What Flip does with your messages
It answers the training question with a qualification worth reading twice.
Your message passes through 4 sets of hands before it is answered, and Flip names 1.
Read from its published policy on 2026-09-09, and quoted rather than paraphrased.
Whose hands it passes through
Somebody carries the message, somebody runs the model that reads it, and where the agent uses a website on your behalf somebody operates that browser. A blank below is not an absence of a company, it is a company nobody has named.
- iMessage
- Flip
- Photon
- Not named
- Not named
- Not stated
In its own words
“under contractual terms that prohibit using it to train their models”
What it does not answer
Each of these is a question some policies in this directory answer. The count is how many of the 53 we have read close it.
- the people in your threads who never signed up
- what happens to your data when you cancel
- which model providers your conversations are sent to
- where to report a hole
Silence is not a denial and it is not a promise. A document that does not address the people in your group thread has not agreed to anything about them.
How old this document is
The document carries no revision date. 35 of the 53 policies here carry one and 18 do not, and without one there is no way to tell whether this describes the product as it ships today.
We started keeping a dated copy of this document on 2026-09-10. A policy that is quietly rewritten leaves nothing behind, so from here any change to it is recorded with the date it appeared.
Back to the Flip listing, every policy read the same way, or why 26 of 63 give no answer at all.