RydopIs the Cleanup app safe?
Cleanup: Phone Storage Cleaner is an ordinary App Store app. Like every iPhone app it runs in a sandbox, so it can only reach the photos, contacts and email you give it access to, and iOS asks you before it deletes photos. What’s worth weighing is the data and the price: its App Store privacy label says purchases, identifiers and usage data may be used to track you, the email cleaner gets access to your Gmail, and unlimited cleaning needs a Cleanup Pro subscription after a free trial. To merge duplicates, the Photos app is enough, and free.
Who makes it
The seller on the App Store is DEEP FLOW SOFTWARE SERVICES - FZCO, and the listing’s copyright line reads Codeway. The privacy policy names Codeway Dijital Hizmetler A.Ş. in Istanbul, Türkiye, as the company that handles your data. Cleanup has been on the App Store since December 2020 and has about 730,000 ratings in the US store, averaging 4.7 (October 2026).
What it can reach on your iPhone
- Photos and videos, once you allow it. You can give it only selected photos instead of your whole library. Its privacy policy says photos, videos and contacts are processed on your device or in your own cloud, not stored on its servers.
- Contacts, if you allow it, to merge duplicates and remove old entries.
- Your email, if you use the email cleaner: you sign in with Google, and the policy says it can then “read, compose, send and delete your emails”. It also says emails aren’t stored on its servers.
- Nothing else. iPhone apps are sandboxed and can’t read or change other apps’ files (Apple Platform Security). So no cleaner app can clear “junk files” or caches from other apps.
What the privacy label says
The App Store description promises “No tracking or data misuse”. The App Privacy section on the same page, filled in by the developer, lists Purchases, Identifiers and Usage Data under “Data Used to Track You”, and Contact Info, Identifiers and Usage Data under “Data Linked to You”. The privacy policy names Facebook SDK, Adjust and Firebase Analytics among the services that receive marketing data for advertising, including personalized advertising.
None of that means your photos are uploaded. It does mean data about how you use the app can be used for ads. If the app asks to track you, you can tap Ask App Not to Track.
What it costs
The download is free. Unlimited cleaning needs Cleanup Pro: the listing offers a weekly subscription and a lifetime purchase, and a 7-day free trial that renews automatically unless you cancel at least 24 hours before it ends. Prices vary by country; the In-App Purchases list on the listing shows yours.
How to cancel Cleanup Pro
- Open Settings and tap your name.
- Tap Subscriptions, then Cleanup.
- Tap Cancel Subscription. If there’s no Cancel button, it’s already cancelled.
Deleting the app doesn’t stop the subscription, so cancel it in Settings first. These steps are from Apple’s guide Cancel a subscription from Apple.
A cleaner without a subscription
If you only want duplicates gone, the Photos app merges them for free: see how to delete duplicate photos on iPhone. For similar shots, screenshots, large videos and blurry photos, there’s Rydop, the app behind this website. Rydop is free, with no ads and no subscription. It has no account, doesn’t ask for your email or contacts, checks your photos on the iPhone, and its App Store privacy label is “Data Not Collected”. Everything it deletes stays in Recently Deleted for 30 days.