In my opinion, if not for privacy concerns, Spark is probaby one of the best third-party email clients on iOS, along with Canary and Airmail. This issue was also discussed in a blog post last year. The real update in 2.0 was to enforce the data exploitation. Spark just silently upload all credentials to their servers without any ‘explicit consent’ and without opting into Team Services. However, since they introduced Team Services in Spark 2.0, there has been no such option anywhere. To delete it, you can either disable “Allow Notifications” switch in Spark Settings or delete Spark from your iPhone. Also, if you enabled Push Notification on first launch, we will transfer the information needed to access your account to our server. Please note that this will disable other server side features as well. Spark will not send your account information to our servers if you decide to not use Push Notifications when adding your account for the first time. It’s a valid question and, in the next update of Spark, we will change this behaviour. Some people raised a question about why do we store access tokens even if you have decided not to use Push Notifications. In the official blog post by their co-founder Alex Tyagulsky, they promised to give users the option to not storing account credentials on their servers, as quoted below: To summarise these concerning paragraphs, our email account credentials and email contents are always stored on their server for some features to function, even if we do not opt into these features, such as Team Services and Push Notifications. However, Spark Services are always used regardless if we the team features, as indicated in (2). From the first sight, we might mistake Spark Services with Team Services due to the wording in (3). We can see that the email content while using Spark Services is stored on their server from (3). The ‘bad guy’ here is the so-called Spark Services, which is not even explicitly defined anywhere. This information is stored on our secure servers in order to make Services available to you, so you can collaborate with your teammates around email. It allows you to have a secure space where you share information such as email conversations, shared email drafts, have private discussions, or create links to specific emails. (3) Email content while using Spark Services: We allow you and your colleagues to create teams within the Service. Without using these services, none of the features mentioned above will function. In order for you to take full advantage of additional App and Service features, such as “send later”, “sync between devices” and where allowed by Apple – “push notifications” we use Spark Services. Without such access, our Product won’t be able to provide you with the necessary communication experience. (2) OAuth login or mail server credentials: Spark requires your credentials to log into your mail system in order to receive, search, compose and send email messages and other communication. Consequently, “We”, “Us” and “Ours” refers to the Data Controller. (the “Data Controller” of your personal data). (1) Spark Application (the “App”) and Spark for Teams Service (the “Service”) are brought to you by Readdle, Inc. The relevant parts are quoted here in the following three paragraphs. So I did some research on their Privacy Policy, which is quite concerning. But recently I became more privacy aware. This makes Canary Mail a great all-in-one app that focuses on security.I really wanted to use the iOS email client by Readdle. To go with these great features, you can also use Canary Mail in dark mode and access your iOS calendar within the app.
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