''Part of the [[Using the iOS app|Loopa iOS app]] guide.''
Your coach answers in your terms rather than in general, and it can only do that because of what you told it at setup. This page is the plain answer to a fair question: what does it actually know, where did each piece come from, and how do you change or delete any of it.
== The short version == Everything your coach knows about you is something you typed or picked. Nothing is guessed, inferred from your behaviour, or written by the AI. You can read the whole list, and delete any part of it, at any time.
== What it holds == Beyond the numbers you log day to day, your coach is given the answers from your setup interview:
- '''Why you are doing this''' — the reason you picked, and anything you wrote in your own words. If you write your own, the coach quotes it back rather than paraphrasing it.
- '''How you want to be coached''' — straight with you, gently, numbers first, or encouragement first. It follows this even when it would have said things differently.
- '''What tends to get in the way''' — travel, shift work, stress, an injury. The coach plans around these instead of waiting for them to derail you.
- '''What previous attempts taught us''' — what you tried, roughly how many times, where it usually broke down, what got in the way, and what worked. This is what stops it from cheerfully suggesting the exact thing that burned you out last time.
Your goal weight, pace, activity level, diet style and never-eat list are also part of what it sees, but those are plan settings — you change them in Health Settings, alongside the rest of your plan.
== Where each answer came from == Every answer is labelled with its source and the date you gave it:
- '''You told us at setup''' — from the interview when you started.
- '''You edited it''' — you changed it later in Preferences or Health Settings.
- '''You confirmed it in a chat with your coach''' — see below.
Some older answers are dated ''around'' a day rather than on it. That is deliberate. We only started recording exact dates in August 2026, so anything from before then is dated from your account record, which is right to within a session for most people and wrong for anyone who edited an answer later. We would rather say "around 3 March" than state a day we do not actually know.
== Why the dates matter == An answer you gave eighteen months ago is not the same kind of evidence as one you gave last week. Once an answer is more than six months old, your coach stops treating it as certain and asks instead — "when you started you mentioned evening snacking, is that still the hard part?" — rather than telling you about a commute you no longer have.
== The coach never saves anything on its own == If you mention something durable in a conversation — a new thing that gets in your way, or that you would rather be spoken to differently — the coach may offer to remember it. It shows you exactly what it would save and waits. Nothing is written unless you tap to confirm, and anything saved that way is labelled as having come from a chat.
It will not record a passing mood. "This week has been rough" is not a durable fact about you, and your coach is told not to treat it as one.
== Where to find it == Open '''More''' → '''Preferences''' → '''What your coach knows'''. Every answer is listed with its source and date, and each one has a '''Forget this''' button. Forgetting removes the answer and the record of when you gave it, together, and your coach stops using it from the next message onwards. You can answer it again any time.
On the web, the same list is on the Health Settings page, under '''Your coach''' → '''What your coach knows'''.
== Changing an answer instead of deleting it == Deleting is not the only option — you can simply give a different answer, and changing one updates its date, so a fresh answer is treated as fresh.
- '''iPhone''': '''More''' → '''Health Settings''', where "Why you're doing this", "How you want to be coached" and "What gets in the way" sit alongside the rest of your plan.
- '''Android''': '''More''' → '''Your History''', which holds the same questions.
- '''Web''': the Health Settings page, under '''Your coach'''.
== What leaves the app == When you use the coach, this profile is sent along with your message so the reply can be about you. It is not used to train anyone's models, not used to advertise to you, and not sold. If you would rather none of it left the app, don't use the coach — the trackers, charts and reports all work without it.
See also: [[Help Me]], [[Onboarding and first setup]], [[Settings]]
''Part of the [[Using the iOS app|Loopa iOS app]] guide.'' Your coach answers in your terms rather than in general, and it can only do that because of what you told it at setup. This page is the plain answer to a fair question: what does it actually know, where did each piece come from, and how do you change or delete any of it. == The short version == Everything your coach knows about you is something you typed or picked. Nothing is guessed, inferred from your behaviour, or written by the AI. You can read the whole list, and delete any part of it, at any time. == What it holds == Beyond the numbers you log day to day, your coach is given the answers from your setup interview: * '''Why you are doing this''' — the reason you picked, and anything you wrote in your own words. If you write your own, the coach quotes it back rather than paraphrasing it. * '''How you want to be coached''' — straight with you, gently, numbers first, or encouragement first. It follows this even when it would have said things differently. * '''What tends to get in the way''' — travel, shift work, stress, an injury. The coach plans around these instead of waiting for them to derail you. * '''What previous attempts taught us''' — what you tried, roughly how many times, where it usually broke down, what got in the way, and what worked. This is what stops it from cheerfully suggesting the exact thing that burned you out last time. Your goal weight, pace, activity level, diet style and never-eat list are also part of what it sees, but those are plan settings — you change them in Health Settings, alongside the rest of your plan. == Where each answer came from == Every answer is labelled with its source and the date you gave it: * '''You told us at setup''' — from the interview when you started. * '''You edited it''' — you changed it later in Preferences or Health Settings. * '''You confirmed it in a chat with your coach''' — see below. Some older answers are dated ''around'' a day rather than on it. That is deliberate. We only started recording exact dates in August 2026, so anything from before then is dated from your account record, which is right to within a session for most people and wrong for anyone who edited an answer later. We would rather say "around 3 March" than state a day we do not actually know. == Why the dates matter == An answer you gave eighteen months ago is not the same kind of evidence as one you gave last week. Once an answer is more than six months old, your coach stops treating it as certain and asks instead — "when you started you mentioned evening snacking, is that still the hard part?" — rather than telling you about a commute you no longer have. == The coach never saves anything on its own == If you mention something durable in a conversation — a new thing that gets in your way, or that you would rather be spoken to differently — the coach may offer to remember it. It shows you exactly what it would save and waits. Nothing is written unless you tap to confirm, and anything saved that way is labelled as having come from a chat. It will not record a passing mood. "This week has been rough" is not a durable fact about you, and your coach is told not to treat it as one. == Where to find it == Open '''More''' → '''Preferences''' → '''What your coach knows'''. Every answer is listed with its source and date, and each one has a '''Forget this''' button. Forgetting removes the answer and the record of when you gave it, together, and your coach stops using it from the next message onwards. You can answer it again any time. On the web, the same list is on the Health Settings page, under '''Your coach''' → '''What your coach knows'''. == Changing an answer instead of deleting it == Deleting is not the only option — you can simply give a different answer, and changing one updates its date, so a fresh answer is treated as fresh. * '''iPhone''': '''More''' → '''Health Settings''', where "Why you're doing this", "How you want to be coached" and "What gets in the way" sit alongside the rest of your plan. * '''Android''': '''More''' → '''Your History''', which holds the same questions. * '''Web''': the Health Settings page, under '''Your coach'''. == What leaves the app == When you use the coach, this profile is sent along with your message so the reply can be about you. It is not used to train anyone's models, not used to advertise to you, and not sold. If you would rather none of it left the app, don't use the coach — the trackers, charts and reports all work without it. See also: [[Help Me]], [[Onboarding and first setup]], [[Settings]]
