Soultime · User-contributed screenshot · resized, content unchanged
Friends nudged automatically, switched on
“Soultime with Friends Settings” explains: “For many of us reaching out is one of the hardest parts. Soultime with Friends discretely nudges your friends automatically when we think you might need a call.” An “Automatic notifications” switch is on, with the note “Select ‘off’ if you would like us to ask you each time before we send your friends a notification.”
Observed in Soultime: app profile, research screenshots and design review.
Design takeaway
Reaching out is hard, and the app tries to help. But an inference about someone’s mood, sent to friends by default, is a disclosure they did not make. Ask each time by default, and say what the friends are told.
What this example establishes
“Soultime with Friends Settings” explains: “For many of us reaching out is one of the hardest parts. Soultime with Friends discretely nudges your friends automatically when we think you might need a call.” An “Automatic notifications” switch is on, with the note “Select ‘off’ if you would like us to ask you each time before we send your friends a notification.”
Limits and further verification
A still image shows one interface state. Gestures, timing, accessibility, persistence and what happens next were not tested. App version not recorded.
Provenance
- Platform
- iOS app · device model not recorded
- Image origin
- User-contributed screenshot · resized, content unchanged
- Source or capture date
- Captured 28 August 2025 · from embedded image metadata
- Reviewed
- 6 October 2026
- Version
- Not recorded
Screenshot captured by Tobias Treppmann for his app-pattern research and supplied for this design reference. Resized for the web; content unchanged. Interface, imagery and Scripture text remain the property of their respective rights holders.
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