Frequently Asked Questions

AwareFlow is an iOS^® app that helps you notice unconscious sounds like sniffing and throat clearing. It combines real-time awareness, gentle nudges, and pattern insights, all processed on your device.

Anyone who wants to become more aware of unconscious habits. It can also help with tension in relationships where certain sounds are difficult for others, including people affected by misophonia.

Download the app, allow microphone access, and open the Listen tab. Tap the main button to begin your first session. Running the Calibration Lab first will help the app learn your environment faster.

iPhone^® and iPad^® running iOS 26 or later. On iPad, haptic nudges are replaced with a soft sound, and the app tells you up front so nothing about nudges is a surprise.

The AI Coach feature requires an iPhone with Apple Intelligence^® support (iPhone 15 Pro or later). Like detection, the AI Coach runs on the Apple Neural Engine, so no data leaves your device. On other supported devices, the rest of the app works the same; only the AI Coach is silent.

Misophonia is a strong sensitivity to specific sounds such as sniffing, chewing, or throat clearing. AwareFlow is not a treatment, but it can help ease friction through private awareness of the habit.

Open the Listen tab and tap the main button to start or stop.

Currently sniffing and throat clearing. Additional habits are in development.

AwareFlow uses on-device machine learning to recognize short sound patterns in real time, accelerated by the Apple Neural Engine. Detection runs on the CPU plus Neural Engine compute path Apple recommends for ambient and always-on audio workloads. Nothing is recorded or sent anywhere.

It learns over time. Early sessions may over-detect while the app is learning your voice and environment. Running the Calibration Lab and adjusting the sensitivity setting for your space helps it tune to you faster.

It adjusts how easily a habit is noticed. Lower reduces extra nudges. Higher makes listening more sensitive to quieter sounds.

Not always, and that is intentional.

AwareFlow is designed to notice patterns, not monitor every moment. It will sometimes miss a sound and occasionally notice one that was not there.

That is why the + button exists. If you notice a habit yourself, tap it to log manually. Your own noticing is just as valuable as anything the app catches, and it helps the system learn what is yours over time.

Awareness does not require perfection. It just requires noticing.

It creates a personalized baseline for your environment, helping the app distinguish your habits from background noise. You can recalibrate any time your surroundings change.

Yes. All core features run entirely on your device and do not require an internet connection.

Battery use is designed to be minimal. All processing happens on-device with no background data transfer.

When a habit is noticed, you receive a subtle haptic or quiet notification. Only you can feel or see it.

Yes. You can adjust frequency, style, and timing in settings.

Check iOS notification settings and Focus modes, as these can silence alerts even when the app is running correctly.

No. Audio is processed in real time and immediately discarded. Nothing is ever recorded or stored.

On your device. You control whether anything is shared or exported.

Core features are fully on-device. Detection runs on the Apple Neural Engine, and the AI Coach uses Apple Foundation Models on the same Neural Engine path. Some optional features may use Apple services for things like weather, but never for audio.