BigKeys Privacy Policy
Last updated 18 August 2026
BigKeys collects nothing. No accounts, no analytics, no advertising, no crash reporting, no third-party code of any kind. Nothing you type is recorded, transmitted, or seen by anyone but you.
That is not a promise you have to take on trust. It is enforced by the way the app is built, and you can check the most important part yourself in under a minute.
BigKeys never asks for “Allow Full Access”
iOS requires a keyboard to request a permission called Full Access before it can send anything off your device. BigKeys never requests it, and cannot be made to: the switch simply is not there.
Check for yourself: Settings → General → Keyboard → Keyboards → BigKeys. Any keyboard that could send your typing somewhere would show an “Allow Full Access” switch there. BigKeys does not.
Without Full Access, iOS blocks the keyboard from reaching the network at all. It is not that BigKeys chooses not to send your keystrokes anywhere — it is that the operating system will not let it.
What stays on your iPhone
Three things are stored, all of them on your device only:
- Your settings — key size, layout, colours, letter style, and which languages you use. Stored so the keyboard can read what you chose in the app.
- Word counts, if you leave word learning on. To suggest the words you actually use, BigKeys counts how often you type each word. The counts live in the keyboard’s own storage on your iPhone. Words containing numbers or symbols are never kept, which excludes passwords, card numbers, addresses and codes. You can switch word learning off in Settings at any time.
- Whether you have finished setup, so the app does not walk you through it again.
None of this is backed up to us, synced, or shared. There is nowhere for it to go.
Deleting everything
Delete the BigKeys app. iOS removes its storage with it, including every stored word count and every setting. Nothing survives, because nothing was ever kept anywhere else.
Passwords
iOS never allows any third-party keyboard — BigKeys included — into a password field. Apple’s own keyboard appears instead. This is enforced by the operating system and cannot be changed by us or by any other keyboard app.
Children
BigKeys collects no data from anyone, of any age.
Changes
If this policy ever changes, the date at the top changes with it. Because the app collects nothing, any change would be a change to the app itself, and would appear in its release notes.