Delete your data from US Citizenship & Civics Test
US Citizenship & Civics Test works without a user account. Here is how to delete your data yourself—and how to ask us to delete any data we hold. Up to version 1.1, the app’s name on the App Store is “US Citizenship Preparation”.
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In short
Your content lives on your device. We have no access to this data, so you can delete it yourself at any time, without having to contact us.
- To delete data on iPhone and iPad, delete the app.
- If you back up your device, the app’s data may also be included in those backups; you manage your backups yourself (see Device backups).
- The only data we usually hold is email you have sent us—and you can ask us to delete that at any time, too.
Delete data on your device
On iPhone and iPad, deleting an app also removes all data it has stored locally on the device:
- On the Home Screen, touch and hold the app icon until the menu opens.
- Tap Remove App, then Delete App.
- Confirm with Delete.
Alternatively, go to Settings → General → iPhone Storage (or iPad Storage), select the app and tap Delete App. Note that “Offload App” keeps your data.
From version 1.2, you can also erase your progress for one test in the app without deleting the app: “Settings → Progress → Reset progress for the 2025 civics test” (or the 2008 test) clears mastered questions, the missed list, where you stopped and the mock interview results for that test. Saved questions are kept.
Device backups
If you back up your device with iCloud Backup or to a computer, those backups can also contain the app’s locally stored data; according to Apple, iCloud Backup includes the data of the apps you have downloaded to your device (What does iCloud back up?(opens in a new tab)). These copies remain when you delete the app and can return to the device if you restore a backup. You manage your backups yourself; we have no access to them. Apple explains how to remove a single app’s data from your iCloud Backup and how to delete a backup on a computer: Manage your iCloud storage(opens in a new tab) and Locate and manage backups(opens in a new tab).
Cancel subscriptions
Deleting an app or its data does not cancel an active subscription. Subscriptions are billed exclusively by the respective store; we cannot cancel them for you.
App Store: the easiest way to cancel is in Settings → [your name] → Subscriptions. For other ways to cancel and more details, see Apple’s instructions(opens in a new tab).
Ask us to delete data
None of our apps offers a user account, so there is no account you would need to delete. If you would like us to delete data we hold—usually just emails you have sent us—write to info@aploapps.com and include:
- the name of the app (US Citizenship & Civics Test)
- the email address you used to contact us
- optionally, a short description of your request
You’ll hear back from us—usually within two business days—with the next steps, and we confirm once the deletion is complete. We may ask you to verify that the request really comes from you. Any data we must keep by law is restricted from further use until the retention period ends, then deleted.
To learn more about which data we process in the first place, see the privacy policy for US Citizenship & Civics Test.