Yoked

Privacy Policy

Last updated: July 25, 2026

Yoked is built to be private by design. We do not run a server that stores your data, we do not have user accounts, and we do not sell information or disclose it for advertising. Limited requests to Apple system services and Open Food Facts are described below.

The short version

  • No account, no sign-up. Yoked doesn't ask for your name, email, or phone number.
  • Local-only app data. Workouts, nutrition logs, progress photos, body-weight history, and coach conversations are stored locally on your devices. Yoked does not store this app data in CloudKit or iCloud, and the local store is excluded from device and iCloud backups.
  • Direct paired-Watch sync. Your current program and workout state can move directly between your paired iPhone and Apple Watch using Apple's WatchConnectivity framework.
  • No tracking, no ads, no analytics. Yoked contains no advertising, no third-party analytics or tracking SDKs, and no advertising identifiers.
  • We never sell your data. Ever.

Information Yoked handles

Health and fitness data

With your permission, Yoked can read workouts, body weight, sleep, and meal calories and nutrients from Apple Health to provide training, nutrition, descriptive sleep summaries, and progress features. It can save completed Yoked workouts, body weights you manually log, and the calories and nutrients of meals you log to Apple Health.

The Apple Watch app can access workout information such as live heart rate and active energy while you run a workout. Apple controls the authorization screen, and you choose which data types to allow. Yoked uses health information only for app functionality, never for advertising.

Apple Health is an Apple-managed system store. Apple may sync Health data according to your Apple settings and policies; Yoked does not copy its local app database into iCloud.

Content you create

Training programs, locally recorded workout history, body-weight history, meals, saved foods, recipes and ingredients, custom meal types, progress photos, and coach conversations are stored locally using Apple's SwiftData. The storage directory, including database sidecars and external photo storage, is marked as excluded from backups. Location and other embedded EXIF metadata are removed when Yoked saves a progress photo.

Deleting and reinstalling Yoked does not restore this local app database from iCloud because Yoked does not put it there.

iPhone and Apple Watch communication

Yoked uses Apple's WatchConnectivity framework to send the current training program and live workout events directly between a paired iPhone and Apple Watch. If one device is temporarily unreachable, Apple's paired-device framework can queue the event for later delivery. Each app keeps only its own local copy. Yoked does not route these records through a developer-operated server or CloudKit.

AI features

Supported AI features use Apple Foundation Models and process on the device. Yoked does not send your prompts, health information, or coach context to a developer-operated or third-party AI service.

Meal-description results are estimates. You review and can edit the result before saving it to your local nutrition log.

Food-data lookups

When you search for a branded food, Yoked sends the search text to Open Food Facts (openfoodfacts.org). When you scan or enter a product barcode, Yoked sends the barcode number. These requests retrieve product names and nutrition facts. Yoked does not attach an account identity, health records, or advertising identifier. Open Food Facts receives normal network request information and handles the request under its own terms and privacy policy.

Permissions Yoked may ask for

  • Apple Health on iPhone — to read workouts, body weight, sleep, and meal nutrition and, when you choose, to save completed workouts, logged body weight, and logged meal nutrition.
  • Apple Health on Apple Watch — for workout sessions, including live heart rate and active energy.
  • Camera — to scan barcodes and take progress photos.
  • Photo Library — through Apple's system picker to choose an existing photo, and when you choose to save a progress photo to your library.
  • Microphone & Speech Recognition — to describe a meal by voice. Recognition runs on the device when supported; otherwise Apple's Speech service may process the audio.
  • Notifications — for rest timers and optional workout or food-log reminders.

You can grant or revoke permissions in Apple Settings. The initial Yoked explanation does not make the decision for you; Apple's system authorization screen controls Apple Health access.

Your control over your data

You can delete individual records in Yoked. To remove all locally stored Yoked app data, delete Yoked from your iPhone and Apple Watch. Because Yoked has no developer database, there is no server-side Yoked account or copy for us to delete.

Deleting Yoked does not automatically remove data that you previously chose to save in Apple Health or Photos. You can review and delete that data in Apple's Health and Photos apps.

Children

Yoked is not directed at children under 13 and does not knowingly collect personal information from children. Automatic protein, calorie, macro, and adult sleep-baseline features are not shown unless a saved birthday confirms the user is at least 18.

Changes to this policy

We will update this policy if Yoked's data practices change and revise the “Last updated” date.

Contact

Questions about privacy? Contact us at support@yoked.pro.