Apple is planning to release a Day One-style journaling app for the iPhone to allow users to track their daily activities, reports The Wall Street Journal.
From the paywalled report:
The software will compete in a category of so-called journaling apps, such as Day One, which lets users track and record their activities and thoughts. The new Apple product underscores the company’s growing interest in mental health.
The Apple journaling app, code-named Jurassic, is designed to help users keep track of their daily lives, according to the documents describing the software. The app will analyze the users’ behavior to determine what a typical day is like, including how much time is spent at home compared with elsewhere, and whether a certain day included something outside the norm, according to the documents.
The WSJ says that documents they have access to say a personalization feature will highlight potential topics for users to write about, such as a workout, while the app will also offer “All Day People Discovery” to detect a user’s physical proximity to other people.
The report says Apple’s app will be able to gather much more user data than third-party journaling apps and will have access to text messages and phone calls. However, the software’s design will be made with privacy and security. The analysis of the user’s day will take place on-device, and journaling suggestions will remain in the system for four weeks, after which they will be removed.
While we don’t know for sure when the app will be released, we could see an announcement as soon as WWDC 2023 in June, where it could be unveiled alongside iOS 17.
