Help and privacy

Getting started

Six asks how you will hold the phone: flat on a table, or turned sideways with the screen facing away from you, fingers wrapped round the front. Then you rest three fingers of each hand on the screen and Six moves its six keys under them. You can change the hold, or fit the keys again, from Holding the phone on the home screen.

With the screen turned away, anyone looking at it, you included if you peek over the top, sees the keys mirrored: dots 1, 2 and 3 on the right. That is deliberate. Under your fingers the braille cell is the right way round.

Sound

Six speaks, and plays a note for each finger. The iPhone app plays sound even with the silent switch on, so if you hear nothing, turn the volume up with the buttons on the side of the phone. Notes, the voice and vibration can each be switched off in Settings, the gear at the top of the home screen.

VoiceOver

Six works with VoiceOver on. On the typing screens, its keys take all six fingers directly, the way Apple’s own braille keyboard does, and VoiceOver reads Six’s prompts in your own voice and speed.

Reminders

After your first lesson, Six offers to remind you to practise. It only reminds you on days you haven’t practised: three days in a row, then once a week later, then it stops. Change the time or turn reminders off in Settings.

Starting again

Settings → Start again clears your stars, the placement test and your fitted keys, and opens the setup steps as on the first day. Your settings stay.

Privacy

The Six app collects nothing. It has no account, no analytics and no adverts, and it does not track you across other apps or websites. Nothing you type in Six leaves your phone.

What Six keeps, it keeps on your phone, in the app’s own storage: your stars, the lessons the placement test showed you know, where your keys are fitted, and your settings. Deleting the app deletes them.

Reminders are scheduled on your phone by iOS. No server sends them, and no one learns when you practise.

The voice is the iPhone’s own, and speech is made on the phone.

Two things in Six take you outside it, and only when you choose them. Suggest an improvement opens a feedback board on nearmark.co.uk in your browser, which has its own privacy terms, and the app’s version number goes with you so a report says which version it’s about. Share Six uses the iPhone’s own sharing.

The web version of Six also keeps your progress in your browser’s own storage and collects nothing. Loading it does reach two other companies, as most websites do: its host, Vercel, which serves the page, and Google Fonts, which supplies its typefaces. Both see your browser’s request, including its internet address. The iPhone app carries its typefaces inside it and makes no such requests.

Questions about privacy: hello@jharbourne.com. This policy was last updated on 11 October 2026.