Choose iCloud Drive, an external drive, or another Files location.
Preparing for the App Store
Choose where backups live.
Use iCloud Drive, an external drive, or another Files location.
Encrypted Library & BackupsNo account, advertising, analytics or behavioural tracking.
No vague promises
How Photress handles your files
Photress is a private, encrypted photo and video library designed to keep your files under your control. Your media stays on your iPhone and in backup locations you choose. No Photress account is required.
The screen below comes from the current Photress interface, not a marketing reconstruction.
You can see each step separately: whether the backup was written, uploaded to your chosen storage, passed an integrity check, and passed a restore test.
Open a portable backup with a Backup Passphrase you create or an independent 24-word Recovery Key.
What matters here
Details that should not stay hidden
Use iCloud Drive, an external drive, or another Files location.
Good privacy software should make the state understandable before asking you to trust it.
Encrypted Library & Backups
What Photress promises — and what it does not
Photress reports only the evidence it has. It does not turn a local write into a cloud-upload claim or a successful integrity check into a completed restore test.