Privacy Policy
PhotoDeDupe is an iOS app that finds duplicate photos and videos in your library, ranks them by quality, and helps you free up storage. This policy explains what information the app stores, how it is used, and the choices you have.
PhotoDeDupe uses your information only to provide the app experience: scanning the photo library, computing perceptual fingerprints, finding duplicate groups, optionally verifying matches with Vision and ranking quality on-device, and surfacing results so you can review and remove duplicates yourself.
The app also stores limited local state such as detection-sensitivity preference, free-scan usage, and whether PhotoDeDupe Pro is unlocked on your device.
All scanning runs on-device. Image fingerprints, Vision feature prints, and quality scores are computed locally and cached to a local database so subsequent scans are faster.
The app does not require a hosted account, remote sync, analytics SDK, or ad network. Your photos never leave your phone.
PhotoDeDupe requests access to your Photos library to read assets and detect duplicates. Removing duplicates is performed through the standard iOS Photos delete flow, which always asks you to confirm before deleting.
The app uses Photos access only for features you start, such as scanning, reviewing, or removing duplicates.
Pro users get an additional AI verification pass using Apple's Vision framework
(VNGenerateImageFeaturePrintRequest) and a quality-ranking pass using Vision
saliency and on-device blur detection. On supported iOS versions, a short cleanup summary
may be generated on-device using the Foundation Models framework.
All of these features run entirely on your device. No image data, filenames, or thumbnails are sent to any server.
When you choose to remove duplicates, PhotoDeDupe asks iOS to delete the selected assets. iOS then shows its own system confirmation dialog. Deleted items move to the Photos Recently Deleted album for 30 days before they are permanently removed by iOS.
To reclaim storage immediately, open Photos → Albums → Recently Deleted and empty that album. PhotoDeDupe never bypasses the iOS delete confirmation.
PhotoDeDupe offers optional paid upgrades, including weekly, yearly, and lifetime Pro access. Payments, subscription billing, renewals, and refunds are handled by Apple. PhotoDeDupe does not receive your full payment card information.
PhotoDeDupe does not track you across third-party apps or websites and does not use any third-party analytics or advertising SDKs. The app privacy manifest declares no collected data types and no tracking domains.
PhotoDeDupe relies only on Apple system frameworks and services such as:
These services are governed by Apple's own terms, privacy policy, and device settings.
If you contact support by email, your email address and the contents of your message are used only to respond to your request and troubleshoot the issue you reported.
PhotoDeDupe is intended for general photo-library cleanup and is not directed to children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children through the app.
This policy may be updated from time to time. The latest version will be posted on this page with a revised effective date.
If you have questions about this Privacy Policy or how PhotoDeDupe handles your information, email lnguyen@plnguyen.com.