iPhone Journaling App Reportedly On The Way As Apple Doubles Down On Health – SlashGear

While Apple is no doubt trying to be both cutting edge and helpful with its new app, some of the features the company may include are just downright creepy. If the documents seen by the Wall Street Journal are accurate, the app will go above and beyond to develop unique writing prompts for you. This includes gathering data from your phone, and how you’ve used it in the day(s) previous to the entry. The app may spot patterns, as well as changes in a user’s behavior, and use that to create suggestions for journal entries.

The report also hints at an “All Day People Discovery” feature, which logs time spent with friends, co-workers, and presumably anyone else in possession of an iPhone. In terms of privacy, this data supposedly isn’t going to make it into the cloud or onto Apple’s servers. According to the documents, it will be stored on the device itself, and then deleted after four weeks should the prompts not be used.

While this feature may be seen as useful in some cases, it may put others off. Especially given Apple’s complex history when it comes to user data and privacy. If you don’t want your actions and interactions tracked, it is likely you’ll be able to disable this feature and still access the app. Plenty of other iPhone settings can be changed for the sake of user privacy as well.