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Export or delete all my data

JSON and CSV, and a clean delete.

Export gives you a copy of everything you entered or connected in Forma, as files, to keep or to use somewhere else. Delete wipes Forma clean, either on this phone alone or together with the iCloud backup, and sends you back to the first-run screen.

You find both at the bottom of Settings > Data & backup.

When to use it

  • You want a copy of your whole history to hold yourself, or to take to another tool.
  • You are moving to a new phone and also want a copy beyond the iCloud backup.
  • You want to start over with an empty Forma.
  • You are finishing with Forma, or handing the phone to someone else.

Step by step

Export all my data

  1. Open Forma, then open Settings.
  2. Tap Data & backup.
  3. Tap Export all my data. A message shows "Preparing your export…" while the file is built.
  4. When it is ready, the standard iOS share sheet opens. Choose where the files go: for example Save to Files, or AirDrop to another device.

What you get is one export file: everything in it, as JSON, plus lists of your food, workouts and weight as CSV files you can open as spreadsheets.

Delete all my data

  1. In Settings > Data & backup, tap Delete all my data….
  2. A first question, "Delete all your data?", asks you to confirm. Tap Continue to move on, or Cancel to stop.
  3. A second step asks again, with a heading that says plainly: this cannot be undone. It offers two buttons, Delete from this phone and iCloud and Delete from this phone only. Choose the one you want.
  4. Forma removes your profile, meals, workouts, weigh-ins and settings from this phone and shows an "Everything was deleted" summary of what is gone. Tap OK and Settings closes. Forma then shows its first-run screen.

Good to know

  • The iCloud backup is a separate copy. If you choose "Delete from this phone only", your backup stays in your iCloud, so you can restore later on this or another phone. If you choose "Delete from this phone and iCloud", that backup is deleted too.
  • If you use Forma Power, deleting everything also removes your online Forma account: your Garmin connection, your registered phones, this phone's key and your online AI permission. If the app could not remove the online account because there was no connection, it says so and offers a Try again button.
  • The export covers what you typed and what Forma computed, from the data on this phone. Meal photos, and data synced from a server you set up yourself, are not included.
  • You do not need to delete everything for a fresh start with your plan. Changing coaches, training or diet goals is in Settings, and none of it touches your history.

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