Privacy
Nothing is uploaded
PhotoBroom analyses your photos and videos on your device using Apple’s Vision framework. No media is uploaded to any server, there is no account, and there is no sign-up. This page explains what that means precisely — and, just as importantly, where the boundary is.
What stays on your device
Your photos and videos, always. Every part of the pipeline that touches media runs locally: reading the library, extracting Vision feature prints to find near-identical shots, scoring photo quality, grouping, and deleting. None of it involves a network request, and none of your media — not the files, not thumbnails, not derived image data — is sent anywhere.
The results of that analysis stay local too. Which photos were grouped together, which you kept, which scores they were given: all of it lives in a database on your device, and resetting it from Settings removes it.
Where the boundary is
PhotoBroom does make network requests, and it is worth being exact about which. It asks Apple whether you have bought Pro, and it uses third-party services for subscription management and anonymous product analytics. None of them receive your photos, your videos, your thumbnails, or anything derived from your media.
What PhotoBroom asks permission for
Photo library access, because finding duplicates means reading the library. PhotoBroom works with limited access if you would rather grant only a selection of photos, though it can then only work with what you have selected. It also asks for notification permission so it can remind you about pending cleanup — declining that changes nothing else.
What happens when you delete something
Deletion goes through the standard iOS photo confirmation sheet, which every app must use. Nothing is removed without your explicit approval. Deleted items go to Recently Deleted in the Photos app, where iOS keeps them for 30 days before removing them permanently — so a mistake is recoverable for a month. If your library uses iCloud Photos, the deletion applies to every device signed into that library straight away, and the item sits in Recently Deleted for 30 days on each of them before iOS removes it for good.
This website
photobroom.com sets no cookies, runs no analytics, and loads no third-party scripts. Fonts are served from this domain rather than from a font CDN. There is nothing here to opt out of, which is why you were not asked to.
The formal policy
This page is a plain-language explanation. The binding privacy policy for PhotoBroom is published by aisoftware athttps://aisoftwa.re/tracking-policy/, and the App Store listing carries Apple’s own privacy label for the app.