A helping hand
Support
Need help, found a bug, or have a story to tell us? Email support@alifeinprose.com — a real person reads every message. Please include your iPhone model and iOS version if something isn't working.
Frequently asked questions
Where are my lives saved?
On your iPhone only. The game has no account and no server. Every choice saves automatically, with a recovery backup.
How do I start a new life?
Open the Reading room (top right) → Begin a different life. Your current life is placed on your bookshelf; you can resume an unfinished life later.
Can I move my lives to a new phone?
Your saves travel with your normal iPhone backup (iCloud or computer backup) when you restore it to a new device.
How do I delete everything?
Reading room → Privacy and saved data → Delete all local stories. This removes your lives, backups, bookshelf, and milestones. Export any biography you want to keep first with Share.
The text is too small / too large.
Reading room → Reading size, or change your iPhone's text size in Settings → Display & Brightness → Text Size.
Is there sound?
A typewriter key for each choice and a page turning for each year (both off by default, in the Reading room), and eleven ambiences to read by — rain, a brook, the sea, a summer night — from the menu at the top of the page. All respect silent mode.
Refunds.
Purchases are handled by Apple. Request a refund at reportaproblem.apple.com.
Is there an Android version?
Not yet.