Questions and Answers

An iPhone or iPad with iOS 27 or iPadOS 27, or a Mac with macOS 27, and an Apple Account to sign in. Tagging new links needs Apple Intelligence; everything else works without it.

Briefings are written on Briefing’s server, so they’re ready on schedule even when your devices are off. Your account also keeps your feeds, briefings and links the same on every device. You sign in with Apple.

Choose Add Feed… and enter a site’s address or its feed address. Briefing reads RSS, Atom and JSON feeds. To bring your feeds from another reader, choose Import OPML File….

In the morning and the evening, at the times you choose in Settings. Turn either one off if you only want one a day. The schedule is the same on every device.

Yes. Choose Make Briefing, up to three times a day. Scheduled briefings still come.

Articles that are new since the last briefing. Articles you haven’t read or seen come along to the next briefing, so a briefing you skip isn’t lost.

Yes. Turn off Include in Briefings in the feed’s menu or in Edit Feed…. Its articles still show in Timeline. Up to 50 feeds can be in briefings.

Briefings are only made when there are new articles. Each account also has a monthly limit; once it’s reached, no more briefings are made that month, and articles keep coming into Timeline.

The one you choose when you set up Briefing, or later under Briefings in Settings: English, Spanish, French, German, Japanese or Korean.

Turn on Briefing in Safari’s extensions, then use Briefing’s button in the toolbar to save the page to Read Later, Bookmarks or a collection. You can also save from the share sheet in any app.

Yes. Choose Import Links… to bring in bookmarks files from browsers and Raindrop.io, and CSV exports from Raindrop.io, Instapaper and Readwise Reader. You can export your feeds and links for other apps too.

Yes. Your links and collections are encrypted on your devices, so Briefing can’t read them. Collections you share aren’t encrypted yet. Your feeds and briefings aren’t encrypted, since Briefing’s server writes your briefings from them.

Collections that show only after Face ID or Touch ID. Their links are never tagged.

A device signed in to the same Apple Account opens it on its own. On any other device, choose Open Your Library… in the sidebar, or in Library on iPhone. Then approve it on a device that already opens it, after checking both show the same code, or enter your recovery key.

Usually not: your devices get the key through iCloud Keychain, or by approving each other. It’s for a device where iCloud Keychain is off and no other device can approve it. Any device that opens your library can show it: in Settings, choose Privacy, then Show Recovery Key… Briefing can’t recover it for you.

Choose Share… from the collection’s menu and send the invite link. Sharing needs a Briefing account. Each person can view it, or add and edit its links.