Clarity scans your photo library on-device, no upload, no account, and shows exactly how much space you can reclaim from duplicates, blurry shots, screenshots, and large videos. You approve every deletion yourself. It never deletes anything on its own.
Clarity does two things well: it finds the clutter that's eating your storage across five real categories, and it makes deletion safe, manual-approval only, with your favorites protected and a 30-day undo on everything.
One scan groups your library into exact and near-duplicate photos, similar burst shots, blurry or badly-exposed shots, screenshot clutter, and large videos. For every duplicate cluster, Clarity makes a keep-best recommendation with a plain-English reason like “sharper” or “higher resolution”, and you can always override it.
Every deletion is confirmed by you and routed through a single safety-guarded path, so manual approval is structural, not a setting. Favorites and hidden photos are protected, low-confidence clusters are never pre-ticked, and screenshots from the last 7 days are left alone. Anything you remove sits in iOS Recently Deleted for 30 days, fully recoverable.
Clarity reclaims space from photos and videos, and nothing else. No “System Data” magic, no virus scans, no battery or speed claims. If your storage is mostly photos and videos, that's exactly the part it's built to fix.
No photos, videos, thumbnails, file names, or metadata are uploaded or persisted off-device. There's no account and no cloud upload, the App Store privacy label is Data Not Collected, with no analytics or ad SDK shipping by default.
Clarity does not touch system files, app caches, “Other” storage, or anything outside your authorized Photos library. No encrypted vault, contacts, or calendar cleanup in this version, that honesty is the point.
iCloud-only assets are analyzed from metadata and low-res thumbnails; full verification needs a download you start yourself, and Clarity never auto-downloads over cellular. Results are local, there's no cross-device sync.
Clarity never deletes anything automatically. You confirm every deletion, and anything removed is recoverable for 30 days.
Every scan runs locally on Apple's own frameworks. The point is a duplicate finder you can trust because the matching is explainable and the deletion is yours to approve.
With your permission, Clarity reads your Photos library through Apple PhotoKit. Nothing is copied off the device, no photos, thumbnails, file names, or metadata leave your iPhone, and there is no account or server in the loop.
For similarity, Clarity uses Apple's Vision feature print, a compact numeric fingerprint of each image computed on the Neural Engine. Comparing fingerprints by distance is what separates exact and near-duplicate photos and similar burst shots from genuinely different ones, so a re-saved or lightly-edited copy is caught even when file size and date differ.
For each duplicate cluster Clarity recommends one photo to keep and says why in plain English, “sharper” or “higher resolution”, rather than an opaque AI pick. Sharpness, resolution and exposure feed the call, and you can override any recommendation before approving.
The biggest single wins are usually 4K clips. Clarity can re-encode large videos with AVFoundation using HEVC (H.265), a codec designed to store video at similar quality in roughly half the space of older H.264, so you keep the memory and reclaim the gigabytes.
Removal goes through one safety-guarded path. Favorites and hidden photos are protected, low-confidence clusters and screenshots from the last 7 days are never pre-selected, and nothing leaves until you confirm. Approved items land in iOS Recently Deleted, where Apple keeps them recoverable for 30 days.
Clarity reclaims space from your Photos library, it is not a whole-device cleaner and makes no virus, battery, or speed claims. Sources: Apple PhotoKit, Apple Vision (feature prints), Apple AVFoundation (HEVC), and Apple Support: Recently Deleted.
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Read more →No. Clarity never deletes anything on its own. Every deletion is confirmed by you and routed through one safety-guarded path, so manual approval is structural, not a setting you might leave off. You review each cluster and approve before anything is removed.
Yes. Anything you remove with Clarity moves to iOS Recently Deleted, where Apple keeps it for 30 days before permanent removal. So an accidental deletion is always recoverable within that window.
No. Everything runs on your device. No photos, videos, thumbnails, file names, or metadata leave your phone. There is no account and no cloud upload, and the App Store privacy label is Data Not Collected, with no analytics or ad SDK shipping by default.
For each duplicate cluster, Clarity compares the photos using Apple's on-device Vision feature prints and recommends a keep-best with a one-sentence reason in plain English, such as “sharper” or “higher resolution.” The recommendation is a suggestion you can always override.
Yes, with one caveat. For iCloud-only assets, Clarity analyzes from metadata and low-resolution thumbnails; full-resolution verification needs a download you start yourself, and Clarity never auto-downloads over cellular. Results are local, there is no cross-device sync.
No. Clarity reclaims space from your authorized Photos library only. It does not clean system files, app caches, “Other” storage, contacts, or calendar, and it makes no virus, battery, or speed claims. If your storage is mostly photos and videos, that is exactly the part it fixes.
A calm, fully on-device way to reclaim space from your photo library, with manual-approval deletion, protected favorites, and a 30-day undo on everything.