Privacy.
In plain terms.

Remote Gaze lets you see and control your own Mac from your own iPad or iPhone. It is two apps: Remote Gaze for iPad and iPhone (named “Gaze” on the Home Screen), and Gaze Host for the Mac. This policy covers both. “We” means Shannon Walters, who makes them.

Effective October 2, 2026.

Nothing. Remote Gaze does not send us, or anyone else, information about you, your devices or what you do with them. It does not track you across apps or websites.

• The Macs you have paired with: name, model, when you last connected, and the addresses where each can be found, including your home’s public IP address if you turn on Reachable Away from Home.
• A secret key for each Mac, in the Keychain.
• A second key for connecting from away, made inside the device’s Secure Enclave. It never leaves the device and signs only after Face ID, Touch ID or your passcode.
• A small picture of each Mac’s screen from your last session, for the list of Macs.
• Your settings.
• An identifier for the device, sent only to the Macs you pair with, so they can tell your devices apart.

• The devices you have paired: name, model, screen shape, when paired and last connected, their keys (in the Keychain), and the public half of each device’s key for connecting from away.
• Your settings.
• A history of the ways into your Mac: each session, file transfer and turned-away attempt by a paired device, with the device’s name, the address it came from, whether it was at home or away, and when. It keeps 90 days and at most 500 entries. You can clear it in Gaze Host, and a paired device can see its latest entries in Remote Gaze.
• The last 20 sessions from away, and a notification when one starts, if you allow notifications.

Both apps write diagnostic entries (connection events, frame rates, latency, sizes) to the device’s own system log. They stay on the device and never include what is on your screen, what you type or what you copy.

Only between your Mac and a device you paired with it:

• The picture of your Mac’s screen, and its sound.
• Your touches, pointer, keys, Apple Pencil input and handwriting recognized by iPadOS, and text you dictate.
• The clipboard, while Clipboard Sync is on. Items that password managers mark as concealed or transient are never sent.
• Files you choose to send to your Mac or save from it.
• The names and icons of the apps installed on your Mac, so you can choose one to open.
• Your device’s name, model and screen size, and figures about the connection’s quality.

All of it is encrypted with keys that only that device and that Mac hold. A device gets its key by typing a one-time code your Mac shows you.

When you tap the microphone key on Remote Gaze’s keyboard, it asks for Microphone and Speech Recognition permission. Your speech is turned into text on your device where it has a recognizer for your language; where it doesn’t, Apple’s speech recognition service does it, under Apple’s privacy policy. The text is typed on your Mac. Remote Gaze keeps no recordings, and we receive none. The system keyboard’s own dictation is Apple’s, as in any app.

At home, your devices connect directly. If you turn on Reachable Away from Home (it is off until you do), Gaze Host asks your router to forward a port to your Mac, and your device connects to it directly over the internet, after Face ID, Touch ID or your passcode. There is no server of ours, or anyone’s, in between: your internet providers can see that a connection exists, not what is in it.

• Local Network (both apps): to find and reach your Mac.
• Microphone and Speech Recognition (iPad and iPhone): only for dictation.
• Face ID (iPad and iPhone): before connecting from away, and at home if you choose.
• Screen Recording (Mac): to capture the screen and sound.
• Accessibility (Mac): to move the pointer and press keys, and to find the small control a fingertip covered, place the window of an app you open, and notice a text field so the keyboard can be shown. For those, Gaze Host asks macOS only where controls and windows are, what kind they are and whether they are enabled, never their text, titles or contents.

Remote Gaze does not ask for your location, contacts, photos, calendar or camera, and reads a file only when you pick it or drop it in.

We share nothing, because we receive nothing, and the apps contain no third-party code that collects data. Apple distributes the iPad and iPhone app. If you share analytics with app developers in Settings, Apple may give us crash reports and usage statistics that don’t identify you.

• Forget a Mac in Remote Gaze to delete its keys, addresses and pictures from that device.
• Remove a device in Gaze Host to make its key useless. Remove All Devices does so for every device.
• Clear History in Gaze Host empties the Mac’s history.
• Deleting an app deletes its settings and pictures.

There is nothing to ask us to delete, because we hold nothing.

Remote Gaze is a utility for controlling your own Mac. It is not directed at children and collects nothing from anyone.

If a version changes anything here, this policy is updated before it is released, with a new date.

Questions: refuser.creator-2k@icloud.com