Fake Messages privacy policy
Last updated November 10, 2026
The short version
- What you write, and the names and photos you add, stay on your phone. We cannot see them.
- We run no server and there is no account. We collect nothing about you ourselves.
- The free version shows ads from Google, which collects some data to show them. The upgrade removes the ads and that collection with them.
Fake Messages is an iPhone app made by Senpai Media. This page says what the app does with your data.
What stays on your phone
The messages you write, the sender names, the sender photos and your schedule are saved in a file on your iPhone, inside the app. They are never sent to us or to anyone else. We cannot see them. Deleting the app deletes them.
- Contacts and photos. If you choose a sender from your contacts or a picture from your photo library, you do it through Apple’s own picker. The app receives only the one contact or photo you tap. It does not read the rest of your contacts or your library, and it does not upload what you picked.
- Notifications. A scheduled message is delivered by your iPhone itself as a local notification. No push service of ours is involved.
- No account. The app has no sign-up and no login, and we collect no name, email address or phone number.
Ads in the free version
The free version shows ads through Google AdMob. To show and measure ads, Google’s software inside the app collects data from your device and sends it to Google and its advertising partners. According to Google, this includes:
- a device identifier, including your iPhone’s advertising identifier if you allow tracking;
- your approximate location, worked out from your IP address;
- which ads you were shown and whether you tapped them;
- how the ad software performed, including crash and diagnostic data.
Google uses this for advertising and analytics. We do not receive this data about you as an individual; we see only totals, such as how many ads were shown. The ads never see the messages, names or photos you put in the app. How Google uses data from apps that show its ads is described at policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites, and its privacy policy is at policies.google.com/privacy.
Your choices about ads
- Tracking. The app asks your iPhone’s permission before your advertising identifier is used to track you across other companies’ apps and websites. You can say no; ads are still shown, they are just less tailored to you. You can change your answer at any time in the iPhone’s Settings, under Privacy & Security, Tracking.
- Consent in Europe. If you are in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom or Switzerland, the app asks for your consent before any ad is requested, and you can refuse. You can change your choice later in the app, under Settings, Privacy choices.
- No ads at all. The one-time upgrade removes the ads. Once you have upgraded, Google’s ad software is not started and collects nothing.
Purchases
The upgrade is bought through Apple’s App Store. Apple handles the payment; we never see your card or billing details. The app only learns from Apple whether the upgrade has been bought.
Children
Fake Messages is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal data from them.
Your rights
Because the app sends us nothing, we hold no personal data about you to show, correct or delete. Everything you entered is on your phone and goes when you delete the app. For data collected by Google’s ad software, use the choices above and Google’s own tools at myadcenter.google.com. If you write to us by email, we keep your message only as long as needed to answer it.
Changes
If the app changes in a way that affects your data, this page changes first, and the date at the top changes with it.
Contact
Senpai Media · [email protected]