Permissions Atween Asks For
This page lists exactly the permissions declared in the shipped iOS and Android projects — no more and no fewer. A permissions page that lists more than the app declares is itself a misstatement, so this one is kept to what the manifests contain.
Each permission is requested at the moment you use the feature that needs it, never at launch. You can change your mind at any time in your operating system's settings. Refusing any of them still leaves you able to write, read, delete, export, close your account, complain, and reach safety resources.
1. iPhone
| Permission | When it is asked for | What happens if you refuse |
|---|---|---|
| Microphone | While you hold to talk. The recording is transcribed into text on your phone, and you can edit the transcript before accepting it. | Type instead. Nothing else is affected. |
| Camera | When you open the camera inside Atween to take a picture. The picture is previewed and edited on your phone. | Choose an existing photograph instead, or type. |
| Add to photo library | Only when you press save on a share card, to write that one image into your library. | The card stays in the app. Nothing else is affected. |
Atween does not ask for permission to read your photo library, and cannot browse it.
When you choose photographs to bring into Atween, you do so in your phone's own picker, which runs outside the app. Atween receives only the items you selected. That is why no read permission appears above.
2. Android
| Permission | When it is asked for | What happens if you refuse |
|---|---|---|
| RECORD_AUDIO (microphone) | While you hold to talk. The recording is transcribed into text on your phone, and you can edit the transcript before accepting it. | Type instead. Nothing else is affected. |
| INTERNET | Granted at install. Needed to reach the service at all. | Not refusable; it is not a runtime permission. |
| ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE | Granted at install. Used to tell you when you are offline rather than failing silently. | Not refusable; it is not a runtime permission. |
Taking a picture inside the app is currently available on iPhone only; the Android build declares no camera permission. Selecting photographs on Android uses the system picker, which needs no permission from us.
3. What Atween never asks for
These are absent from both manifests. That is checkable, and it is meant to be.
- Location, precise or approximate
- Contacts
- Calendar
- Health data
- Bluetooth and local network
- Call logs and reading your messages
- Reading your photo library
- Notifications — Atween sends no push notifications
- Face ID, Touch ID or Android biometric unlock
- App-tracking permission — Atween does no cross-app tracking, so it has nothing to ask for
4. Where each of these is processed
Two of the permissions above cover material this version handles on the phone itself. If a future version changes that, this page and the Privacy Policy will say so before it ships.
- The microphone feeds a speech model that runs on your phone. What this version of Atween sends to the service is the transcript you have seen and accepted, not the recording.
- Pictures you take or select are previewed and edited on your phone. This version of Atween has no path that sends an image to the service; what it saves is the text you write.
5. Changes
If a future version needs a permission not listed here, the Privacy Policy, the list of what Atween collects, the Third-Party Information Sharing List and this page will be updated before it is requested, and the reason will be explained where you are asked.