Blind Mode
One switch that stops a patient seeing what they logged: no photos, no written logs, no meal times, no day badges, no progress bar. They can still log and check in; you still see everything.
Some patients cannot look at their own food log without it becoming something else. The calendar stops being a record and starts being a scoreboard: how many meals yesterday, how many today, which days were complete, when the run broke. Blind Mode takes that surface away without taking away the logging.
Nothing is deleted, nothing stops syncing, and your dashboard is unchanged. Every photo, log, time and check-in still reaches you exactly as before. This is a display rule on the patient's phone.
Turning it on
It lives on the Customizations tab, in the Care approach card, as Patient can see what they logged. On is the default. Switch it off to turn Blind Mode on.
It is independent of the care approach, so it works alongside structured, intuitive, ARFID, or treatment mode.
What the patient stops seeing
Specifically, all of this goes:
| Surface | Why it counts as seeing what they logged |
|---|---|
| Meal photos and written logs | The obvious one. |
| The time under each meal | A row of times is a legible account of the day even with every picture hidden. |
| The 💛 on meals they ate | Countable. Two hearts yesterday against four today is exactly the comparison being removed. |
| Gold stars and "showed up" badges on the month grid | A month of eating at a glance: which days were complete, which were thin, where the run broke. |
| The day's progress bar | It is a fill of the day's logged calories, so it reports how much they ate even with every picture hidden. |
| The Past days history in the log sheet | A scrollable archive of every finished day, grouped by date. |
| Past meals in Settings → Deleted photos | The one screen that renders straight from the file. The rows stay so they can still restore or permanently delete; the picture and food name go. |
What the patient keeps
This is the line that matters clinically, so it is drawn deliberately:
- Logging. Camera, describe-it, and skip all work exactly as before.
- The meal they are logging right now. Today's own entries stay visible in the log sheet. A patient has to be able to see the meal they are checking in on, and a mode that hides it would make the check-in unanswerable.
- Check-ins. Every question still appears. If the post-meal reminder fires after midnight, the questions still open, without the photo.
- Mood check-ins, the journal, goals, and the daily plan. None of these are food, and none of them move. This is why Blind Mode hides the food on the calendar rather than hiding the calendar: the screen is also the only way into the mood check-in and the diary.
Blind Mode does not touch the progress bar on the patient's home screen. That bar is one fill for
today in progress, with no number attached and nothing to compare against another day, and it has
its own control: set Progress bar to none on the patient's Customizations tab if you want no
progress feedback anywhere. The bar Blind Mode does remove is the one on the calendar, which was
drawn per selected day and so could be read off one day against another.
Days the patient journalled still show their badge. Journalling is not eating, and the streak of it is worth keeping visible.
What you see
Everything. The dashboard is untouched: photos, written logs, times, check-in answers, calorie and nutrient estimates, adherence, and the day and week views all behave exactly as they do for any other patient. Blind Mode is not a data-sharing setting.
When to reach for it
The patient can describe yesterday's log meal by meal from memory, or checks the calendar repeatedly through the day.
Reviewing a completed day reliably turns into "that was too much" or "that was not enough" hours after the fact.
The photo strip is being used to build a case about the day rather than to remember it.
It is not a punishment and it is not a restriction on what they can eat or log. Worth saying out loud to the patient when you turn it on, in those words, because a surface quietly disappearing can read as one.
The app tells them their meals are hidden and safely saved, but it does not say who decided or why. That conversation is yours, and it lands better before the change than after it.
Related
- Care approach — where the switch lives, and the other per-surface toggles.
- Finished-plate photo — stricter than Blind Mode: that photo is never shown to the patient in any mode.
- What you can never see — the reverse direction.