What Data Just5K Keeps, and How to Delete It
No account: what Just5K stores on your iPhone, what it reads and saves in Apple Health, what goes to Strava if you connect it, and how to remove all of it.
The Short Version
Just5K has no account. Everything the app knows about you stays on your iPhone, and the app doesn't send any of it to us. It loads map images from Apple for the route map after a run. If you connect Strava, your finished sessions go from your iPhone to your Strava account, and nowhere else.
What's Stored on Your iPhone
- Your first name, if you entered one.
- Your answers from setup, all of which you could skip: your weight (only used to suggest a starting program), how long you could run, your program and your training days.
- Your progress: which sessions you've done, which week you're on, and your answer to the day's check-in.
- Your reminder settings.
- Your profile photo, if you added one: a small square copy, without the original or the details the camera adds, such as where it was taken. Remove it in your profile at any time.
Apple Health
Only if you allow it. Just5K reads your workouts, so runs from your watch or other apps can count; your heart rate during a run, for the review at the end of a session; last night's sleep, for the Sleep card on Home and a gentle note after a short night; and your steps, resting heart rate and cardio fitness, for the other cards on Home. With Just5K Plus, and only if you allow them from the Body card on Home, it also reads heart rate variability, breathing rate while you sleep, blood oxygen and wrist temperature while you sleep. It saves your finished sessions as workouts with distance and route, walk-only sessions as walks. More in how to connect Apple Health.
Location
Only during a run, to measure distance and draw your route. It isn't used at any other time. Just5K sends the route only to Strava, and only if you connected it.
Strava
Only if you turn it on in your profile. Each finished session goes to your Strava account: when it started, how long it took, the distance, the route and a name like "Just5K · Week 3, session 2". Your Strava sign-in is kept in the iPhone's Keychain. just5k.com helps with signing in and keeps nothing. Nothing from Apple Health goes to Strava. More in send your runs to Strava.
How to Delete Your Data
- Everything in the app. Delete Just5K from your iPhone: touch and hold the icon, tap Remove App, then Delete App. That erases everything the app stored on the phone.
- Runs saved to Apple Health. These stay in Health after you delete the app, like any workout. To remove them, open the Health app, go to Browse, then Activity, then Workouts, and tap Show All Data. Swipe left on a workout and tap Delete.
- Stop sharing with Health. In the Health app, tap your profile picture, then Apps, then Just5K, and turn off what you don't want to share. Or turn off Apple Health in your Just5K profile: the app stops reading and saving, and your Health data stays as it is.
- Location. In Settings, go to Privacy & Security, then Location Services, then Just5K.
- Strava. Turn off Strava in your profile. Sessions already on Strava stay there; delete them in Strava if you want them gone.
Questions
Write to us at hello@just5k.com. The full details are in our privacy policy.
Still stuck?
Email us at hello@just5k.com. Tell us what happened and which iPhone you use, and we'll help.