Questions, answered plainly

Mostly about phone numbers, contacts and links — which is what people actually want to know before they put their friends into an app.

The basics

What is Friends Day?

A native iOS app for planning one day with your friends. You pick a date, put ideas on it — brunch at 11, mini golf at 1 — add the people you want there, and share the plan. That is the whole product.

What is it not?

It is not a social network, a calendar, a group chat, a travel planner or a reservation service. There is no feed, no follower count, no public profiles, and no way to search for people. You cannot find anyone in Friends Day who is not already in your phone.

Do I need an account to try it?

No. You can open the app, pick a day and add ideas without giving us anything. Friends Day asks you to verify a phone number only at the point you do something that involves other people — inviting them, sharing a day, or joining someone else’s.

What does it cost?

Friends Day is free to use. There are no ads, and your information is never sold or shared with advertisers.

Which devices does it run on?

iPhone and iPad, on iOS 17 or later. There is no Android app and no web version — the website you are reading exists to serve shared links and pages like this one.

Phone numbers and contacts

Why does Friends Day want my phone number?

Because it is how your friends already know you. When someone adds you to a day from their contacts, the number is the only thing that reliably says “this is the same person.” Verifying it is what turns the placeholder your friend created into your account, with the days you were already invited to waiting inside it.

Can other people see my phone number in the app?

No. Nobody ever sees anybody’s phone number in Friends Day. Numbers are not stored on the day, on the plan, or on any record another user can read. Other people see the name you were added under, or the name on your profile once you have one.

Does Friends Day upload my address book?

No. Friends Day uses Apple’s own contact picker, so the app never gets access to your contacts as a whole. Only the specific people you tap are sent to us, and only their name and the one number you chose.

Someone added me to a day before I had the app. How?

They picked you out of their own contacts. We store a scrambled, one-way fingerprint of each number rather than a searchable list, so that when you verify the same number later we can recognise it — but the fingerprint cannot be turned back into a phone number, and it is not something anyone can look you up by.

Can I be found by my phone number?

Not by strangers. There is no directory, no search, and no way to ask Friends Day whether a number belongs to someone. The only way anyone reaches you is by already having your number in their phone and choosing you deliberately.

Sharing, links and who can see what

Does Friends Day text my friends for me?

Never. When you tap Share the Day, Friends Day makes the card and the link and then opens your Messages app with the text ready. You choose who it goes to, you can edit every word of it, and nothing is sent until you press send. We do not send SMS, and there is no server anywhere sending messages on your behalf.

Who can see the link I share?

Anyone who has it. The link is long and random — it cannot be guessed — but it works by possession: whoever holds it can open the page and see the plan. That is deliberate, so the friends you text can see the day immediately without installing anything. Treat it the way you would treat the plan itself: share it with the people the day is for.

What does someone see if they open the link without the app?

The day’s title and date, the plan as you last shared it, the first names of the people on it, and how many are going. They never see phone numbers, email addresses, account identifiers, or the day’s history.

Can someone with the link add themselves to my day?

No. A link lets someone see the plan. Getting private access — the live day, the ability to add ideas or RSVP — requires that you already added them, and that they verify the same phone number you added them under. Forwarding your link to a stranger does not put that stranger on your day.

Can I turn a link off?

Yes. The creator of a day can rotate its link at any time, which kills every link that day has ever issued and gives you a new one to send. Removing someone from a day does the same thing automatically — otherwise the person you just removed would still be holding a working link.

What is the difference between the plan and the shared plan?

Edits you make are yours until you share them. The card, the link and everyone outside the app see the last version you deliberately shared — so you can move things around, change your mind, and fix a time without anyone watching it happen. The app tells you when there are changes you have not shared yet.

Do people who never install the app show up on the day?

Yes, by the name you added them under. They are part of the plan and appear on the card and the page. They just cannot open the day privately, RSVP or add ideas until they install the app and verify their number.

Using a day

Can my friends add their own ideas?

If you let them. Each day is either creator-controlled, where only you change the plan, or collaborative, where anyone on the day can add ideas and edit their own. You can change that at any time. Whoever created the day always controls the date, the title, who is on it, and when it is shared.

What happens when I RSVP?

The people on the day see it, and the count updates. RSVPs do not count as changes to the plan, so they never leave you with unshared edits — and the card shows what the counts were the last time the day was shared.

Can I cancel a day?

Yes. Cancelling keeps the day and its history visible to everyone who was on it, marks it clearly as cancelled, stops further changes, and updates the public page so anyone holding the link sees that it was called off rather than a plan that is no longer happening.

Does Friends Day send notifications?

Yes — four of them, and no others: you were put on a day, a day you are on was shared, its date changed, or it was cancelled. Each one can be turned off individually under Profile → Notifications, and iOS asks your permission before any of them can arrive. Friends Day will never notify you about every small change someone makes, and there is nothing promotional.

Your data

What do you actually store?

Your account, the days you make or are part of, and the plans on them. The privacy policy lists every category, where it lives and how long it stays.

Do you sell my data or show me ads?

No. Neither, and there is no advertising SDK in the app.

How do I delete my account?

See deleting your account, which explains exactly what is removed, what is kept, and what happens to days you created.

Something is wrong, or I want to report a problem.

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