Add journal encryption
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Hi there! I’ve been a premium subscriber of the Day One app for almost a year now, and I love all it has to offer. However, there’s one thing that concerns me.
I can lock my macOS and iOS apps with a password, and I’m familiar with that. But since I signed up using my Apple ID, if someone had my iPhone’s password and tried accessing my journals, they would fail as there’s a local (app) password. But, if they sign out, and sign back in with my Apple ID, they get full access to all my journals, without needing to enter the password that I once set.
This is something that I find concerning, as of course, these are my private journals that we’re talking about, and it contains sensitive information that should be seen by my eyes only.
So, ideally, I’d love to see some sort of “journal encryption” which allows me to set a password for my journals, so whenever I sign in from a new device, besides signing in, I would also be required to enter a password to access my journals. It doesn’t matter whether it’s a single password for all journals or one for each, I think either way would make me more than happy.
I hope that my feature request makes sense, and that it’s something that we can see happening in the future.
Thanks in advance!
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Hi @emmanuelvr26. Thanks for this post and for the additional information. Privacy and security are top priorities for us.
We have received requests for two-factor authentication for accounts (or using new Security Key technology) for signing in to accounts. Could we submit your request under those options?
Let us know.
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Hi James! Thanks a lot for your response.
It seems like that would be an appropriate solution to help me out with my concern, though I signed up with Apple, would the 2FA also be enabled for this sign in method?
Thanks in advance.
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With Sign in with Apple, a different authentication processed is used, so it would not apply. You can add an email+password to your Day One account by signing in with Apple at https://dayone.me/settings in a web browser. The 2FA would apply to accounts with email+password logins.
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Thanks a lot. I wasn’t aware I could change my sign in method, I’ve done that now, and I’ll be awaiting the 2FA feature to be released. Have a nice weekend!
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Hi @dylanhand
Thanks for checking in on this. I had a look and it is still something on our ideas board so is in consideration by our product team.
We don’t have an ETA on this, but if more users request it, it’ll increase its priority
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It is the most important feature. We are storing most important and may be secret like the embarrassing first approach to what we say in our bike helmets while crying. suppose if somehow my passwords gets stolen from password manager or somewhere then all my secrets are gone.
Please it’s a sincere request please add two step verification. It’s most important feature. I don’t want to use google to singin in as I don’t want to use google or google to know what services I am using.
I am a premium subscriber. Please add it. -
I have added your vote for the inclusion of 2FA. As previously stated, we don’t have an ETA for this feature right now, but we hope to have privacy features in the future. Thanks for being a Premium subscriber!
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As @sangeetadas123 said, this is the most important feature. It is frankly alarming and irresponsible that a paid journal app doesn’t implement 2FA in 2025. My music streaming accounts have supported 2FA for ages and they don’t store nearly as sensitive data.
2FA should be the absolute minimum. Passkeys and hardware security key support should be offered as well.
Thanks for your hard work on Day One.
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Thanks for your feedback on this, @dylanhand
This has been shared with our product team for consideration.
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