Your photos stay on your iPhone. CleanSwipe analyses your library on the device itself. Nothing is uploaded, and there is no account to create.
CleanSwipe needs to read your photo library to find anything at all. It asks only when you tap to scan — never on the first launch screen.
If you declined earlier, or want to change what CleanSwipe can see:
Limited Access works. CleanSwipe analyses only the photos you selected and says so on screen, so the numbers always describe what it can actually see.
A category showing “Nothing to review” means CleanSwipe looked and found nothing of that kind — that is a real result, not an error. A category showing “Unavailable” means the analysis could not run; these are deliberately shown differently so a missing measurement is never presented as a clean library.
CleanSwipe never removes anything by itself. You mark items, review the full selection, then confirm. iOS then asks you to confirm again. Only after both confirmations does anything leave your library.
They go to Recently Deleted in the Photos app, where iOS keeps them for about 30 days.
Shared library items and some system-managed media cannot be removed from another app. CleanSwipe reports exactly how many succeeded and how many did not, and leaves the failures selected so you can try again or handle them in Photos.
Scanning, the dashboard, every category count and a meaningful amount of cleanup are free. Pro removes the daily cleanup limit and unlocks similar-photo review, possibly-blurry review, video compression, unlimited Swipe Clean sessions and the full cleanup history.
Weekly and Annual are auto-renewing subscriptions. Lifetime is a single purchase that does not renew. Prices are shown in your local currency, supplied by the App Store.
If you reinstalled the app or switched devices, tap Restore Purchases. It is on the CleanSwipe Pro screen and in Settings → Restore Purchases inside the app.
Subscriptions are managed by Apple, not inside CleanSwipe:
Deleting the app does not cancel a subscription.
Apple does not cancel a subscription when you make a separate one-time purchase, so buying Lifetime while a subscription renews would charge you for both. CleanSwipe therefore asks you to turn off renewal first, then offers Lifetime. This is deliberate.
Purchases are handled by Apple. Request a refund at reportaproblem.apple.com.
Compression re-encodes a video on your device. Your original is never touched until the new file has been written and checked, and removing the original is always a separate choice you make. Estimated sizes shown beforehand are approximations — the real size is only known once encoding finishes. If a video is already efficiently encoded, the result may not be smaller, and CleanSwipe tells you when that happens.
Photos, videos, thumbnails, EXIF and location data, file names and analysis results never leave your iPhone. CleanSwipe has no advertising, no tracking, no analytics SDK and no account system. The only data that leaves the device is your purchase status, processed by RevenueCat so that CleanSwipe Pro survives a reinstall.
Full details are in the Privacy Policy.
Email [email protected]. Telling us your iPhone model, iOS version and what you were doing when the problem happened helps us answer faster. Please never send photos, passwords or payment details.