Toggle is an iPhone app that opens Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, X, Threads, Reddit, LinkedIn, Facebook and Snapchat inside one app, with the parts built to keep you scrolling switched off. Using it means signing in to those services inside someone else's app, so "is it safe" is a fair question. It has three parts: where your logins live, what Toggle can see, and what leaves your iPhone. Everything below comes from the privacy policy, updated October 24, 2026, and is stated the way the policy states it.
Your logins go to the services, not to Toggle
You sign in to each service directly, on its own login page, inside Toggle. Their cookies stay on your iPhone, the way they would in Safari. Toggle has no account system: there is no Toggle sign-up, no Toggle password and no Toggle server that holds your Instagram or Google session. If you ever want it gone, Settings → Erase all data erases everything Toggle stores and signs you out of every service in it. Deleting the app does the same.
The policy lists what Toggle stores on your iPhone and sends to no one: the first name you enter, if you choose to; your answers and settings (how long you scroll, your daily goal, why you want to cut back, and which parts of each app you hide); and your logins to the services.
What Toggle can and can't see
Toggle's rules run inside each page on your iPhone, the way a browser extension does: hide this part, open on that page, draw this comment list natively. To do that they read the page on the screen, and that is where it ends. Toggle keeps no record of what you read, type or send in a service, and sends none of it anywhere. The policy puts it as: the analytics events "carry no name, account, answers, settings or anything you do in the services you open in Toggle", and Toggle "never shares your answers, settings, the services you use in it or anything you do in them."
How Toggle works explains the mechanics of those rules.
What leaves your iPhone, exactly
Don't read this page as "nothing leaves the phone". Three things do, and two of them have an off switch.
| What | Goes to | What it contains | Turn it off |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anonymous usage analytics | PostHog | Which onboarding steps are reached, how you heard about Toggle (if you tell us), when the subscription screen is shown and when a subscription starts; device model, iOS version, app version; an identifier created for this install; an approximate location (city and country) PostHog derives from the connection | Settings → Share usage data |
| Ad measurement | Meta's app events SDK | Events such as the app being opened and a subscription starting; device model, iOS version, time zone; an identifier the SDK creates for this install. No advertising identifier (IDFA) | Settings → Share usage data |
| Notifications, only if you turn them on for an app | Toggle's relay (hosted on Fly.io), then Apple's push service | A random identifier for this install, your iPhone's push token and the push addresses for the apps you turned on. The notifications themselves pass through encrypted | Turn notifications off for the app |
| Purchases | Apple | Apple tells the app only whether your subscription is active. Toggle doesn't receive your name, email or payment details | Not applicable |
| Feedback you send | Toggle (mail forwarded by Forward Email) | Your message, the email address you add (if any) and the device details above | Only sent if you send it |
Toggle has no accounts, never sells your data, doesn't track you across other companies' apps or websites and doesn't collect your advertising identifier (IDFA). Turning off Share usage data changes nothing else: everything in Toggle works the same either way. Data goes only to the providers the policy names (PostHog, Meta, Apple, Fly.io, Vercel and Forward Email), only for the purposes it describes.
What the services see
When you use Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, X, Threads, Reddit, LinkedIn, Facebook or Snapchat inside Toggle, you connect to those services directly and they receive what they would receive in any browser. Their own privacy policies apply. Toggle doesn't send them anything about you, and it blocks many of their ad and tracking requests. You are signed in as yourself, so the messages you send and the posts you make are yours, as usual.
Blocking the real apps: what Apple lets Toggle know
If you let Toggle block the real apps, it uses Apple's Screen Time (Family Controls). Apple gives Toggle only opaque tokens for the apps you choose; Toggle can't see which apps they are or how you use them. That information never leaves your iPhone, and it's never used for advertising or shared with anyone. A blocked app shows a shield with "Open in Toggle". It's self-control, not parental control: the person who set it up can turn it off, and "Unblock for 5 minutes" in Settings gives a short break. The steps are on Block the real apps with Screen Time.
Notifications are encrypted end to end
If you turn on notifications for an app in Toggle, that service's website sends its notifications to Toggle's relay, which passes them to your iPhone through Apple's push service. They pass through still encrypted: the keys to read them stay on your iPhone, so the relay can't see what they say. Turning notifications off for an app, or erasing Toggle's data, removes that app's push address from the relay. LinkedIn has no web push, so Toggle checks LinkedIn's notification count in the background and notifies on a rise. Details on Notifications in Toggle.
Deleting your data
- Settings → Erase all data erases everything Toggle stores and signs you out of every service in it. Deleting the app does the same.
- You can turn off Screen Time access and notifications for Toggle in the iPhone's Settings at any time.
- Toggle holds none of your data apart from emails and feedback you send, the analytics and ad measurement events above, and the relay's push details, none of which are linked to your name. You can ask for access or deletion at hello@toggle.social.
- Toggle isn't directed at children under 13.
The extensions
The free Chrome extension runs entirely in your browser: no account, no tracking, nothing sent anywhere. Toggle for Safari, coming to the Mac App Store, works the same way.
Questions
Does Toggle see my Instagram or Google password?
No. You type it into the service's own login page, the same page you would see in Safari, and the service's cookies are stored on your iPhone. Toggle has no account system and no server that holds your sessions.
Does Toggle collect my data?
Toggle sends anonymous usage analytics (PostHog) and Meta's app events SDK for ad measurement, both with no name, account, answers or settings attached, and both switched off under Settings → Share usage data. Everything in Toggle works the same either way.
Can Toggle see which apps I blocked?
No. Apple's Screen Time gives Toggle only opaque tokens for the apps you choose. Toggle can't see which apps they are or how you use them, and that information never leaves your iPhone.
Can the notification relay read my messages?
No. Notifications pass through the relay still encrypted; the keys to read them stay on your iPhone. The relay stores a random identifier for the install, the iPhone's push token and the push addresses for the apps you turned on.
How do I delete everything Toggle has?
Settings → Erase all data erases everything Toggle stores and signs you out of every service in it; deleting the app does the same. For the analytics and relay records, which carry no name, email hello@toggle.social.
Sources
- Toggle privacy policy (accessed 2026-10-24)
- Toggle: Block Reels on the App Store (accessed 2026-10-24)
- Family Controls, Apple Developer Documentation (accessed 2026-10-24)
- Managed Settings, Apple Developer Documentation (accessed 2026-10-24)
- RFC 8291: Message Encryption for Web Push (accessed 2026-10-24)