Effective date: 6 May 2026

PhotoSwiper is built around one promise: your photos and videos stay on your device. They are never uploaded, never copied to any server, never shared with anyone — including us.

Summary

• We never see, collect, or transmit your photos or videos. They stay on your device.
• We do not run any backend or cloud service of our own.
• There are no accounts, logins, or memberships.
• We do not collect personal data such as your name, email, contacts, or location.
• There are no ads, no analytics, no telemetry, and no third-party SDKs.
• Your photos and videos never leave your device.

What the app accesses

PhotoSwiper requests the following permissions through the iOS system:

• Photos (Read & Write) — required to show your photos and videos in the app and to delete the ones you confirm. Deletion goes through Apple's standard system confirmation; items are held in "Recently Deleted" for 30 days before permanent removal.
• Face ID / Touch ID — optional, only if you enable the in-app lock. Biometric authentication is handled entirely by iOS; we never see your biometric data.

Data storage

PhotoSwiper stores only your app preferences (selected filter, sort order, lock setting, onboarding state) using Apple's UserDefaults. These are local to your device and can be removed at any time by deleting the app.

Network behavior

PhotoSwiper does not include any networking, analytics, telemetry, advertising SDK, or backend code. The app itself makes no network calls. The only network activity that can occur is iOS fetching your own photos from your iCloud account when iCloud Photos is enabled (see below).

iCloud Photos

If you use iCloud Photos, some of your photos and videos may live in iCloud rather than fully on your device. When PhotoSwiper needs to display one of those items, iOS itself fetches the original from your iCloud account — the same way the built-in Photos app does — so you can see the full-resolution image and decide whether to keep or delete it.

To be clear about what this means: