Set Up Journal’s Permissions

The Journal app can suggest entries based on your day-to-day activities.

pop pop the “parameters” app on your iPhone.

Scroll down and tap on “Privacy & Security.”

Apple’s Journal app on an iPhone screen on a MacBook keyboard.

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Now tap on “Journaling Suggestions.”

You will notice that all journaling suggestions are currently inactive.

To create a new journal entry, launch the Journal app and follow the steps explained below.

iPhone homepage highlighting settings.

Tap the Compose button (the “+” sign at the bottom) within the app.

On the next screen, you will have two options for starting a new journal entry.

you’ve got the option to now begin writing your journal entry.

An iPhone settings page highlighting privacy and security.

When you are done writing the entry, hit “Done” to save it.

With this, you have now created your first journal entry.

Let’s look at both suggestions.

iPhone screen highlighting journaling suggestions.

Clicking on the icon will start a new journal entry based on the suggestion.

Clicking on any of the prompts will create a new journal entry.

The writing prompts can be refreshed by tapping the “refresh” icon in the top right corner.

iPhone settings screen showing inactive journaling suggestions.

You will now be shown all the data that the app uses to build suggestions.

To do that, navigate to parameters > Journal and turn on “Skip Journaling Suggestions.”

Let’s look at how you’re able to navigate through and review these entries with ease.

iPhone screen highlighting the plus sign on the iPhone journal app.

On opening the journal app, the app’s homepage shows all your journal entries as a list.

Lock Your Journal Entries

Scroll down to find the “Journal” app and hit it.

One of the items in the Journal app parameters is “Lock Journal.”

iPhone screen highlighting the new entry button on the iPhone journal app.

press it to switch on the lock feature for your journal entries.

To get reminded of creating a journal entry, you’re free to create a journaling schedule.

In the tweaks app on your iPhone, navigate to Journal.

iPhone screen showing a blank screen to write a journal entry.

Scroll down and tap on “Journaling Schedule.”

On opening the journal app, the homepage shows all your entries as a list.

Locate the entry you want to delete and tap the ellipsis icon in the lower-right corner of the entry.

iPhone screen showing journal suggestions and highlighting the write button.

From the pop-up menu, select “Delete” to remove the entry.

iPhone screen showing a new journal entry page with images.

iPhone screen showing suggested prompts for new journal entries.

iPhone screen showing a list of active permissions.

An iPhone settings page highlighting skip journaling suggestions.

An iPhone settings page highlighting journal.

An iPhone screen highlighting lock journal.

An iPhone screen showing an active toggle on lock.

An iPhone screen highlighting journaling schedule.

An iPhone screen showing an active day and time schedule.