Privacy
No accounts, no email, no phone number. Here is everything Waive stores and where it goes.
Waive is an app lock for a group. In a friends group, each person picks apps on their own iPhone and chooses who holds the key. In a family group, a parent chooses the apps on a kid’s iPhone and locks that phone from theirs. Kids do not pick those apps or a schedule. The key is a 6-digit number.
The pairing service has no accounts.
These marketing pages load the X website tag for ad attribution when you visit, including when you arrive from ads. It records a page view and may set a cookie. The pages also load PostHog to record which page you opened, when you tap an App Store button, and the campaign parameters and referring page on that visit. The App Store redirect at /get sends the same page view and a redirect event from the server, because that address does not render a page. PostHog may set a cookie so a later page on getwaive.com can be tied to the same visit. The pages do not load the Facebook SDK or a Meta Pixel. The app uses PostHog, RevenueCat, Kochava, Meta, and TikTok as described below.
What we store
- A group join code
- An optional group name and member display names
- Who holds each member’s key (up to 6 people, or 30 with Waive Max)
- Whether each member is locked
- For an event: how long your phone was locked, in which 15-minute steps, and how many times a shield opened. Never which apps
If you add an event to Apple Wallet, we keep Wallet’s push address for that pass so its times stay current, and delete it when the event ends. Wallet’s device id and the event code it holds expire after at most 60 days. The pass names no one.
We ask for a display name so friends can recognize you. We do not ask for your email, phone number, or Apple ID. We do not sell data. The pairing service does not use cookies. The marketing pages can, through the X website tag and PostHog.
When you tap Download on an invite page, we keep that invite for up to one hour under a one-way hash of your network address. When Waive first opens on the same network, it asks for the invite once, so you can join without typing the code. The entry is deleted when it is read or after the hour.
What stays on the phone
Your Screen Time app selections stay on your iPhone and in its shared app group, so the background monitor can enforce your choices. The group service stores your lock and break deadlines, focus schedule and time zone, whether a lock covers every app, a lock streak (days in a row, the last day counted, and your best run), minutes locked per day for the last 35 days, whether you only hold keys in a group, unlock requests, and remaining emergency unlocks. Group members can see your streak, your total minutes locked in the last 7 days, and the group streak. Your day-by-day minutes are shown only to you. The home-screen widget reads your lock status and your group members’ names and lock status from your iPhone only. If you allow notifications, we store your Apple push notification device token to deliver unlock requests.
While locked, Waive uses Apple Family Controls and Managed Settings to shield the apps you selected until your key holder unlocks you or your key is entered. Manual locks end when your key holder unlocks you, or at the time you picked for a timed lock. If you enable a daily focus window, its scheduled lock ends at your chosen end time. After your verified subscription period expires, reopen Waive online to verify renewal before future windows can start.
App services
RevenueCat processes subscription status and purchase information with Apple. The group service verifies Pro using a private membership-derived purchase identifier and stores the verified subscription deadline. The app uses PostHog for product events, including onboarding, purchases, and locks, and for crash reports, associated with an installation identifier. Purchase and trial events include the store environment, product id, and price, so a sandbox or App Review purchase can be told from an App Store sale. We do not send your selected app list with those events. To see which ads bring people to Waive, Kochava, Meta, and TikTok receive the install. Meta and TikTok also receive app opens and App Store production purchases (price, currency, product id, and store transaction id). Sandbox, TestFlight, and App Review purchases are not sent to them as revenue. Allowing tracking only adds Apple’s advertising identifier. Your selected app list is not part of that measurement.
Age
Waive asks the birth month and year of the person who uses this iPhone, or Apple’s age range on iOS 26 and later. The date is checked on the phone and is not sent. The phone keeps that person’s age band (under 13, 13 to 17, or 18 and older) and the date the band next changes. Under 13, a parent’s invite is how this phone joins a family, a parent lets the child into an event from the parent’s own iPhone, location is never used, and Kochava, Meta, TikTok, and PostHog do not start. The tracking prompt does not appear. Hosts see only counts of guests, so a child at an event stays anonymous. At 13 or older, those services start as described above. Parents must be 18 or older.
Forms on this site
When you send the groups or events form, we keep your organization, group size, email and what you wrote for 180 days and email it to info@getwaive.com, so we can reply. A hidden field, the time the form took and a per-network limit keep bots out. We do not add you to a mailing list.
Contact
For support or privacy questions, email info@getwaive.com.
United States. Last updated November 3, 2026.