# iPhone Storage Cleaner, Pay Once, No Subscription > Free up iPhone space without losing a photo you care about: similar photos and duplicates, shrink big videos, swipe through old months, review before anything goes. Free to start, then pay once, no subscription. Canonical: https://bytesweep.app/iphone.html Last updated: 2026-11-01 Bytesweep: Clean & Transfer for iPhone · version 1.4.0 ## Free up iPhone space without losing a photo you care about. Find similar shots and duplicates, shrink big videos, swipe through old months, and review everything before it goes. Every screen works the same way: select, review, delete. Nothing is deleted until you confirm, and all of it happens on the phone. [(Download on the) **App Store**](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/bytesweep-storage-cleaner/id6811826959) - iOS 17 or later **Free to start.** Every feature works within your first 1 GB and 30 items. After that, one one-time purchase removes the cap. No subscription, no renewal. ### New in 1.2.0: a fresh Bytesweep. A new design with four simple tabs, shrinking for videos and photos, and one way to clean on every screen. - Scan results - Select, review, delete - Similar photos - Shrink - Swipe Review - Ask Your Photos - Contacts Scan results ### Everything that can go, sized up One scan sorts your library into similar photos, large videos, what other apps saved, screenshots and duplicate contacts, each with its size. Videos worth shrinking and blurry or dark shots are listed apart, so you can look at them before deciding. - **Saved by other apps**: the copies messaging and social apps left in your camera roll. - **Burst photos, screen recordings**and**blurry photos**, found for you. - **Size and age filters** on every list, to find the big, old things first. Select, review, delete ### One last look, on one screen Tap what you want gone on any list. Review then shows all of it together with its size, and tells you if any of it has a face in it. Nothing is deleted until you confirm there. - **Copy somewhere first**, or**hide it in the vault** instead of deleting. - iOS asks you to confirm, then keeps everything in **Recently Deleted for 30 days**. - The space comes back when that album is emptied, and Review says so. Similar photos and duplicates ### Keep the best shot, let the rest go Near-identical shots are grouped by day and the best one is kept for you. Of equally sharp shots, the one with everyone's eyes open wins. - **Duplicates**: keep the highest quality, the newest or the oldest copy. - **How strict** the look-alike matching is: Strict, Normal or Loose. Shrink videos and photos ### Keep the moment, get the space back Bytesweep makes a smaller copy of a large video (HEVC, at the same resolution or down to 1080p) or a large photo (Smaller, Balanced or Sharper), checks it, and puts the original in Review for you to delete. Until you do, both stay. - Shrunk items say what they saved, for example 52 MB to 32 MB. - Shrink one, or the whole list. - Keep a **Live Photo as a still**, with its date and place. Swipe Review ### A year of camera roll, a month at a time Pick a month and go through it one photo or video at a time. Swipe left to let it go, right to keep it, and undo any decision. Favourites and protected albums are left out. Or ask Siri: “Start Swipe Review in Bytesweep”. Find and sort ### Find a photo by describing it Ask Your Photos reads your library on this iPhone, so you can type what you are looking for instead of scrolling for it. - **Photo Intelligence**: receipts, documents, food, pets and more, grouped. Turn document photos into one searchable PDF. - **Library**by album,**Places**on a map, and a**Selfies** grid. - **Privacy scan**: see which photos carry a location or device details, and share copies without them. Contacts, calendar and reminders ### Contacts saved twice, merged once Merge contacts saved twice, and clear entries with no name or no way to reach anyone. Old events, events saved twice and finished reminders go the same way. Nothing changes until you confirm. Calendars and reminders have no Recently Deleted, so removing there is permanent. Contacts are clutter, not storage: clearing them frees almost no space, and Bytesweep says so. ### Send to your devices, and clean from your computer The app works with ByteSweep on your Mac, Windows PC or Linux computer, straight over your Wi-Fi. - **Send to your devices.** Photos, videos, files, a note or a link, at full quality, to your computer or another phone. Pick one device or several. - **Clean it on the big screen.** On the computer, Clean your phone goes through the iPhone’s duplicates, similar shots, big videos and screenshots. The iPhone asks you first, and deletes only after its own confirmation. - **See every photo and video.