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by lizardactivist 1270 days ago
It also feeds your ideas, sketches, and notes directly to Apple. Don't put any secrets into this app!

Buried somewhere in the EULA I suspect there is a paragraph giving Apple perpetual, unlimited, non-exclusive rights to anything that would be looked at and deemed interesting.

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I haven't found a specific EULA for Freeform, but you can easily read various Apple EULA's at <https://www.apple.com/legal/sla/>.

Looking at the EULA for Numbers (which I picked essentially at random, though you could argue that Numbers and Freeflow would likely have very similar EULA's).

In that EULA, they say:

> Title and intellectual property rights in and to any content displayed by or accessed through the Apple Software belong to the respective content owner.

You are the "respective content owner" of the ideas, sketches, and notes created within Freeflow.

When you send things using your gmail address, you still retain the IP rights to your material and property attached inside, but you also give Google a perpetual, unrestricted, non-exclusive right to that material, should it be looked at and deemed interesting.

The same thing probably applies to stuff made in this app by Apple.

If I came across that in an Apple EULA I wouldn't be surprised, but I've read several EULAs found at the site I linked to and haven't found any language that suggests what you describe.
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