Privacy Policy
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Unclog collects no data: nothing about you, your photos and videos, or how you use the app. It works on your iPhone and sends nothing about you or your photos over the internet. There’s no account, no advertising, no analytics and no tracking, and the app contains no third-party code.
What Unclog does on your iPhone
With your permission, Unclog uses your photo library to:
- Measure the space each photo and video takes, and list the largest.
- Show photos and videos, as thumbnails and full screen.
- Delete the photos and videos you choose. iOS asks you to confirm, and Photos keeps deleted items in Recently Deleted for 30 days.
- Make a video you choose smaller. The app writes a copy of the video at a lower quality, with the original’s details, such as when and where it was taken, and its albums. iOS asks you to confirm before the copy takes the original’s place, and the original moves to Recently Deleted.
Before writing a smaller video, the app checks how much free space your iPhone has. It writes the copy in its own temporary folder, and deletes that file when it’s done or, if writing stopped, the next time you open the app.
So it opens faster, Unclog keeps what it measured on your iPhone: for each photo and video, the identifier iOS gives it on this iPhone, its size, whether it’s a photo or a video, its date, how long a video lasts, its dimensions and whether it’s a RAW photo. It keeps no pictures and no places. This file never leaves your iPhone: it isn’t sent anywhere or included in your backups, and iOS may clear it when space runs low. The app keeps it only while it has access to all your photos; if you allow only some or none, it deletes the file the next time you open it.
iCloud
If you use iCloud Photos, some originals may be only in iCloud. To show one of them, or to make one of those videos smaller, iOS downloads it from your own iCloud account, directly between your iPhone and Apple. Changes you make in Unclog, such as deleting an item or replacing a video with a smaller one, sync with iCloud and your other devices, as any change in Photos does.
Unclog’s developer never receives your photos, your videos or anything about them. How Apple handles iCloud data is described in Apple’s Privacy Policy.
Purchases
Unclog is free to download. Making videos smaller is free for your first two videos; after that, a one-time in-app purchase unlocks it. Apple sells it in the App Store with your Apple Account, so Unclog’s developer never receives your name, your email address or your payment details. To show the price and to know whether you bought it, the app asks the App Store, which answers through iOS.
On your iPhone, the app keeps one number: how many videos it made smaller for free, so it knows when the free ones are used. Like any app’s settings, it goes into your iPhone’s backups, and deleting the app removes it.
Your permission
Unclog asks for access to your photo library, which it needs to find your largest photos and videos. You can allow access to all your photos, to some of them or to none, and change your choice at any time in Settings > Apps > Unclog > Photos.
Sharing, keeping and deleting data
Unclog collects nothing, so it shares nothing with anyone, and its developer has nothing of yours to delete. What the app measured and its count of free videos stay on your iPhone, as described above. Deleting the app removes its files from your iPhone, that one included; your photos and videos stay in Photos.
Children
Unclog collects no data from anyone, including children.
This website
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Changes to this policy
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Contact
Unclog is made by Luis Montoya. For questions about privacy, write to luismec90+unclog@gmail.com. If you write, your email address and message are used only to reply to you, are never shared, and are deleted if you ask.