Questions and answers

If you use the cloud backup, your entries are encrypted with your sync password before they leave your phone. The cloud only holds ciphertext. Nobody but you can read it, not Google and not us.

You set the password once and enter it once on every new phone.

Unfortunately we can't reset it, because we never know it. That is the price of nobody being able to read along.

The entries on your phone are not affected. When unlocking, tap "Forgot the password?": the cloud copy is deleted and created again with a new password from the entries on your phone. Anything that was only in the cloud and is no longer on any phone can't be recovered then.

With an account: sign in on the new phone, turn on cloud backup and enter your sync password. Your entries and settings arrive by themselves.

Without an account: in the app, go to Settings, Privacy & backup, create a backup file (ideally with a password) and import it on the new phone. Only the backup file also contains your pictures.

Then the entries are gone, because they were only stored, encrypted, on your phone. Create a backup file first, or sign in and turn on the cloud backup.

No. Pictures stay encrypted on your phone. You can take them along with the backup file, which reliably holds many pictures too.

The analyses are written by Gemini Nano, an AI that runs directly on the phone. So far it is only available on some newer devices, for example recent Pixel and Samsung models. On other phones everything else works as usual.

The first time, the phone may still need to download the model. That can take a few minutes.

No. The AI runs entirely on your phone. Your texts don't leave the device for it.

As soon as you finish an entry for that day. For every seven days in a row you get a restore, so a missed day doesn't end your streak.

Yes, via the calendar. An entry is most valuable while the day is still fresh, though. If a day is more than three days ago, the app reminds you of that.

Check the time in the app's settings and, in the Android settings, whether notifications are allowed for Daily Thread. Some manufacturers stop apps in the background; then it helps to turn off battery optimisation for Daily Thread.

In the app under Settings, Privacy & backup, at the very bottom. It also works without the app: Delete account.