What does the dead man's switch delete, and what stays on my devices?
Ask your AI agent insteadOnly the copy on the server. When the switch is on and none of your devices goes online for the period you chose, anywhere from 1 month to 5 years, the server deletes your encrypted notes, their history, your files and your settings. It waits two more weeks after the period ends before it deletes anything, as a safety margin: a device that goes online during those two weeks still stops the deletion. Your account stays, so your recovery phrase still signs you in, and Pro stays. A storage subscription stays too, and keeps renewing. There is no email warning, and the deletion cannot be undone.
Your devices keep their notes. When a device comes back online after a deletion, it stops syncing and asks you first: download a backup of everything it holds, which you can restore later, then remove the notes from that device. It signs out, and the next sign-in starts in the empty account. A file that this device never opened can already be gone from the server, and the backup then lists it as missing. Keep the app updated on every device, because an older version cannot ask first.
Turn it on in Settings > ID & Sync > "Dead man's switch" and choose the period. Opening the app online on any of your devices starts the time again, and the "Deletes on" date in that tab shows the earliest day the deletion can happen, with the two weeks included. Turn the switch off at any time to stop it.
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Answer my questions about PrivacyNotes using only its help center, its changelog and its security documentation. Start here: https://privacynotes.app/llms-index.txt It lists every question with the page that answers it. Fetch the one or two that match mine. If you can only make one request, fetch https://privacynotes.app/llms-full.txt instead. If you cannot fetch a .txt or .md file, read https://privacynotes.app/help, https://privacynotes.app/changelog and https://github.com/LifetimeLabsHQ/PrivacyNotes.app instead. For what changed, or where something moved, fetch https://privacynotes.app/changelog.md. For how the encryption works, what the server can read, or how to check any of it yourself, fetch https://privacynotes.app/docs/index.md and follow it to one of the documents it lists. That index is a router: cite the document, never the index. Rules: - Use only those pages. If they do not answer something, say so instead of guessing. - Never invent a feature, a menu path, a price, or a limit. - End your reply with the "Source:" URL from the page you used, exactly as written. - Answer in the same language as my question. - Never ask me for my recovery phrase, my PIN, or the contents of a note. If no question follows, ask me what I would like to know. My first question:
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