Safey Guides

Practical ways to keep your photos, passwords and personal data private on iPhone.

How to Free Up Storage on iPhone Without Deleting Your Photos

Reclaim gigabytes without losing a memory — offload media, clear hidden space hogs, and keep private photos off your camera roll and encrypted.

Clean up backups, large files, and photos — and keep your private photos in an encrypted vault instead of iCloud entirely.

An honest side-by-side on price, encryption, and what each stores — and why Safey's full vault is free.

How the two compare on price, encryption, and scope — and which fits what you need.

iOS can lock apps behind Face ID — but the lock falls to anyone who knows your passcode. Here's what it protects, and what it doesn't.

A second code that opens a different, empty vault. For the moment when refusing to unlock isn't an option.

Your iPhone counts failed passcode attempts but never tells you. Here's how to actually find out — with a photo.

It's locked, but it isn't invisible — it still syncs to iCloud and still opens with your passcode. Here's exactly who can see it.

How the built-in Hidden album works, why it isn't truly private, and how to lock personal photos behind Face ID.

What actually makes a photo vault secure — on-device encryption, Face ID, and hiding more than photos — and how to choose.

What the built-in lock can and can't do, and how to truly protect private pictures behind a separate Face ID.

Three ways to hide apps — the App Library, the Face-ID Hidden folder, and the one thing hiding an app won't do.