Privacy Policy
The short version: your photos and videos never leave your iPhone. Swept has no accounts, no sign-in, and no servers of its own. The only data that leaves your device is anonymous usage analytics and the standard requests made by Apple (for purchases) and Google (for ads in the free version) — none of which include your photos.
This policy explains how the Swept: Photo & Video Cleaner iOS app ("Swept", "we", "us") handles information. It covers the app available on the Apple App Store. If you have any questions, contact us at [email protected].
Swept asks for permission to access your photo library so you can review, organize, and delete your own photos and videos. All of this happens on your device:
You can revoke photo access at any time in iOS Settings ▸ Privacy & Security ▸ Photos, though the app's core features won't work without it.
The Vault lets you move selected photos and videos out of your photo library and into Swept's private storage on your device, locked behind Face ID, Touch ID, or your device passcode.
We use Google Analytics for Firebase to understand, in aggregate, how the app is used so we can improve it. This includes events such as which features are opened, summary statistics of review sessions (for example how many items were kept or deleted and how much space was freed — never the content itself), whether ads served correctly, and whether a purchase was made.
Alongside these events, Firebase collects standard app-analytics information such as device model, OS version, app version, country, and a random per-install app identifier. This data is not tied to your name or email — Swept has no accounts, and we never know who you are. Analytics data is processed by Google on our behalf and retained for a limited period. You can read more in Google's Privacy Policy.
The free version of Swept shows ads served by Google AdMob: a small banner and an occasional full-screen ad between review sessions. To serve and measure ads and to prevent fraud, Google may process device information (such as model and OS version), your IP address (which implies a coarse location), and interactions with the ads themselves.
Swept does not request the iOS App Tracking Transparency permission, so it does not provide advertisers access to your device's advertising identifier for cross-app tracking. For details on how Google uses this data, see How Google uses information from sites or apps that use its services.
Purchasing Swept Pro removes all ads permanently.
Swept Pro is a one-time in-app purchase processed entirely by Apple through the App Store. We never see or store your name, payment details, or billing address. Your entitlement is tied to your Apple account, so you can restore it on a new device with Settings ▸ Restore Purchases inside the app.
If you enable reminders, Swept schedules local notifications on your device (for example a weekly cleanup nudge). These are created and stored by iOS on your device — no push servers are involved — and you can turn them off any time in the app's settings or in iOS Settings ▸ Notifications.
Everything the app stores about your library — your review progress, vault items, settings, and staged deletions — lives on your device and is deleted when you delete the app. Anonymous analytics events are retained by Firebase for a limited period and then deleted or aggregated automatically. If you have a privacy question or request, contact us at [email protected] and we'll do our best to help.
Swept is not directed at children under 13 (or the equivalent minimum age in your region), and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children.
If we change how Swept handles data, we will update this page and its effective date. Meaningful changes will also be noted in the App Store release notes of the version that introduces them.
For privacy questions or requests, email [email protected] or visit our support page.