Questions, answered.

It keeps each person’s current age easy to see, organizes family members by relationship, tracks birthdays and anniversaries, creates personal photo galleries, and preserves meaningful details for loved ones who have passed away.

The app is designed around information stored on your device rather than a public family profile. iCloud backup can be enabled separately using the Apple account already connected to the device.

You can organize children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, spouses, parents, grandparents, siblings, aunts and uncles, nieces and nephews, and other important family relationships.

Yes. Depending on your settings, ages can be displayed in years, years and months, or with additional day-level detail.

Enter a birth date once. Across the Ages uses the current date to continually calculate that person’s age, so the number stays current without manual updates.

Yes. The displayed age updates as time passes. Birthdays, months, and optional day-level detail are recalculated from the stored birth date.

Upcoming Events can bring together birthdays, anniversaries, and expected family members. Reminder settings let you decide which events matter and how far in advance you want to be notified.

Yes. Marriage dates can be stored so the app can show the anniversary and the length of the marriage.

Yes. Each person can have a personal gallery with photos from different stages of life, creating a visual timeline that grows over time.

When a reliable photo date is available, the app can compare it with the person’s birth date and calculate their age at the time of the picture. You can review or enter the year or age manually when photo information is missing.

The app can show when the person passed away, how old they were when they passed, how long they have been gone, and how old they would be today. Photos and memorial notes can remain connected to their profile.

No. They remain part of the family record and can continue to appear with their photos, relationships, dates, and memorial information.

You can use familiar iPhone protections such as Face ID and the device passcode or an app backup PIN, depending on the options enabled in the app.

When enabled, the app creates a restorable copy in the iCloud account connected to the device. Backup and restore controls remain in the app’s Settings area.

Yes. Export creates a family file that you can send using the sharing method you choose. The recipient can import that file instead of entering the same family information from scratch.

Yes. The app includes controls for removing family data and starting over. Exported files and copies stored outside the app must be deleted separately wherever you saved or shared them.