⚙️ Reference
Settings
Settings is organised into logical groups. Here is a full reference of every option and what it does.
👤 Account
- Display name — The name shown in your personalised greeting on the Home screen. Tap to edit.
- Email address — The email associated with your account. Shown for reference.
- Inwardly+ — Shows your current subscription status and a link to manage or restore purchases. See the Inwardly+ guide.
🔔 Notifications
- Daily reminder — Toggle push notifications on or off. When enabled, Inwardly sends you a gentle nudge each day to write.
- Reminder time — Tap the time to change when your daily notification is delivered. The default is 8:00 PM.
Notifications not appearing? Check that Inwardly has notification permission in iOS Settings → Notifications → Inwardly, and that Do Not Disturb is not active for that time. See the troubleshooting guide for more.
🎨 Appearance
- Theme — Choose between Light, Dark, or System. System follows your iOS appearance setting automatically.
🔒 Data & Privacy
- Your data — Informational: confirms that all entries are encrypted on-device before storage.
- AI training — Informational: confirms that your entries are never used to train AI models.
- App Lock — Toggle Face ID / Touch ID requirement to open the app.
- Share Analytics — Toggle whether anonymous usage analytics are sent to help improve the app. No journal content is ever included.
- Recovery Passphrase — Set or update your encryption key recovery passphrase.
- Sync encryption key — Restore your encryption key from a backup on another device (only visible when a backup exists).
- Export My Data — Download all your journal entries as JSON or plain text.
For a deeper explanation of how encryption and recovery passphrases work, see the encrypted diary app guide.
🚪 Sign Out & Delete Account
- Sign Out — Signs you out of your account on this device. Your encrypted entries remain on the server.
- Delete Account — Permanently deletes your account and all associated data from Inwardly's servers. This is a two-step confirmation and cannot be undone. Export your data first if you want a local copy.
Account deletion is permanent. Deleting your account removes all your entries, settings, and subscription data from our servers immediately. This action cannot be reversed.
