Settings on iPhone

The Settings tab is where you manage permissions, sync, sign-in, and get help. Here's what each section does.

On-device access

The three iOS permissions Groupthink uses, each with its current status:

• Microphone — record in-person conversations from the Interactions tab.
• Calendar — show today's meetings in your Daily Overview.
• Contacts — seed the people you keep from your phone's contacts.

A green check means it's on; a red mark means it's off. Tap a row that's off to jump to the app's page in iOS Settings and turn it on. More on this in Privacy and on-device permissions.

Sync

Shows whether an iCloud account is signed into this phone, and what that means for you. When iCloud is available, your captures and people back up to your private iCloud database and sync across your own devices — Groupthink can't read it. When it isn't, the app still works offline. See Sync and signing in.

Account

Sign in to connect your Groupthink account and bring your relationships onto the phone:

• Sign in with Google — unlocks the Overview and People tabs and lets captures file to people's timelines.
• Sign in with Microsoft — the same, using your Outlook account.

When you're signed in, this section shows your account, two export options, and a Sign out button.

Exporting your data

Your record is yours and leaves with you. Both exports are free on every account:

• Export your data — a zip of everything Groupthink holds for you: relationships, meetings, notes, and the intelligence built on them.
• Export my captures — just the prompts and voice notes you've captured, as one Markdown file per day plus a captures.jsonl. Readable by you, parseable by any tool.

Tap either row, then Email me the export. We assemble the file on the server and email a download link to the address you're signed in with, usually within a few minutes. The link is single-use and expires, so open it on the device you want the file on. If you ask again while one is still being prepared, you get the same export rather than a second one.

Automatic sync of your history to a git repo isn't set up from the phone — do that from Settings in the web or desktop app.

Calendar connections

Options to add more calendar accounts into your Overview (a second Google calendar, or Outlook). These are marked Coming soon and aren't active yet — today the Overview uses the calendar on this device.

Labs

Experimental features you can opt into:

• Heart rate during recordings — reads your heart rate from Apple Health for the length of a recording so you can see how a conversation landed. Off by default; asks for Health access the first time you turn it on.

Labs features may change or go away as we iterate.

Help

• Report a problem — opens an email to our team with your app version already filled in.
• Privacy policy — opens the full policy in Safari.

About

Shows the app version and build number — useful to include when you report a problem.

Need a hand? Email support@groupthink.com.