What Instinct does with your messages
It trains on your conversations unless you turn that off.
Before it answers you, your message passes through other companies, and it names none of them.
Read from its published policy on 2026-09-10, 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
- 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 56 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 15 days before we read it. 52 of the 56 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 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 Instinct listing, every policy read the same way, or why 22 of 65 give no answer at all.