Privacy Policy

Last updated November 12, 2026

The Photo Cleaner helps you find similar photos on your iPhone and choose which to keep and which to delete. This policy explains what happens to your data when you use the app. In short: we don’t collect any of it.

Data we collect

None. The app has no accounts, no sign-in, no analytics, no ads and no third-party code. We never receive your photos, what is in them, their details or how you use the app.

Your photo library

The app asks for access to your photo library so it can find similar photos and delete the ones you choose.

All analysis happens on your iPhone with Apple’s Vision framework. Your photos are not uploaded to us or anyone else. The results — which photos are similar and which one looks best — stay on your iPhone.

If your library is in iCloud Photos, iOS may download a full-size copy from iCloud when you open a photo. Apple handles this download.

Place names

To show city names and let you filter by place, the app asks Apple’s geocoding service, built into iOS, to turn a photo’s location into a place name. For this, the photo’s location (latitude and longitude) is sent to Apple, not to us, and Apple handles it under its own Privacy Policy.

Deleting photos

Nothing is deleted until you confirm it in the iOS dialog. Deleted photos stay in the Recently Deleted album of the Photos app for 30 days, and you can recover them there.

Purchases

The one-time purchase is made through the App Store and processed by Apple. We never see your payment details. The app checks on your iPhone whether the purchase was made.

What stays on your iPhone

So the app works the way you left it, it keeps a few things on your iPhone: the analysis results, the list of photos in its trash, your settings and how many free reviews you have used today. They are not sent to us. Like any app data, they can be part of your iPhone backups. Deleting the app removes them.

Crash reports

If you turn on Share With App Developers in Settings › Privacy & Security › Analytics & Improvements, Apple may share crash reports and app usage statistics with us. They do not identify you. You can turn this off at any time.

Third parties

We don’t sell or share any data, because we don’t have any. The app relies only on Apple’s own frameworks and services — Photos, Vision, the geocoding service and the App Store — and Apple’s Privacy Policy applies to them.

Your choices

You can change or remove the app’s access to your photos at any time in Settings › Privacy & Security › Photos › Photo Cleaner. Deleting the app removes everything it kept on your iPhone. If you have emailed us and want your messages deleted, tell us and we will delete them.

Children

The app is not directed to children under 13 and does not collect personal information from anyone, including children.

Contact

If you write to us, we use your email address and message only to reply. Questions about this policy: support@thephotocleaner.app

Changes

If this policy changes, we will update this page and the date at the top.