Approvals and control

Change it in Settings ▸ Policy. The Approvals screen always says what waits in the mode you are in.

In Don't ask, a text or email Twinly sends on its own first shows in the notch for 5 seconds as the real message, so you can stop it or edit it. Everything it sent stays in the chat as it went out, and a text's card says whether it was delivered. You can turn the preview off in Settings.

Two kinds of work skip the preview, because nobody is at the Mac to see it: an answer to someone who texted @twinly, and a job from your own code through the Developer API.

• Family. Texts, emails and payments to family, like Mom, Dad or a group named Family, always wait for your OK, with no countdown.
• Spending over your limit. A payment over your Never spend over amount always waits. One honest limit: Twinly cannot read the total behind a website's checkout button, so the limit cannot stop one of those. Use an asking mode if every purchase should wait.
• Its questions. When the twin needs you to decide something, it asks and waits. Not now puts a question away, and a question leaves on its own after half an hour.

In the asking modes, payments up to your auto-approve amount go through without a card; anything above it waits.

A held step shows as the app it lands in: a Mail draft with its recipients, a blue iMessage bubble, a call card with the goal and opening line, a calendar event. It appears in the notch, on the Approvals screen, and as a notification. Approve it, edit it, or choose Not now.

• Editing a draft means the original never goes out as it was.
• A card from a task you stopped never sends.
• Replays of tasks the twin has learned pass through the same rules as a fresh run.

Already done, under the approvals list, is the record of what Twinly did for you. Calendar events, reminders, and file changes have an Undo for 30 minutes: an event or reminder is removed by its exact identity, a changed file gets its previous contents back, and a file the twin created goes to the Trash, never deleted outright.

Sent messages, emails, calls, and payments cannot be undone, and the list says so plainly instead of offering a button that cannot deliver.

A task that stops partway (you pressed Stop, a step failed, or you declined one) keeps a record of what it already did. Open it and choose Pick up where it stopped: it carries on from there, works around anything you declined, and never sends anything a second time. Start over runs it from the beginning instead.

• Stop a running task from the island or the app, instantly.
• End a call, or mute your twin, from the island at any moment.
• Decline a card and nothing goes out.
• Quit the app and the twin does nothing until you reopen it. A task that a quit cut off is marked as stopped, never finished in the background.

Every action is also written to a local, tamper-evident log: each entry carries a hash of the one before it, so a record edited after the fact is detectable.