Privacy policy
Last updated 22 August 2026. Applies to the Black Keyboard iOS app and keyboard extension, published by The Trade Script, LLC.
Black Keyboard cannot send anything you type off your device, because it never asks for the permission that would let it. That permission is called Full Access, iOS asks you for it separately and explicitly when you add a third-party keyboard, and Black Keyboard does not request it. Without Full Access, iOS itself blocks a keyboard extension from making network connections at all. This is not something we could quietly change in an update without you seeing a new permission prompt first.
That is the short version, and it is short enough to be worth distrusting. The rest of this page explains exactly what "no Full Access" means, what little the app does store, and where.
1. The question everyone actually has: can this read my passwords?
No, and not because we say so. iOS does not let it. A
third-party keyboard without Full Access runs inside a sandbox that has
no access to the network, no access to other apps' data, and only a
brief, one-shot window onto the system pasteboard right after you
paste something. Black Keyboard's extension has
RequestsOpenAccess set to false in its own
configuration, which is what puts it inside that sandbox in the first
place. We cannot flip that on invisibly: iOS shows you an explicit "Allow
Full Access" toggle, off by default, and changing it requires you to go
into Settings yourself.
Separately, and regardless of Full Access, iOS does not hand a third-party keyboard the keystrokes at all when you tap into a password field or any other field marked as secure text entry. iOS switches to the system keyboard for those fields automatically. That is a platform behavior, not something Black Keyboard opts into or could opt out of.
Put together: there is no networking code in the keyboard for it to use even if it wanted to, no permission granted that would let such code reach the internet, and no access at all to what you type into a password field in the first place. The guarantee here is a technical one enforced by iOS, not a promise about how we chose to behave.
2. What we collect
Nothing. We operate no service that receives data from the app or the keyboard, so there is no database with your name in it, no log of what you have typed, and no profile of you anywhere. This is not a promise about how we behave with data we hold. There is no channel for that data to reach us, because the keyboard has no networking code at all: not analytics, not crash reporting, not an ad SDK, not a single third-party library of any kind.
3. What the app stores on your device
The keyboard and the container app share a small amount of state through an iOS App Group, which is a storage area on your device that both parts of the app can read. It does not touch iCloud and does not leave your phone. Specifically, it holds:
- Your regular/bold weight choice.
- Whether autocorrect is turned on.
- Your recently used emoji, so the "Frequently Used" tray reflects what you actually reach for. Up to 32 are kept.
- A date marking when the keyboard was first added in Settings, which the container app uses to confirm setup is complete.
- A short list of specific words you have told autocorrect to leave alone, either by tapping the word in the suggestion strip to keep what you typed, or by pressing delete right after an autocorrection to undo it. Once a word is on this list, the keyboard stops trying to "fix" it. This is the one place a word you typed is retained rather than discarded the moment you move past it, and we are naming it plainly rather than folding it into a general promise that would not be true: it is a short, unordered list of individual words, not a transcript, a log, or anything in the order you typed them, and it never leaves your device. You can erase this list at any time in the Black Keyboard app, under Autocorrection data, which also shows you how many words are on it.
All of it lives in the app's own storage on your phone, kept separate by iOS from other apps. Deleting Black Keyboard deletes all of it. If you back up your iPhone, this data is part of that backup, under whatever settings you have chosen with Apple. We are not a party to that backup and cannot read it.
Everything else you type, meaning the actual words, sentences and messages that pass through the keyboard as you write, is never written to disk, logged, or transmitted anywhere by Black Keyboard. It exists only in the text field you are typing into, which belongs to whatever app you are using, not to us.
4. Third parties
There are none. The app contains no analytics vendor, no advertising network, no crash reporter, and no other third-party software development kit of any kind. We do not sell, rent or share your information, because we do not have any to share.
5. Accounts and identifiers
There is no account, no sign-in, and no user identifier of any kind, advertising or otherwise. Nothing about you is distinguishable from anyone else who has installed the app.
6. Your control, and deletion
Because nothing reaches us, there is no request you need to send us to see, correct or delete your data. You already hold all of it.
The Autocorrection data section of the Black Keyboard app lets you clear the remembered words list. Clearing it means those words can be autocorrected again, which is the point of clearing it. The keyboard keeps that list in keyboard-local storage, and your recently used emoji live in the same keyboard-local storage. Your bold and autocorrect preferences live in shared storage the app and keyboard can read. Deleting the app removes all of it at once.
Rights under laws such as the GDPR and the CCPA generally attach to a company holding your personal information. We hold none, so there is nothing for us to disclose, port or erase. You are welcome to write to us and ask us to confirm that.
7. Children
Black Keyboard is a general-purpose keyboard and is not directed at children specifically, though like any keyboard it may be used by people of any age. It collects no personal information from anyone, regardless of age.
8. Changes to this policy
If the app ever does something this page does not describe, including requesting Full Access, which would show you its own separate iOS prompt before it could take effect, this page changes first and carries a new date at the top. The commitment we are making is narrow and specific on purpose: a page this short is easy to check against what the app actually does, and we would rather be held to it.
9. Contact
Questions about this policy go to The Trade Script, LLC, at support@thetradescript.com.