Effective date: 14 October 2026
My Sticker Day helps you turn photos into stickers and remember the little things in your day. Your collection is stored on your device. Optional iCloud features, Apple Maps and purchase services involve the data handling described below. You do not need to create a My Sticker Day account.
The app accesses a photo when you take one with its camera or choose one through Apple’s photo picker. The picker lets you select photos without giving the app general access to your photo library.
Sticker extraction takes place on your device using Apple’s image processing technology. We do not upload your photos to an image processing service or use them to train our own models.
The source photo is held temporarily during creation and review. After a successful save, or when you cancel creation, the app releases its temporary source. Camera photos are not automatically added to your photo library. Imported originals remain in your photo library.
The app saves the processed sticker image. If it cannot extract a subject, it shows a notice and a preview of the full photo as a framed sticker. Saving that result retains the visible photo content in the processed image, without a separate original file. The saved image does not preserve the original photo’s GPS metadata, although a location may be saved separately with the sticker.
The app stores your sticker images, optional thoughts, categories, outline choices, dates, times and time zones. New or edited stickers save a location as an approximate map position and a place label. Before saving, the app rounds the position to three decimal places and discards the original measurement accuracy and time. Nearby matching addresses share one position. New backups and recovered stickers follow the same location rules. Earlier saved versions can retain their original location precision.
Internal identifiers and saved versions help the app preserve changes and handle sync conflicts. After deletion, small markers containing random identifiers and deletion information prevent older changes from restoring the sticker. These markers do not contain the sticker image, thought, location or original sticker date. Settings such as appearance, daily reminder time and Day arrangements are stored locally.
The app uses this information to display, organize, edit, export, back up and recover your collection. The retention details in section 8 apply to earlier versions and deleted content.
With your permission, the app can request your current location when you create a sticker or choose Use my location now. An imported photo’s available location metadata is used first. If that metadata is missing, the app may use your current location and shows that choice in the editor.
Current location readings and imported photo metadata may temporarily supply a precise position to suggest a place. New or edited map positions are saved approximately, as described above. You can save without a location, search for a place, choose a spot on the map, edit its label or remove it from the current sticker. The app does not continuously track your movements or request background location access.
Apple Maps provides maps, place search and suggested place names. To provide these features, requests can send search terms, relevant coordinates and map areas to Apple. Automatic place name suggestions require current location permission. If that permission is denied, restricted or not yet granted, the app does not automatically send imported photo coordinates for a place name. Opening a map or submitting a place search still uses Apple Maps, including when you choose a spot on the map. See Apple Maps and Privacy.
You can change device location permission in iPhone Settings. This does not remove locations already saved with stickers or embedded in photos you later select. Removing a saved location updates the current sticker; earlier versions can still contain it as explained in section 8.
iCloud sync is off until you enable it. When enabled, your collection is stored in your private iCloud space and can sync through your Apple Account. It can include processed sticker images, full photo stickers, thoughts, categories, saved locations and retained version and deletion history. Temporary original photo files are excluded.
Turning sync off stops future app syncing on that device. It keeps your local collection and does not erase data already stored in iCloud.
Back Up Now saves directly to the app’s private iCloud backup folder. You do not choose a location. Backups remain optional and separate from sync. Automatic Backup is a Pro option that starts off. If enabled, it requests a backup and later saves changed collection content about once per day when your iPhone allows it. Turning it off or losing Pro access stops future automatic backup work; manual backup and recovery remain available. Backups contain collection content, saved versions and associated images. Available backups labels each copy Manual or Automatic. The app retains all manual copies until you delete them, and keeps the ten newest automatic copies. Older automatic copies are removed after a replacement is validated and confirmed uploaded. Older backups without saved type information are treated as Manual and preserved. Failed cleanup can leave extra copies until a retry succeeds. Before recovery, the app creates and verifies a separate local safety copy, then removes older local recovery copies. The remaining local safety copy stays internal and is not shown in Available backups. Older saved page content may also be preserved for compatibility. Restore lists managed iCloud backups only; the app no longer opens arbitrary backup files.