Choose iCloud Drive, an external drive, or another Files location.

Choose how to restore your library.
Use a Backup Passphrase you create or an independent 24-word Recovery Key.

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.
Details that should not stay hidden
Use a Backup Passphrase you create or an independent 24-word Recovery Key.
Good privacy software should make the state understandable before asking you to trust it.

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.