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Location is the whole game: drops are pinned to real places, and the app uses your position to show what's nearby and to unlock a drop when you're physically close to it. If you opt in, your approximate location is also used to find interesting places near you worth telling a story about. You can revoke location access any time in iOS Settings, but the map and unlocking won't work without it. We never sell location data — see the Privacy Policy.

Each drop has an unlock radius — typically a few dozen metres around its pin. When your GPS position falls inside that radius, the drop unlocks and you can listen (once you've heard a drop, it stays unlocked for you). This is deliberate: hearing a story where it happened is the point of MicDrop. If a drop won't unlock even though you're standing right at the pin, GPS drift is the usual culprit — moving a few metres or waiting a moment usually fixes it.

In the app: Profile → Delete account & data. Deletion is permanent and removes your account, your activity, and your drops. You can also email us at the address above and we'll delete it for you.

Open the drop and use the Report option; reported content may be hidden automatically pending review. You can also block a creator from their drop, which hides all of their content from you. For anything urgent — defamation, copyright, or content about you — email us with the drop's title and location and we'll review it promptly.

Seeded stories are short character-voiced tales created by MicDrop from public Wikipedia articles about real places near you — they're clearly labelled in the app and link back to their Wikipedia source (CC BY-SA 4.0). The narrators are fictional characters voiced with AI text-to-speech. The stories are for general interest and may contain inaccuracies.

No. MicDrop works with an anonymous account out of the box — no name, email, or password needed. You can optionally sign in with Apple, Google, or email to keep your drops and badges across devices, and add a display name if you want credit for your drops.