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Description: Passive smartphone measures hold significant potential and are increasingly employed in psychological and biomedical research to capture an individual's behavior. However, utilizing passive smartphone measures presents methodological challenges during data collection and analysis. Researchers are faced with multiple decisions when working with such measures, which can result in different conclusions. Unfortunately, the transparency of these decision-making processes is often lacking. Although there have been some attempts to preregister digital phenotyping studies, a template for registering such studies is currently missing. This could be problematic due to the high level of complexity that requires a well-structured template. Here we propose a preregistration template that is easy to use and understandable for researchers.