What Instinct does with your messages
Source: its published policy, read 2026-09-23. Its words are quoted, never 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, Voice
- Spear Street Technology, Inc.
- Not named
- Not named
- Not named
- Not stated
In its own words
“we use certain information collected through your use of the Services ... to develop and improve our products and technologies, including to evaluate, fine-tune, and train the AI models that power our products and technology. If you do not want us to use your information to train AI models, you can opt out by visiting app.instinct.com/settings”
What it does not answer
Each of these is a question some policies in this directory answer. The count is how many of the 79 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
Instinct last revised it on 2026-08-26, which was 28 days before we read it. 71 of the 79 policies here carry a revision date at all; the rest do not say when they were last changed, so there is no way to tell whether they describe the product as it ships today.
We have read it 2 times and it has changed once since we started watching, most recently on 2026-09-25. What changed, sentence by sentence.
Who else answers this the same way
The products that gave the same answer, each on a page like this one.
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