Privacy and App Lock

Orrique is built to be a private journal. This article explains where your data lives, how to lock the app behind Face ID, Touch ID, or your passcode, how to hide prices, and how location and weather are handled. Everything here is something you control from inside the app.

In short

Your journal always has a copy on the device. First setup recommends private iCloud Sync and shows every device and community choice before it is confirmed. You can choose On This Device, turn either contribution control off, or use Skip Setup without enabling unseen choices.

What this article covers

Pick the task you came for and jump straight to it.

Lock the app

Require Face ID, Touch ID, or your passcode before Orrique opens. See Lock the app.

Hide prices

Remove every price across the app for a discreet view. See Hide prices.

Device search

Choose whether your diary appears in Spotlight. See Device search.

Location and weather

Decide when your location is used for automatic weather. See Location and weather.

How to use it

Lock the app with Face ID, Touch ID, or your passcode

Orrique can require Face ID (or Touch ID, or your device passcode) before it opens.

1. Open Settings.
2. Tap Privacy (the row with the raised-hand icon).
3. Turn on “Require Face ID to unlock”.

That is all you need to do. The setting takes effect right away. The label reads “Require Face ID to unlock”, but on a device that uses Touch ID it will use Touch ID instead, and either way your device passcode works as a fallback.

How brief switches and App Lock differ

Orrique does not draw a full-screen cover every time you switch apps. The system app switcher may retain the last visible screen, while fields marked as private can still receive Apple’s system privacy treatment. App Lock is the access barrier: it re-engages after the app has been in the background for about three minutes (180 seconds), so a quick hop to another app and back will not make you authenticate again.

When the lock does engage, you see a screen that says “Orrique is locked” with an Unlock button. The journal behind it is removed from assistive-technology navigation as well as touch and pointer input until you unlock. Tap Unlock, or simply return to the app, and the Face ID, Touch ID, or passcode prompt appears automatically. If a prompt is cancelled or fails, the “Orrique is locked” screen stays in place, so tap Unlock to try again. Your device passcode is always available as the fallback.

Links and system actions respect the same boundary. If you tap a widget, Spotlight result, Shortcut, notification, support reply, or Orrique link while locked, the private screen does not open underneath the lock. Orrique remembers the destination, waits for the journal and your unlock, then opens it once.

Support reply notifications also fail closed. While the device is locked, the notification shows a generic support-reply message rather than decrypted conversation text. Rich support preview keys are available only while the device is unlocked.

To turn the lock off, return to Settings, tap Privacy, and turn “Require Face ID to unlock” back off.

It will not lock you out

The lock needs Face ID, Touch ID, or a passcode already set up on your device. If none is set up, Orrique opens normally rather than trapping you behind a lock you cannot pass.

Hide prices

If you would rather not show what your fragrances cost, you can hide every price in the app at once.

1. Open Settings.
2. Tap Customization, then go to the Display section.
3. Turn on “Hide prices”.

This applies everywhere instantly, and it travels with iCloud Sync, so it stays consistent across your devices. Here is exactly what changes:

Surface	With Hide prices on
Scent details	Price rows removed
Side-by-side comparison	The Value section removed
Wardrobe	Value totals hidden
Personal dupe card	Price and savings hidden
Insights Value lens Pro	Removed from the Scent Atlas

Prices are removed, not replaced with a placeholder. Turn the toggle back off any time to show them again.

Pro: the Insights Value lens

Hiding prices also removes the Value lens from the Scent Atlas, so spending, cost per wear, and dupe savings are hidden there too. If you had the Value lens selected, Insights falls back to the Wheel lens.

Choose what shows up in device search

Your diary entries can appear in your device’s search (Spotlight) so you can find a past wear without opening the app. You decide whether that happens.

1. Open Settings.
2. Tap Privacy.
3. Turn “Include diary in Spotlight search” on or off.

When this is on, diary entries appear in device search. When it is off, they do not. As the app itself notes, your journal stays on this device unless you have turned on iCloud Sync.

Control location and weather

Orrique can attach the current weather to each wear you log, which uses your location. Location is used only while automatic weather is enabled and only when a weather-aware action needs it.

1. Open Settings.
2. Tap Weather (the cloud-and-sun row).
3. Turn on “Fill weather automatically” and allow location access when asked.

The Location row in that screen shows the current state: Off, Allowed, or Denied. When weather is on, the conditions attach to each log you create. If you want to stop, turn “Fill weather automatically” back off.

Weather uses an approximate area

Your precise location is never stored in the journal or sent to Open-Meteo. When Apple Weather is unavailable, Orrique rounds the coordinate to two decimal places, roughly a one-kilometer area, before asking Open-Meteo for a forecast. Open-Meteo may retain API logs containing the approximate coordinate and your IP address for up to 90 days for maintenance and troubleshooting.

