What happens to your Escape data when you delete the app?
With most apps, deleting them from your phone does not delete you from the company. Your account and your data sit in their database until you go find the delete-account page, if there is one. Escape is different, because there was never a copy on our side to leave behind. Here is exactly what happens when you delete it, and the two things that do not vanish on their own.
What gets removed
Everything Escape stores, your streak and attempt history, journal entries, voice notes, reflections, your custom blocklist, the apps you selected, notification preferences, your PIN, and your onboarding answers, is stored locally on your device. Uninstalling the app deletes all of it from your phone. If you want to wipe it without removing the app, Settings then Delete all my data clears it immediately. Either way, the on-device data is gone.
Why there is nothing on our side to delete
We never had a server copy. There is no account, no profile, and no user database, so there is no lingering “you” on our end after the app is gone. Unlike a typical app, there is no delete-account step to hunt for and no profile quietly kept for later. When Escape is off your phone, the part we could have held never existed in the first place.
The two things that do not vanish on their own
Being honest about the edges. First, iCloud. If you turned on iCloud sync, the text-synced subset of your data, journal text and streak, not voice audio, stays in your own iCloud account until you remove it from another device or in your iCloud settings. It is your iCloud, we cannot touch it, but deleting the app from one phone does not clear it from your iCloud. Second, your subscription. Deleting the app does not cancel it. Billing lives with Apple, and you cancel in your Apple subscription settings.
How to leave completely
The full exit is short. Delete the app, or use Settings then Delete all my data first if you want to watch it clear. If you used iCloud sync, open your iCloud settings and remove the Escape data there. If you had a subscription, cancel it in your Apple settings. That is the entire footprint, and it is small on purpose, because we kept almost nothing off your device. How the subscription stays anonymous through all of this is covered in how Escape handles payments without your identity.
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