Privacy Mode

How to use privacy mode in Forbidden Finance to hide monetary amounts on your dashboard and protect against shoulder surfing.

Overview

Privacy mode hides all monetary amounts in the Forbidden Finance app behind a blur. When you are in a public place, on a train, or anywhere someone might glance at your screen, privacy mode ensures your balances, transaction amounts, budget progress, and net worth are not visible. You can peek at individual cards by tapping them without revealing everything else.

Privacy mode is a single-tap feature that works instantly across the entire app. It is designed for situations where you want to quickly check something in the app without exposing your full financial picture.

How to Use Privacy Mode

Activate privacy mode

Tap the eye icon in the app bar at the top of the dashboard. All monetary amounts throughout the app are immediately hidden behind a blur effect.

Peek at specific information

While privacy mode is active, tap any card, widget, or transaction row to temporarily reveal its amounts. Only the item you tap becomes visible -- everything else remains blurred.

Deactivate privacy mode

Tap the eye icon again to reveal all amounts across the app.

What Privacy Mode Hides

Hidden	Still Visible
Account balances	Account names
Transaction amounts	Transaction merchants and categories
Budget remaining/spent amounts	Budget category names and progress bar percentages
Net worth total and changes	Net worth trend direction (up/down)
Goal progress amounts	Goal names and completion percentage
Bill amounts	Bill names and due dates

When to Use Privacy Mode

Privacy mode is useful whenever you open the app around other people:

Commuting on public transportation
At work when colleagues are nearby
In a cafe or shared workspace
During a meeting when you need to quickly check a bill due date
With friends or family who you do not want seeing your balances

Tips

Get in the habit of tapping the eye icon first whenever you open the app in public. It takes one tap and gives you peace of mind while you check your finances.

Combine privacy mode with biometric unlock for the strongest protection in public. Biometric unlock prevents access to the app, and privacy mode prevents visual snooping once you are in.

The tap-to-peek feature is useful for targeted checks. For example, you can peek at just your checking account balance to see if a payment cleared without revealing your full net worth or savings.

Privacy mode is a per-session toggle and does not persist when you close and reopen the app. Each time you open the app, amounts are visible by default. This prevents you from leaving privacy mode on permanently and forgetting that your data is hidden.

Frequently Asked Questions

Does privacy mode hide data on all screens, or just the dashboard?

Privacy mode hides monetary amounts across the entire app, including the dashboard, transaction list, account details, budget screens, goals, and net worth views. It is a global toggle.

Can someone still see my data if they take a screenshot?

On mobile devices (iOS and Android), Forbidden Finance automatically blocks screenshots and screen recording. Screenshots appear blank. This protection works independently of privacy mode and is always active.

Can I leave privacy mode on by default?

Privacy mode resets each time you open the app. This is intentional -- always-on privacy mode would defeat its purpose since you might forget amounts are hidden and miss important information. The one-tap toggle makes it easy to activate whenever you need it.

No. Privacy mode is local to your device and your current session. It does not affect how household members see shared data on their own devices.

Not as a persistent setting, but the tap-to-peek feature works at the widget level. You can selectively reveal individual widgets while keeping everything else blurred. This gives you widget-level control during each session.

Explore the Dashboard

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Biometric Unlock

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Security Overview

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Session Management

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