Milton
Privacy Policy
Last updated: November 8, 2026
Milton is a family organizer for iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch, made by Deschutech LLC. This policy explains what happens to your family's information. The short version: Milton has no servers of its own and no accounts. Your family's information lives on your devices and, if you turn on sharing, in your own iCloud. We never receive it.
What Milton does not collect
- Your family's calendar, chores, routines, shopping lists, meals, points or photos
- Names, ages or any other details of the people you add, including children
- Your location
- Usage analytics, telemetry or crash reports
- Advertising identifiers. There are no ads and no tracking frameworks
Where your family's information is kept
Everything you put into Milton is stored on the device you put it in. If you unlock family sync, it is also kept in your own iCloud account using Apple's CloudKit, in a private database that only your Apple Account can read. When you invite someone, Apple's iCloud sharing gives that person access to your family's shared data, and you can remove their access at any time from Household. Apple handles iCloud under Apple's privacy policy; Deschutech has no access to your iCloud data.
Some settings belong to one device only and never sync: appearance, ambient photos chosen for the at-rest screen, and the outside-service switches below.
Outside services
A few features need to ask a service outside your device. Each one can be switched off in Milton's Settings under Services; switched off, the feature simply isn't offered.
| Feature | What is sent, and to whom |
|---|---|
| Look up places, travel times, find branches | Search text, and the locations of your home, events and shops, to Apple Maps |
| Weather | Your home's location, and outdoor events' locations, to Apple WeatherKit |
| Calorie lookup | The names of meal ingredients, to USDA FoodData Central (a United States government service). Nothing that identifies you is included |
| Public holidays (off until you turn it on) | Your country's two-letter code and the year, to Nager.Date (date.nager.at), an open public-holiday service, once a year per country. Nothing that identifies you is included |
Permissions
Milton asks for these only when you use the feature that needs them, and you can change them at any time in the Settings app.
- Location: to notice when you arrive at a shop you still need something from. Milton watches only those shops, and the location stays on your device.
- Notifications: for leave-by reminders, shop arrival alerts and a morning note. They are scheduled on your device.
- Calendars: to show events from your other calendars so you can bring one into the family calendar. Milton reads them only; nothing is synced or changed on your other calendars.
- Camera and Photos: to take or pick a picture for a family member, and to scan a recipe or a shopping list. Milton reads only the photos you choose. The text on a scanned page is read on your device by Apple’s on-device text recognition; the photo is not kept or sent anywhere, and only what you save (the recipe or the list items) goes into your family’s iCloud. Pictures of family members stay on your devices and in your own iCloud.
Apple Watch
The watch app shows a copy of what your iPhone sends it over Apple's Watch Connectivity. It keeps no data of its own beyond that copy.
Purchases
Milton's family sync unlock is bought through the App Store and handled entirely by Apple under Apple's privacy policy. We receive no personal information about you from Apple, only aggregate sales reports.
Children
Milton is used by families, and parents can add their children as family members. Children do not have accounts, and Milton does not collect personal information from anyone, including children under 13. Everything a parent enters about a child stays on the family's devices and in the family's own iCloud.
Emailing us
If you email support, we use your address and what you send only to answer you, and delete it when it is no longer needed.
Your rights (GDPR, UK GDPR, CCPA and similar laws)
Deschutech LLC holds no personal data about you unless you email us. You may ask us to access, correct, delete or export anything you sent us, or object to its use, by emailing hello@deschutech.com; we answer within 30 days. Our legal basis is our legitimate interest in answering you. You may also complain to your local data protection authority. We do not sell or share personal information. To delete your family's data, delete it in the app, stop sharing in Settings, or remove Milton's data from iCloud in your device's iCloud settings.
Changes
If this policy changes, we will update this page and the date above. Material changes will also be noted in the app's release notes.
Contact
Deschutech LLC, Bend, Oregon, United States · hello@deschutech.com