Your photos stay yours.
Last updated August 2026. This page describes exactly what Paw Cleaner does — nothing more, nothing assumed.
The essentials
Paw Cleaner runs entirely on your phone. No photo, video, or data is sent to a server, to us, or to anyone else — there is, as of today, no network call anywhere in the app.
What the app reads
Paw Cleaner accesses your photo library's metadata (identifier, date, dimensions, duration for videos) through the system's Photos API, in order to show you photos and videos to sort. The content itself (the image or video) is only loaded for on-screen display while you sort — never copied or sent anywhere.
What the app keeps, and where
Your sorting decisions (kept, favorited, marked for deletion) are stored in a local database on this device only. None of it ever leaves your phone — no account, no sync, no third-party backup.
Deletions
A deletion is never automatic: Paw Cleaner only deletes a photo or video after your explicit confirmation, through iOS's own native dialog. It's the operating system, not the app, that performs the actual deletion.
Permissions
The app requests access to Photos (read and write, to sort and delete). You can choose limited access to a selection of photos instead of your entire library — Paw Cleaner adapts to that choice and only ever offers to sort what you've authorized. You can change this access at any time from iOS Settings.
No tracking, no advertising
Paw Cleaner does not integrate any usage analytics, advertising, or third-party tracking tool. No usage data is collected.
Questions
If anything here is unclear, contact us at support@pawcleaner.app.