Frequently asked questions.

Yes. Start Auday on your Apple Watch to keep recording through your day. You choose when to record; the iPhone receives and processes the recordings. All-day or 24/7 describes the intended use, not a guarantee of 24 uninterrupted hours or instant transcripts. Battery, storage and system interruptions can limit coverage. Check the recording indicator, and obtain any notice or consent required before recording others.

Auday first turns your Watch recordings into searchable text on your iPhone. When enabled, body states from Apple Health and places recorded by your Watch are matched to the relevant time ranges. With your AI provider configured, these signals can add context to Highlights, summaries, daily reflections and Chat.

For example, a discussion may be shown alongside a walk, a recorded area or a period of elevated physiological stress. This helps you revisit the moment with more context. It does not prove that the discussion caused stress, identify a speaker or change what the transcript says.

Yes. Auday compares suitable readings with your own recent history. For each day, it looks back at up to 14 preceding days. An initial heart-rate or HRV baseline needs enough usable measurements across at least two earlier days; the two signals can become usable separately. You do not have to wait a full 14 days if suitable history is already available in Apple Health.

If there is little or no history, the first few days are a period of gathering enough evidence. Sparse readings or gaps can make this take longer. Regular Watch wear and health synchronization help make data available. Reaching the minimum enables a comparison; it does not mean the estimate becomes accurate on a particular day. Recording and transcription work while this history builds.

No. In Settings → Body & location data, you can enable Body data and Location data separately. Health access is granted on your iPhone; location access is granted on your Watch. Recording, transcription and local search work without either option.

When enabled, attached context is included in relevant AI requests to your configured provider, including automatic reviews you enable. Read the Privacy Policy for the data and recipients involved.

Heart-rate variability (HRV) describes variation in the time between heartbeats. It is different from heart rate, which counts beats per minute, and it is not a direct measurement of psychological stress.

Auday currently reads the SDNN form of HRV from Apple Health, expressed in milliseconds. Apple Watch can automatically record these measurements and sync them to your iPhone. Availability depends on your Watch, settings, movement, signal quality and synchronization. Auday reads the available records; it does not measure beat-to-beat intervals itself or manufacture HRV between measurements.

Auday’s own on-device algorithm compares suitable heart-rate and HRV readings with your personal baseline. It considers whether you were active, asleep or recovering from exercise, as well as how recent and consistent the evidence is. A heart-rate rise alone is not automatically labeled stress.

When fresh HRV is unavailable, repeated suitable heart-rate readings can sometimes support a lower-confidence estimate. When there is not enough evidence, no stress label is added. The result is a clue about physiological strain for revisiting your day, not a measured emotion or an Apple-provided stress score.

It updates as new measurements become available to Auday, rather than through continuous stress measurement on your Watch. Readings must reach Apple Health on your iPhone, and Auday needs an opportunity to process them. Background delivery, a locked phone and connection delays can mean labels appear later.

There is no guaranteed second-by-second or fixed-minute update interval, and Auday does not provide a live stress monitor. Labels refer to the time supported by the readings, not the time they arrived. Without fresh evidence, Auday does not invent a new rise or fall or fill every gap.

Stress labels are estimates, and Auday has not established a clinically validated accuracy rate or a day after installation when they become reliably accurate. A personal baseline makes comparisons specific to you; it does not remove measurement limits or explain why your body changed.

“Feeling good” is the display label for estimated lower physiological strain. It does not mean the app detected happiness. Likewise, elevated stress does not diagnose anxiety or establish that a person or conversation upset you. Use these labels as context for your own reflection.

A missing label can mean that there was no notable supported change, the baseline is still developing, readings were sparse or delayed, permissions are unavailable, or the feature was off. It is not proof that you were calm or that your health was normal.

Check Body data in Auday, review Auday’s access in Apple Health, and allow your Watch records to sync. Reopen Auday on an unlocked iPhone so available data can be processed. “Available” in Settings means health records can be read; it does not guarantee enough evidence for every kind of label.

Recorded workouts, steps and sleep help separate activity from stress. Auday avoids treating exercise, walking, sleep and the period just after a workout as ordinary stress readings. A recovery label is a contextual estimate, not a measured recovery percentage.

Recent sleep can also provide background when AI reviews your day. Short sleep does not automatically create a high-stress label, and a sleep observation from the previous night does not mean you were asleep during a later conversation.

With Location data enabled and permission granted, your Watch records available locations while Auday is actively recording. Your iPhone groups them into approximate places and uses Apple’s geocoding service to look up readable street or area names. This lookup sends coordinates to Apple. Tapping a label opens the saved location in Apple Maps.

A label describes the area supported by the observations. It is not proof that you entered a particular building, and it may be missing or approximate when positioning or network access is limited. Auday does not promise an exact route or uninterrupted location coverage.

The setting stops new collection or attachment as applicable. Earlier labels stay with their records and can still be included when those records are used in AI requests. Saved summaries, Highlights, remembered facts and Chat history are kept.

Turning the setting back on resumes attachment going forward; it does not fill the interval when it was off. The switch does not erase past context, delete Apple Health records or recall information already sent to a provider.

Some iPhone calls and alerts, Siri and other system interruptions can affect Watch recording. If it has stopped, reopen Auday on your Watch and tap to start again. The Watch Recording Tips in Your Watch can help reduce interruptions.

Auday normally prepares recordings for automatic sync every 15 minutes, and may prepare them sooner at an hour boundary or when recording is paused or ended. Transfer timing depends on the connection and Apple’s background scheduling. Keep the devices nearby and open Auday on your iPhone if it is waiting.

