Swipe Clean Photos guides

iPhone storage full and you have five minutes? The order that gets the most space back first: screenshots and duplicates, then big videos, then emptying Recently Deleted.

How the Swipe Clean deck works: sort order, the Keeping thumbnail, undo, the commit bar, how kept photos are remembered, and when to switch to the grid.

Find exact duplicate photos on your iPhone by file content, not filename, and keep the best copy. How the scan works, what counts as a duplicate and what does not.

Clear burst shots, retakes and old screenshots on iPhone. How Swipe Clean groups similar photos, why screenshots start unselected and what the limits are.

Shrink big iPhone videos on-device with Light, Standard or Strong compression, preview the estimated saving, and delete the original to actually free space (Premium).

Deleted photos on iPhone stay in Recently Deleted for 30 days and still use storage. Why your storage did not drop, and how to empty it safely.

Find and merge duplicate iPhone contacts that share a phone, email or name, and clean up empty or incomplete entries. How the matching works and what to check first.

Move private photos and videos into an encrypted, PIN and Face ID protected vault (Premium), delete the originals, and understand what happens on a new phone.

What Swipe Clean Photos does for free (scan, review, one 50 MB cleanup a day, contacts) and what Premium unlocks: unlimited deleting, video compression, the vault.

Your photos, videos and contacts never leave the phone: how the scan, compression and contact matching run locally, what the app does store, and how to check.

Keep an eye on free space with a Storage, Ready to Clean or System Monitor widget on your Home Screen or Lock Screen, and tap through to cleanup.

See live CPU and per-core load, memory use, battery and thermal state in Swipe Clean's System Info, and understand why apps cannot show what other apps are doing.

Pick a charging character, watch charging progress in the Dynamic Island and on the Lock Screen, and level up your companion by cleaning. Some characters are free.

How the companion's XP, the daily goal of 20 items, your streak and the once-a-week reminder work, and how to turn the reminder off.

Same picture, different file? Swipe Clean groups exact duplicates by content and similar photos by closeness in time. Why re-saved, edited or older copies can be missed.