Your app activity stays on your device.

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Overview

This policy explains how App Pause, package name to.anas.appause, handles information. This policy is provided by App Pause. The app processes app-management information on your device so you can review and start visible app-closing sessions.

App Pause does not transmit, sell, or share your app inventory, usage signals, Accessibility content, preferences, or close-session results with the developer, advertisers, analytics providers, or external servers.

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Information accessed on your device

App Pause reads the device's launchable-app inventory, including app names, package identifiers, icons, enabled state, and whether an app is preinstalled. This information is used only to display apps, apply your selected scope and protected list, and prepare a close session.

Critical-app protection

To reduce the risk of disrupting your device, App Pause checks package identifiers for critical roles such as the current Home app, keyboard, dialer, SMS app, Android Settings handler, active device administrators, and persistent system apps. These checks are performed locally and are used to keep critical apps out of a close session.

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Local storage and security

App Pause stores selected and protected package identifiers, sorting and scope preferences, the review preference, recent-app detection preference, and disclosure acceptance in Android app-private preferences. The app's backup and device-transfer rules exclude these preferences.

App Pause does not create an external-storage database and does not include advertising, analytics, or crash-reporting SDKs. Other apps cannot normally read App Pause's private preferences under Android's application sandbox.

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Accessibility

Accessibility is used only after an in-app disclosure and your separate approval in Android Settings. It supports two limited, user-controlled behaviors:

• During a close session that you start, App Pause opens Android Settings for each included app, reads the relevant Settings interface to locate Force Stop and its confirmation, and activates those controls.
• If you separately enable recent-app detection, package-identifier-only window events can help build the recent-app list.

A visible overlay shows progress and cancellation while Android Settings is open. App Pause does not retain or transmit screen text, screenshots, passwords, messages, notifications, browser content, or content from other apps. A close session stops when processing finishes, you cancel it, or the screen turns off.

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Optional Usage Access

Recent-app detection is off by default. If you enable it and no newer recent-app signal is available, App Pause may ask you to grant Usage Access. Android's usage data can provide package identifiers and foreground or last-used timestamps. App Pause may look back up to seven days to identify recent apps.

This processing happens locally. Usage history is not saved by App Pause, and the app falls back to showing all apps when no recent signal exists.

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Collection, sharing, and Android handoffs

App Pause has no internet permission, account system, advertising, analytics, billing, or cloud sync. It does not collect information on a developer server and does not share app data with third parties.

When you start a close session, the selected package identifier is passed locally to the Android operating system so Android Settings can open that app's details page. This is an on-device system handoff initiated by your action, not a transmission to the developer or an external service.

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Retention and deletion

Recent package signals expire from memory after one hour. Close-session results are held only in process memory and are not stored as a persistent history. App-private preferences remain until you change or reset the related setting, clear App Pause's storage, or uninstall the app.

Because App Pause has no account and stores no data on a developer server, there is no server-side profile to delete.

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Permissions and your controls

Accessibility

Performs the disclosed Android Settings interaction and, when enabled, package-only recent-app detection.

Usage Access

Optional. Helps identify recent apps when another signal is unavailable.

Notifications

Keeps a user-started close session visible and cancellable on supported Android versions.

Foreground service

Maintains progress only while a visible close session is running.

App visibility

Finds launchable phone and TV apps and protects critical device roles.

You can revoke Accessibility, Usage Access, and notification access at any time in Android Settings. App Pause will continue with reduced functionality where possible.

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This privacy website

This website adds no analytics, advertising, forms, application cookies, or third-party fonts. It is hosted and protected by Cloudflare, which may process request information such as IP addresses and routing metadata under its privacy policy. App Pause does not receive or use website analytics from this page.

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Changes to this policy

This policy may be updated when App Pause's behavior, permissions, or legal obligations change. The effective and updated dates at the top of this page identify the current version. Material changes will be reflected here and in the policy available inside the app.