Privacy policy

Last updated 11 October 2026

noShorts collects no data about you. The app has no account, no server of its own, no analytics and no advertising. Nothing you do in it is sent to the people who make it.

What stays on your iPhone

The app stores a few things locally so that it works. None of them leave the device.

• Your settings. Which feeds you chose to hide.
• Time spent. How long each network was open in noShorts on each of the last 14 days, to show “12m today” on the home screen.
• Website data. Cookies and cached files that the networks' websites save when you sign in to them, the same as they would in Safari. They are kept in the app's own storage.
• Your Screen Time choice. If you block apps, iOS gives noShorts anonymous tokens for the apps you picked. When you tap a blocked app, iOS tells the noShorts block screen that app's name so it can be shown. Neither is stored anywhere else or sent anywhere.

You can erase the website data at any time in the app under Settings › “Sign out everywhere and clear data”. Deleting the app removes everything.

The networks you open

noShorts shows you the real websites of Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, Snapchat, Facebook and X. When you use them, you are dealing with those companies directly: you sign in on their pages, your password goes only to them, and they collect and use data under their own privacy policies, just as they do in a browser.

noShorts changes how those pages look on your device by hiding parts of them. It does not read your messages, posts or passwords, and it does not copy anything from the pages to anywhere else.

Links that leave a network

A link to another website opens in an in-app Safari view. That website receives the same information it would if you opened it in Safari.

Screen Time

Blocking apps is optional and uses Apple's Screen Time on your own device, with your permission. Your choice of apps is handled by iOS and is never shared with noShorts's developers or with anyone else.

Children

noShorts does not collect personal information from anyone, including children. The networks it opens set their own age requirements.

Changes

If this policy changes, the new version will be published on this page with a new date. The full history is public in the project's source repository.

Contact

Questions about privacy can be raised as an issue on GitHub.