Saved recordings can wait on your Watch until the phone confirms receipt. The iPhone transcribes received audio and builds its local search index. Continuous recording does not mean live word-by-word transcription; processing can continue when the app next has time to run.

In one local Auday team test, an Apple Watch Series 11 (GPS) recorded continuously for 12 hours 30 minutes with the screen off and no charging. Battery went from 100% to 49%: 51 percentage points used, with 49% remaining.

The test ran from September 18, 2026 at 12:21 to September 19 at 00:51, on model MEUG4CH/B with watchOS 26.6 (23U67). It is one observed result, not a guaranteed runtime. Battery health, display use, connectivity, other activity and enabled health or location features can change consumption. It does not establish the same result with every optional feature enabled or prove 24-hour battery life.

At 8 recorded hours a day, original audio uses about 800 MB for 7 days or 3.5 GB for 30 days. Recording 24 hours a day uses roughly three times as much. Models and text need additional space. Your storage-duration setting removes older audio while keeping transcripts, summaries and other text.

Auday can omit audio storage for intervals it confidently identifies as extremely quiet, while preserving their place in the recording timeline. This is not a speech-only filter: sounds and background activity can still be kept. Uncertain intervals and protected moments around Marks are retained.

A preserved silent interval is different from a recording interruption or missing audio. It can play as silence for its original duration, but it has no saved sound to recover. Spoken content still needs to be captured and transcribed to become searchable.

Auday has no server copy of your archive, and the archive is excluded from iCloud and computer device backups. Do not rely on reinstalling the app or restoring a device backup to bring it back. Preserve important information separately before removing the app or replacing your phone.

Apple Health has its own iCloud and sharing settings. Those are separate from Auday’s archive. Removing old audio through Auday’s retention setting keeps saved text, but that audio can no longer be played.

Auday currently supports Chinese and English transcription. It does not identify or separate individual speakers. The on-device pipeline is optimized for a small memory footprint, with trade-offs in recognition features. Noise and overlapping voices can affect accuracy.

Your Watch records audio. Your iPhone stores it, transcribes it, creates the search index, runs semantic search and derives body-state context locally. Auday has no servers that receive your archive.

Summaries, Highlights, daily reflections and Chat use the AI provider you configure. Relevant text and attached context go directly to that endpoint; these features do not send original audio. Place-name lookup and opening Apple Maps use Apple services. “Local” therefore does not mean that every feature works without external processing.

The dedicated context sent with relevant records contains body or activity labels, approximate place names, time ranges and uncertainty information. It does not include raw heart-rate or HRV values, HealthKit sample identifiers, exact coordinates or a complete location trail.

This is not automatic anonymization. Your transcript, questions, profile or saved text may itself mention a health condition, an address or someone’s identity. The selected provider receives the text needed for the feature, including that information when present.

Recording on your Watch, on-device transcription, reading saved records, playing retained audio and local search do not require an AI provider. Transfers still require a connection between your devices, and transcription or indexing needs time to run on your iPhone. Body labels can be calculated locally when the necessary health records are available.

New AI results require your configured endpoint to be reachable. Readable place-name lookup uses Apple’s network service. Existing saved AI results remain readable without generating a new request.

Yes. Automatic AI features you enable can review available transcripts and produce saved results without a separate tap for each request. These requests can contain attached body and place context and may incur provider charges. Connection checks and model-list requests also contact the configured service.

Use the automatic-processing controls to manage those features. Delete AI Settings removes the saved configuration and credentials; it does not erase earlier results, cancel your provider account or delete data already received by that provider.

The developer cannot remotely browse the archive on your devices. If you contact support, the developer receives the message and any attachments you choose to send.

Your AI provider can process the content sent to its endpoint. Its retention, training, processing locations and account settings apply; bringing your own API key does not guarantee zero retention. Check the provider’s policies before using sensitive content.

No. The Local Privacy Edition is a one-time purchase, including updates released for this edition. Your own AI provider may charge for API usage. Future online services may be sold separately and will be optional.

Your Watch records, then your iPhone transcribes and builds a local search index. With your AI provider configured, Auday can turn available transcripts into Highlights, summaries and daily reflections, and help you revisit them in Chat.

Each bar represents an hour. AI scores the information density of that hour’s transcript: how much meaningful detail, such as facts, ideas, plans or decisions, it contains. A higher bar means richer material to revisit, not a longer recording or a more productive hour. Hours still being processed are not a low score.

Hourly review starts after the hour is complete and its available recordings have been transcribed. It also needs your configured AI provider. Delayed sync, unfinished processing or a provider error can hold it up. An hour without usable speech may have nothing to summarize.

Open a Highlight’s Original words to find the source transcript, then play the nearby audio while it is still stored. A summary is AI’s interpretation; the transcript and original recording help you check the details.

Search helps you find saved words and related meanings using your local index. Chat uses your chosen AI provider to answer questions with relevant records and remembered facts. Check the linked sources when a detail matters.

Saved facts give AI helpful background, such as your preferences, plans and relationships, when reviewing your day or answering in Chat. Review them in Remembered facts. Moving one to Inactive stops its future use without rewriting earlier summaries or conversations.

A Mark saves the moment you tap on your Watch. It tells AI to pay extra attention to the conversation around that time; it does not select a sentence or guarantee a Highlight. AI can also find Highlights without a Mark.