Hide Photos & Videos: Vault

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Keep the photos, videos, files, and passwords you'd rather keep private locked away in one app — Private Vault. The "Hidden" album in Photos opens for anyone holding your phone. Real privacy needs a dedicated vault. ■ Full encryption ChaCha20-Poly1305 (RFC 7539) protects every item. The master key lives only in RAM while the app is unlocked, and is zeroed the moment you lock. Without your passcode, nobody — including us — can read your data. Zero-knowledge by design. ■ Layered lock Face ID, Touch ID, and a passcode. The vault locks itself when you leave the app — immediately, or after a delay you choose. Re-enrolling your biometrics invalidates the cached key. Forgot your passcode? Your Vault Key gets you back in — a code only you hold, saved when you set up. We can't do it for you, and that is exactly the point. ■ Photos, videos, and files - Bulk import from Photos, with optional auto-delete of the originals - Shoot photos inside the app — never written to the camera roll - Live Photos, HEIC, and 4K video supported - Import any file from Files — PDFs, documents, archives - Keep or strip GPS metadata, your choice - Recently Deleted holds anything you remove for 30 days ■ Albums - Built-in Favorites, Photos, Videos, and Files albums - Your own albums and nested sub-albums - Rename, pin to the top, set a custom cover, sort by newest or oldest - Deleting an album never deletes your media ■ Passwords - Logins, passwords, and secure notes, encrypted on-device - Strong password generator and strength meter - Optional Have I Been Pwned breach check, off until you switch it on. It uses k-anonymity: only the first 5 characters of your password's SHA-1 hash ever leave the device, and the matching happens on your phone. Never the password, never the full hash. ■ Private Vault Pro — one-time purchase Everything above stays free. Pro adds: - Decoy vault: set a second passcode in Settings. Entered at the same lock screen, it opens a separate vault with its own key and its own content — neither passcode opens the other vault - Break-in photos: wrong-passcode attempts are logged with their time and shown after your next unlock. On supported devices, an optional front-camera photo is sealed with your vault key - Arrange albums and items in your own order - Alternate app icons: Silver and Rose Gold ■ Privacy - Vault contents never reach our servers. Optional iCloud sync (off by default) stores only already-encrypted blobs in your own private iCloud - No ads, no account required - Firebase Crashlytics monitors stability — never vault contents, file bytes, passwords, or filenames - Built on swift-crypto, maintained by Apple