---
id: privacy-safety.what-is-anonymous-activity-reporting
url: https://storagestudio.us/faq/privacy-safety/what-is-anonymous-activity-reporting
category: "Privacy & safety"
subcategory: "What leaves your Mac"
question: "What is the “Anonymous activity reporting” row in the Services pane?"
alt_questions:
  - "What does anonymous activity reporting send?"
  - "Storage Studio twice-daily report — what's in it?"
  - "What are the two numbers Storage Studio reports?"
  - "anonymous activity reporting storage studio"
  - "Why does my Services pane mention activity reporting?"
  - "What is the usage heartbeat?"
short_answer: "It's a twice-daily report of two totals — space saved and space moved — with an anonymous machine tag. It never includes file names, folder names, paths or accounts, and it's skipped when you're offline."
tags: ["telemetry", "services pane", "privacy"]
related: ["https://storagestudio.us/faq/privacy-safety/what-does-storage-studio-send-over-the-internet", "https://storagestudio.us/faq/privacy-safety/what-is-the-anonymous-machine-tag"]
applies_to: "all"
last_reviewed: 2026-10-01
---

# What is the “Anonymous activity reporting” row in the Services pane?

It's the twice-daily report that lets Storage Studio show your lifetime totals. It carries just two numbers — how much space the app has saved and how much it has moved — plus an anonymous machine tag. No file names, no folder names, no paths, no accounts.

The row in **Settings → Services** shows whether the last check-in was recent (green) or the next one is still pending (yellow). Nothing is wrong when it's yellow; it simply hasn't reported yet.

The numbers are running totals kept on your Mac, so they can't be turned back into a list of what you did. If you're offline, the report is skipped and sent later.

See the [Privacy Policy](https://storagestudio.us/legal/privacy) for the exact wording, and [Services pane](https://storagestudio.us/manual/preferences) for the other rows.