Where your readings are stored and how to delete them

Where your readings are stored

Your readings, profiles, tags and reminders are stored in the app's own storage on your phone. You do not need an account, and the app has no server of its own where readings are kept. Android keeps this storage apart from other apps, but the app does not encrypt it separately. A screen lock on your phone protects it.

If you uninstall the app, Android deletes this storage with all readings. Make a backup or export first; see Move your readings to a new phone.

What leaves the phone, and when

• Google Drive backup, when you switch it on: all profiles with their readings, tags, saved filters and reminders go to a hidden area of your own Google Drive, about once a day. See Google Drive backup. Google Play version only.
• Health Connect sync, when you switch it on: the blood pressure and pulse of the synced profile are written to Health Connect on your phone, where other apps you allow can read them. See Health Connect. Google Play version only.
• Files you export or send: the PDF report, the CSV file and the summary for another app leave the phone only when you tap Share, Save or Open, and only to the place you choose.
• Weather: if you allow the app to use your location, it sends your approximate location to the weather service OpenWeatherMap when you save a reading, to get the current weather. Your readings are not sent. See Record the weather with your readings.
• Voice input: what you say is recognised by the speech service of your phone.
• Usage statistics and crash reports: the Google Play version uses Google Analytics for Firebase to count which screens and functions are used, and Firebase Crashlytics to report crashes. The app does not put your reading values into the usage statistics. A crash report contains technical details of the error and the app's recent log. The Huawei AppGallery version sends no usage statistics; it reports crashes to Huawei.
• Ads and purchases: the free version shows ads from Google's ad service (Huawei's in the AppGallery version). Payments for Premium are handled by Google Play or AppGallery; the app only learns whether Premium is active.

The monitor display scanner reads the picture on the phone. The picture is not sent anywhere.

Delete your data

• One reading: see Change or delete a reading.

• All readings of one profile:

  1. Tap Other, scroll down to the section Miscellaneous and tap Settings.

  2. Under Data settings, tap Erase data.

  3. The app asks This action will erase all your data! Are sure you want to continue? Tap OK.

  This deletes the readings of the selected profile only. The profile and its reminders stay. It cannot be undone.

• A profile with all its readings and reminders: see Track readings for several family members.

• Everything on the phone: uninstall the app, or in the phone's Settings, open Apps, find the app and clear its storage.

• Backups in Google Drive: in Data backup, tap the bin icon next to each backup. To stop new backups, sign out: tap your account at the top of Other, then Sign Out.

• Copies in Health Connect: deleting in this app does not delete them there. Tap Sync data with Health Connect, then View records, and delete them in Health Connect.

• Files you exported or sent: delete them where you saved them, and ask the people or apps you sent them to.

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