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Sharing and Protected items

The Gift Journal separates your private journal from information you deliberately choose to share.

The Gift Journal separates your private journal from information you deliberately choose to share.

Share a Gift Idea

  1. Open the Gift Idea.
  2. Choose Share idea.
  3. Review the selectable fields.
  4. Useful shopping information such as an available photo, link, source and estimated price may be preselected; private relationship/planning fields remain under your control.
  5. Read Preview — exactly what will be shared.
  6. Choose one of the available final actions.

Share idea with another Gift Journal user

Choose Share idea… / Share idea with Gift Journal… when you want to send the structured Gift recommendation artefact through Apple’s share sheet. AirDrop, Messages, Mail and other compatible Apple share destinations can carry the file.

The structured transfer can include the Gift photo and the specific fields you approved. It does not transfer the sender’s entire Person record, private Occasion history or full journal.

Share as text

Choose Share as text… when the recipient does not need The Gift Journal. The text output follows the curated preview.

Receive a Gift Journal recommendation

  1. Open the received .giftjournalgift file with The Gift Journal.
  2. Review the incoming Gift information and shared context.
  3. Choose the Person in your own journal who should receive the Idea.
  4. Save/import the recommendation.

The recipient creates a new local journal relationship; the sender’s private Person/Occasion/status history is not recreated.

Share a Wishlist

  1. Open Wishlist.
  2. Choose Share wishlist.
  3. Select the non-protected items to include.
  4. Review the exact preview.
  5. Choose Share wishlist….

Share an Occasion

  1. Open the Occasion plan.
  2. Choose Share privately.
  3. Select what may be disclosed.
  4. Review the exact preview.
  5. Choose Share occasion….

Protect an item

Protection is an additional privacy boundary for selected Gifts, Hints and Wishlist items.

When an item is protected:

  • its private content is redacted while locked;
  • opening/editing it requires Face ID, Touch ID or device authentication as available;
  • search and other surfaces should not expose locked content;
  • widgets/Watch/notifications do not publish protected private content;
  • ordinary reports/exports do not silently include it;
  • whole-Wishlist sharing excludes protected items by default.

Unlock a protected item

  1. Select the redacted Protected item.
  2. Choose Unlock item or perform the protected action.
  3. Authenticate with the Apple device authentication flow.
  4. Use the item normally while that authorised access is valid.

When the record is deliberately re-locked/protected again or the app loses the relevant authenticated state, the UI returns to its redacted presentation and authentication is required again.

Portable Journal Export and protected items

Portable Journal Export excludes protected Gifts, Hints and Wishlist items by default. To include them:

  1. Open Settings → Portable journal.
  2. Turn on Include protected items.
  3. Choose Export portable journal….
  4. Authenticate.
  5. Complete the export.

Cancel authentication and the protected export must not proceed.