Privacy choices

Delete inside the app

Open You → Settings → Delete account. Read the deletion summary, type DELETE and confirm the final destructive action.

Once the server confirms deletion, otherthing clears the local account container and resets the session. The hosted operation removes the account, owned records, private photo storage and public avatar, subject to short-lived operational backups and legal obligations.

Deleting hosted images does not remove copies already saved by other people or immediately clear every browser and delivery cache.

Public Thing records are capability-gated and are not available in every app version. When supported, the app explains before you save a new Thing that its chosen name, rendered image, Met details and current value may be shown in public profile or post contexts. A Thing in a new Session post is public; earlier participant-only Session posts keep their audience. Price paid, receipt images and source images remain private.

An app update does not make an older private record public or copy its name or image into a public projection. We will ask separately before changing the audience of an existing record. Do not treat an older record as public unless the app gives you that explicit choice.

Profile shelf

In versions with this control, open a Thing's options and choose Hide from profile. This removes it from your profile shelf and shared use days. Its public record and existing posts stay available. Choose Show on your profile from the same menu to restore it.

Use entries

Use entries are private by default. Show my uses, on You, is off unless you turn it on. When on, signed-in members who have completed membership can see only days within the last 13 weeks for published Things you own now, excluding hidden Things in versions supporting Hide from profile. Notes, times, places and linked posts stay private. Turn the switch off to hide those days at once. Delete an entry from its Entry sheet; entries are also deleted with the Thing or your account.

Review the audience and safe-copy disclosure before publishing. Public posts can be read by guests and members. New Session posts and their photographs are public; earlier participant-only posts remain limited to confirmed participants and the organiser. Where a withdrawal control is offered, use it on your own shared photograph.

If you cannot withdraw content yourself, contact the operator with the username, content type and enough detail to locate it. Do not send the source photograph.

Open You → Settings → Notifications to enable or disable replies and comments, Session and Conversation updates. You can also change otherthing notification permission in iOS Settings.

Disabling permission does not delete your account. otherthing is designed to unregister the current installation when notification access is disabled through the app.

Session Atlas is available only to confirmed attendees and the organiser while an In-person Session is live. It shares an approximate, short-lived location only after you turn sharing on, and you must share before seeing other current sharers.

Turn sharing off from that Session to remove your current point, or change otherthing location permission in iOS Settings. otherthing does not retain a Session Atlas location history.

Use the member or content menu to block an account or report a profile, photograph, Conversation, reply, comment or Session. Manage existing blocks from You → Settings → Blocked members.

Reports enter a private operator queue. Ordinary members cannot read reports or see who submitted them.

In a version with the on-phone index, open You → Settings → On this phone and choose Find photos made with my Things on this phone. You can also start from a Thing’s Find photos on this phone invitation. Photo Library access is requested only when you turn the index on.

The index counts matching photographs locally. Nothing from it is uploaded or shared. Denying access leaves the other flows working; limited access counts only the photographs you allow. Change access in iOS Settings whenever you choose.

Turning the index off hides its counts and keeps the local index. Choose Forget the index to remove it. Logging out or deleting your account also clears it. These controls do not delete photographs from your Photo Library.

Reference prices are not active yet. If introduced, the app will explain how member-recorded prices form a shared reference and provide a contribution control before activation.

Where available, open You → Settings → Reference prices and turn off Share my recorded prices as an anonymous reference to exclude your recorded prices from the shared calculation. This does not remove prices from your private record. Check that the setting saves; if it fails, the app restores the previous setting and shows an error so you can retry.

In a version with capture in Field mode, the app asks whether Things you capture may be sent to OpenAI to draw pixel art. It asks when you join, before your first capture or in the Pixel art sheet, and nothing is sent automatically until you allow it.

Open You → Settings → Pixel art and turn Pixel art when I capture on or off. Turning it off stops automatic requests for new captures. It does not remove pixel art already drawn; that is removed with the Thing or your account. The setting is kept on the device, so set it on each device you use.

You can correct most profile and member-entered information inside the app. For an access request, a correction you cannot make, a deletion problem or a privacy complaint, contact the operator and identify the request as relating to otherthing.

We may need to verify that the account belongs to you before acting on a request. Do not send passwords, Sign in with Apple credentials or source photographs.