Trigger Keeper

Privacy Policy

Last updated: October 2026

Trigger Keeper is a hands-free camera app for iPhone. You choose a trigger word, prop your phone up, and the camera takes a photo whenever someone says the word, or when everyone in the frame smiles. This policy explains exactly what the app does with your camera, microphone, voice, and photos.

The short version: everything happens on your device. Trigger Keeper has no servers, no accounts, and no analytics. The developer cannot see your photos, hear your audio, or access any of your data.

Microphone and Speech Recognition

To listen for your trigger word, Trigger Keeper uses your microphone together with Apple's on-device speech recognition.

• Speech recognition runs entirely on your device. Your audio is not sent to Apple, to the developer, or to any third party.
• Audio is used only, and in the moment, to detect your trigger word. It is never recorded, saved, or stored.
• The microphone is active only while a listening session is running — after you tap the play button, and until you stop, the session times out, or you leave the app. Trigger Keeper does not listen in the background.

Camera and Photos

• The camera is used to show the viewfinder, to take photos, and, while a listening session is running, to detect smiles. Smile detection looks at the camera image on your device, in the moment. The camera feed is never recorded as video, saved, or sent anywhere.
• Photos are captured only when you trigger them — by saying your trigger word or smiling during a listening session, or by tapping the shutter or pressing a volume button yourself. You can turn smile detection off in the trigger word settings.
• Captured photos are saved to your device's Photos library and to a dedicated album named "Trigger Keeper." These photos live in your Photos library, under your control. Because they are saved to Photos rather than inside the app, deleting Trigger Keeper does not delete the photos it has already saved — you manage them in the Photos app like any other photo.
• Photo-library access is used only to save the photos Trigger Keeper captures, to maintain its album, and to show that album in the app's gallery. The app does not read, browse, or upload your other photos.

No Data Collection

Trigger Keeper does not collect, access, or receive any of your data. There are no servers, no accounts, and no cloud sync. The developer has no visibility into how you use the app, what your trigger word is, or what photos you take.

Your Settings

Your preferences — your trigger word, recent trigger words, capture mode, flash, aspect ratio, and smile detection settings — are stored locally on your device, along with a count of photos taken and when the last one was taken. That count is used only to decide when to show Apple's standard "rate this app" prompt. None of this ever leaves your device. Uninstalling the app removes it.

No Analytics or Tracking

Trigger Keeper contains no analytics, tracking, advertising, or crash-reporting code.

Permissions, and Changing Your Mind

Trigger Keeper asks for camera, microphone, speech recognition, and photo-library access so it can do what it does. You can grant or revoke any of these at any time in the iOS Settings app, under Trigger Keeper. If you revoke a permission, the related feature stops working until you grant it again; the app will point you to Settings when this happens.

Children's Privacy

Trigger Keeper does not collect any personal information from anyone, including children.

Changes to This Policy

If this policy changes, the updated version will be posted here with a new "Last updated" date.

Contact

Questions, feedback, or issues? Reach out anytime at copycopyapp@gmail.com.