What to expect

After you turn on app lock, leaving the app for more than the three-minute grace period and returning will prompt you to authenticate. When you come back within that window, it returns without asking you to unlock. One thing worth knowing: the lock re-engages only after the grace period, so it does not re-protect a session that is already open in your hand. If you have handed someone your unlocked phone with Orrique already open, the lock will not step in until the app has been in the background long enough.

After you hide prices, prices are gone right away across the app, as listed in the table above. After you change the Spotlight or weather settings, the change takes effect going forward. Turning weather on does not add weather to wears you logged in the past; it only fills in new logs.

Good to know

What is synced and what stays on each device

Some privacy settings travel with iCloud Sync, and some stay on the device you set them on. This is the quick map:

Setting	Travels with iCloud Sync?
Require Face ID to unlock	No, per device
Include diary in Spotlight search	No, per device
Hide prices	Yes, synced
Contribute to community data	Yes, synced
Help improve the shared catalog	Yes, synced

So if you want the lock on both your iPhone and your iPad, turn it on separately on each.

Where your data lives

Orrique stores your collection and diary on your device. You choose whether it also syncs across your devices through your private iCloud, or stays on this device only.

Storage mode	What it does
Local Only	Keeps everything on this device.
iCloud Sync	Keeps your collection up to date across all your devices, privately through your own iCloud account.

You pick this when you first set up the app. iCloud Sync is selected and marked Recommended, and Orrique privately checks the account for a previous setup before Begin becomes available. On This Device remains available beside it. You can change the choice later in Settings under Data and Sync. Orrique keeps the previous mode active and visibly selected while it prepares the request, then Storage on this device confirms the change only after the new backend is ready.

iCloud and SyncHow private sync works, what crosses devices, and what to expect on a new device.

App lock is a screen barrier, not encryption

The app lock keeps the app from opening on an unlocked device. It is a barrier in front of the app, not file encryption of your data. To use it, you need Face ID, Touch ID, or a passcode already set up on your device.

App lock on Mac and Apple Watch

On iPhone and iPad, the lock uses Face ID or Touch ID, with your passcode as a fallback. On a Mac, it uses Touch ID where available and otherwise falls back to your password or passcode. On Apple Watch, the app lock does not apply.

On Mac, the lock covers the main window and the Settings window. The menu bar bottle and Mac menu commands also hide or disable private actions while locked, so logging, shelf, diary, formula, export, and navigation actions wait until you unlock Orrique.

Device	How it unlocks	Fallback
iPhone or iPad	Face ID or Touch ID	Your passcode
Mac	Touch ID where available	Your password or passcode
Apple Watch	App lock does not apply	None

Widgets, the Lock Screen, and Siri

Home-screen and Lock Screen widgets show a lightweight snapshot, not your full diary, and they respect Hide prices, so prices stay hidden there too. The app lock guards the app itself, not a widget, so keep that in mind if you place a widget on your Lock Screen. For what each widget surfaces and how Shortcuts behave, see the link below.

Widgets, Siri, and ShortcutsWhat widgets show, how deep links open the app, and what Siri can do.

What is shared, and what is not

Two optional community settings live under Privacy, in the Community section. During a fresh full setup, both visible controls begin on. You can turn either one off before continuing, and you can change them here later. A choice left on becomes active only after its full disclosure and an explicit Agree action. On an untouched flow, Skip Setup keeps the visible storage choice but leaves unreviewed community sharing off. Existing installations keep their saved settings.

Setting	What it shares
Contribute to community data	After a disclosure, uploads one creator-private raw summary per fragrance with rating, longevity, projection, sillage, sprays, bottle size, price per mL, and currency. Each fragrance uses a different pseudonym. Other people see only crowd results with enough contributors. Diary text, wear dates, photos, your name, and your email are not included.
Help improve the shared catalog	Lets the bottles and details you add be suggested to a curator, who reviews everything before it is verified. Turning this on asks you to agree to the community guidelines first.

Turning community data off stops future automatic summaries. Delete past stats and dupe votes removes your creator-owned raw votes and verifies each deletion with iCloud. Public aggregate snapshots can take time to refresh. If you have contributed to the catalog or filed a report, links to “Your contributions” and “Your reports” appear in this same section.

Community and ContributionsWhich raw fields are shared, what other people see, how deletion works, and how curator review works.

iCloud loading on a new device

When you set up Orrique on a new device with iCloud Sync, your collection may take a moment to arrive. During that time you may see “Loading your collection from iCloud” with a note that it can take a moment on a new device. You can tap “Add a scent by hand” to start using the app while the rest finishes syncing. This is the normal first sync, not lost data. See iCloud and Sync for more.

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