** View your phone lists every photo and video on the iPhone and plays them on the computer. Nothing is copied or kept there. Device to device on the same Wi-Fi or a phone’s hotspot, encrypted, with no account and no server. The first time two devices meet, both show the same six-digit code. [How Send to your devices works](https://bytesweep.app/send-files-between-devices.html) ### Everything in Bytesweep: Clean & Transfer Scanning, browsing, selecting and swiping are always free, and every feature works free within your first 1 GB and 30 items, whichever comes first. Anything tagged purchase is capped at that allowance until Bytesweep Pro, one one-time in-app purchase you can restore on any iPhone signed in to the same Apple Account. #### Photos - **Similar photos**, grouped by day, the best one kept - **Duplicate photos**, keeping the highest quality, newest or oldest copy - **Burst photos**,**blurry photos**and**screenshots** - **Swipe Review**: a month at a time, one photo or video at a time - **Ask Your Photos**: find a photo by describing it - **Photo Intelligence**, and document photos turned into one searchable PDF - **Library**by album,**Places**on a map, a**Selfies** grid - **Delete** what you select, after Review purchase #### Videos - **Large videos**and**screen recordings**, biggest first - **Saved by other apps**: what messaging and social apps left in your camera roll - **Shrink videos** to HEVC, same resolution or 1080p purchase - **Shrink photos**: Smaller, Balanced or Sharper purchase - **Live Photo as a still**, with its date and place #### Contacts, calendar and reminders - **Merge duplicate contacts**, clear ones with no name or way to reach anyone purchase - **Old and duplicate events** purchase - **Finished reminders** purchase #### Privacy - **Private vault** for photos and videos, opened with Face ID, Touch ID or your passcode purchase - **Privacy scan**: photos that carry a location or device details, and copies to share without them - No account, no analytics, no server; the only network use is sending to your own devices on your Wi-Fi #### Storage at a glance - **Storage ring**on Home and a**growth chart** - **Reports**you can export, and a**cleanup history** #### Tools - **QR and barcode scanner** - **Document scanner** - **Text recognition** #### Siri, widgets and controls - **10 Siri and Shortcuts actions**, from “Start Swipe Review” on - **Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets** - A **Control Center** button - Works on **iPhone Duo** #### Your other devices - **Send to your devices**: photos, videos, files, notes and links to a Mac, PC, Linux computer or another phone - **From your computer**: View your phone and Clean your phone in ByteSweep on a Mac or PC ### What is Bytesweep: Clean & Transfer? **Bytesweep: Clean & Transfer is an iPhone app that finds similar and duplicate photos, large videos, screenshots and duplicate contacts, shrinks big videos and photos, and removes things only after you review them.** It tells you the truth about each delete: if a 12 MB photo is optimised for iCloud and only takes 200 KB on this iPhone, it shows you that before you delete. It is the iPhone companion to Bytesweep for Mac and Windows, built on the same rule: nothing is deleted until you have seen it, and nothing leaves the device unless you send it. **At a glance** | Version | 1.4.0 | | --- | --- | | Requires | iOS 17 or later | | Free | Scanning, browsing, selecting, swiping, and every feature within your first 1 GB and 30 items | | After that | One one-time purchase removes the cap, no subscription | | Account | None | | Network | Only Send to your devices, on your own Wi-Fi. No server, no analytics, no upload | | Undo | Deleted photos stay in Recently Deleted for 30 days | ### What no iPhone cleaner can do. #### Clear other apps' caches No app on iOS can clear other apps' caches, "System Data" or what Messages and Safari store. Any app claiming otherwise is counting something else. Bytesweep shows where that space is. #### Free space instantly Deleted photos go to Recently Deleted for 30 days. The space is not back until that album is emptied, and Bytesweep tells you so. #### Delete without asking Nothing is ever deleted automatically. Review shows everything first and tells you if there are faces in what you are about to remove. Favourites are left out of Swipe Review. ### Bytesweep: Clean & Transfer, answered. #### Is Bytesweep: Clean & Transfer free? Yes, to start. Scanning, browsing, selecting and swiping are always free, and every feature works free within your first 1 GB and 30 items, whichever comes first: deleting, shrinking, the vault, and cleaning contacts, calendars and reminders. After that, one purchase, Bytesweep Pro, removes the cap. You pay once: no subscription, no renewal. #### Does it upload my photos? No. There is no account, no analytics and no server. Nothing leaves the iPhone unless you send it to your own device on your Wi-Fi, or share or export it. #### Will shrinking a video lose it? No. Bytesweep makes a smaller copy, checks it, and adds it with the same date, place and favourite. The original goes to Review, and stays until you delete it there. #### Why does deleting a photo free less space than its size? With iCloud Photos set to optimise storage, a 12 MB photo may take only 200 KB on the iPhone. Deleting it frees 200 KB there and removes it from every device you own. Bytesweep shows you this before you delete. #### Can I undo a delete? Photos and videos, yes, for 30 days: iOS keeps them in Recently Deleted. Calendars and reminders have no Recently Deleted, so removing there is permanent. The vault stays on this iPhone and is not in backups, which the app says before anything goes in. #### I bought the old Phone Cleaner unlock. Do I pay again? No. Every purchase ever made in the app still unlocks it. Use Restore on any iPhone signed in to the same Apple Account. ### A cleaner iPhone, on your terms. [(Download on the) **App Store**](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/bytesweep-storage-cleaner/id6811826959) Download free, clean your first 1 GB free, and pay once only if you want more. On another device? [Bytesweep for Android](https://bytesweep.app/android.html) · [Bytesweep Pro for Mac](https://bytesweep.app/mac.html) · [Bytesweep for Windows](https://bytesweep.app/windows.html) Updated 18 October 2026