[tmpz22]

Looks compelling from the app store page! Because I might use it I have to ask - how do permission work around messages? I'd assume something like this:

* Install App

* App cannot passively READ messages

* When I need to use the app, like in a group chat where we are spontaneously planning an event, I can invite it into the chat so that the group can input their preferences

* Other group members (who may also need to install the app) can interact with the widget to submit their planning prefferences

* Widget then WRITES results back to the chat

Does it ever read my messages? Does it ever write messages to the chat? Does my entire group chat need to install it?

Great work. Seems well targeted and that it could help a lot of folks.

[devgoth]

this app never reads any messages. the iMessage framework is very strict around privacy...so much so that you are unable to get user information of. This is why you will see Participate 1, 2, 3 instead of the person's name. There is no way to get this information of who the sender is! Kudos to apple for this.

The only message that is written to the chat is when you hit submit. There is no external service as all information is stored as metadata on the message itself. I did not want to have an external server (which has its own challenges, see in another message around collisions).

Your entire group can see the message but in order to interact with the poll they will need to download the app. They will be redirected to the app store if they do not have the app after clicking.