Know where your Things are saved.

Use your saved Things offline.

You can open your saved Things without an internet connection. The app turns speech into text on your device. It may need a connection to download English speech files before the first recording.

The app checks descriptions and photos on your device. Apple Intelligence features depend on your device and its settings. You can enter a Thing's name and location yourself if needed.

The app asks for microphone access when you use voice recording. It asks for camera access when you use the camera. The photo picker lets you choose photos without granting access to your whole library.

Use iCloud sync.

1. Sign in to the same Apple account on each device.
2. Allow WhereThingy to use iCloud in your device's Settings app.
3. Connect the devices to the internet.
4. Open WhereThingy's Settings. Check the message under Your Things.

Changes sync through your private iCloud account when available. Sync can take time. If iCloud is unavailable, your local Things remain available.

The status message reports iCloud availability or recent activity. Check the other device before relying on a change being there.

See what the app keeps.

• Saved words: the text you save, including text from speech, stays with the entry.
• Saved photos: photos you save in WhereThingy stay with the entry.
• History: each Thing keeps its saved locations and changes.
• Voice recordings: the app keeps the text from speech. It does not save the audio.

Open a Thing to see History and Saved words and photos. Entries that need more details appear under Needs attention on Things.

Choose whether to share usage analytics.

Usage analytics tell the developer which features people use. Sharing is optional and off by default. These events exclude your Things, searches, photos, and recordings.

1. Open Settings in WhereThingy.
2. Find Privacy.
3. Turn Share Anonymous Analytics on or off.

Turning it off stops new collection. It also stops sending events from this device and clears events waiting to be sent. Events already sent are not removed.

Delete a Thing or your library.

To delete one Thing:

1. Open the Thing.
2. Tap …, then Delete.
3. Read the message. Tap Delete Thing to confirm.

This removes the Thing, its history, and its tag links. Words and photos shared with other Things or pending choices stay.

To delete the whole library:

1. Open Settings.
2. Under Your Things, tap Delete All Library Data.
3. Read the message. Tap Delete All Library Data to confirm.

This removes Things, history, photos, saved words, unfinished entries, tag links, and unfinished voice drafts. Your purchases and preferences stay.

Deletion cannot be undone. Changes sync to other devices through iCloud when available. Check those devices separately.

If you just saved the wrong entry, tap Undo on its save summary instead. This removes that entry and its changes.

One-time unlocks.

You can save up to 10 Things for free. There is no subscription. Open Settings and find One-time unlocks:

• Unlimited Things removes the 10-Thing limit. Entries stopped by the limit wait under Needs attention.
• NFC Unlock unlocks tag setup, renaming, and links to Things on supported devices. Physical stickers or cards are sold separately.
• Everything Bundle includes Unlimited Things and NFC. If you already own one feature, choose the remaining individual unlock instead.

Scanning and viewing existing NFC tags do not require the NFC unlock. To set up a tag, open Things and choose NFC Tags. For setup instructions, open Settings → Help. Expand More help, then tap NFC tags.

To restore a purchase, sign in to the Apple account you used to buy it. Then tap Restore purchases under One-time unlocks.