Privacy
Last updated: August 31, 2026
aBitBetterKeyboard is an iOS keyboard. This page explains what leaves your phone, why it leaves, and how long it is kept.
What stays on your phone
Typing, suggestions, your personal dictionary, and saved copy clips are stored on your iPhone. The keyboard works without Full Access.
What is sent when you ask for AI
Cloud AI is off until you explicitly allow it in the app. You can turn it off again at any time in Settings. When it is off, text and audio are not sent for AI processing.
Cloud AI features are available only to adults 18 or older. The app asks you to confirm this before cloud processing can be enabled.
When you tap an AI action, the selected or copied text needed for that action is sent to our Google Cloud Run backend and then to Google Vertex AI. When you use cloud dictation, the recorded WAV audio is sent through the same path. These actions are never run in the background on what you type. Screen recording is disabled in the current release, so no screen image is sent.
The app also sends an Apple App Attest proof and a pseudonymous device identifier. These are used only to reject fake clients and limit abuse of the service.
Storage and retention
Our backend has no database. It does not write AI prompts, results, audio, or images to storage or logs. It holds them in memory only long enough to answer the request. We disable Vertex AI's optional project-wide memory cache. Google may still temporarily retain prompts for abuse monitoring under its service terms. Google processes the request as our cloud service provider under the Google Cloud Data Processing Addendum. Google states that it will not use customer data to train or fine-tune AI models without permission. We do not use this content to train our own models.
Analytics
The app counts how far setup gets, whether Full Access and the keyboard were confirmed, and whether you come back to the app. Each event includes a random install identifier, the app and iOS versions, and a timestamp. It never includes a keystroke, correction, dictated word, AI input or answer, contact, or screen content. The keyboard and broadcast extensions send no analytics. No third-party analytics software is included.
Accepted analytics events are kept in Google Cloud Logging for 30 days. You can turn analytics off or reset the random identifier in Settings. Resetting prevents future events from being connected to the old identifier; older events expire automatically after 30 days.
Your choices and deletion
You can use the keyboard without Full Access, avoid cloud actions, turn analytics off, clear learned words and copy history in the app, or uninstall the app to remove its local data. The app has no user account and the backend keeps no user-content record to delete.
No sale, advertising, or tracking
We do not sell personal data, use it for advertising, track you across other companies' apps or websites, or use your content to train our own models.
Contact
aBitBetterKeyboard is published by Nitai Aharoni. For support, privacy questions, or a data request, email nitaiaharoni1@gmail.com.