Apple Journal is for secret thoughts and feelings and taking notes about specific times in life.
Theres an option to make the Journal app Discoverable by Others.
Its toggled on when you initially fire up the Journal app and enable permissions for Journaling Suggestions.
Apple Journal on iOS 17.2.Photo: Florence Ion / Gizmodo
Those Suggestions are how you get photos, location data, and more into your diary entries.
If youre uncomfortable with this feature, heres a simple guide on how to turn it off.
Scroll down until you see Journaling Suggestions.
Look for the Journaling Suggestions option under Settings > Privacy & Security.Screenshot: Florence Ion / Gizmodo
Tap on that to reveal the options available.
The option to have Apple Journal be Discoverable by Others is further down the Journaling Suggestings tweaks page.
Toggle it off if you desire.
Be sure to toggle off Discoverable by Others.Screenshot: Florence Ion / Gizmodo
There is more than one way iOS looks around to see if theres a reason for a diary entry.
This includes scanning for activity data and the podcasts and music you consume.
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