Choose iCloud Drive, an external drive, or another Files location.
Preparing for the App Store
How to verify a photo backup before you need it
Integrity checks and a trial restore turn confidence into evidence. Do them while the original library is still available.
Encrypted Library & BackupsNo account, advertising, analytics or behavioural tracking.
No vague promises
A clearer way to decide
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.
Use these steps as a decision framework rather than a promise that one storage choice removes every risk.
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.
View and export everything you have added, even without an active subscription.
Restore, create an emergency backup, resolve backup conflicts, and delete your existing data without renewing Pro.
What matters here
Details that should not stay hidden
Integrity checks and a trial restore turn confidence into evidence. Do them while the original library is still available.
Good privacy software should make the state understandable before asking you to trust it.
No ads, no behavioural tracking, and no developer media server. Photress cannot remotely access your library.
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.
Before you continue
Keep at least one portable backup credential outside the iPhone, retain access to the chosen destination and verify important copies periodically.