SnapTidy guides
Each guide answers one question: concrete steps, when it applies, its limits, and the step where SnapTidy can help.
- How to avoid deleting the wrong photos on your iPhoneThe safety net first: photos you delete on an iPhone stay in Recently Deleted for 30 days. When you clean up, make choosing and deleting two separate steps with one review in between, and most mistakes never happen.
- Too many photos on your iPhone? Here’s where to startDon’t start scrolling from the first photo. Clear the easiest decisions first (screenshots, duplicates, videos), then go to the days with the most photos, and handle the rest in small daily batches.
- How to delete lots of screenshots on iPhoneThe Photos app already keeps every screenshot in one place. Open it, slide your finger to select a whole run, and delete. The real work is deciding which few to keep, and remembering that deleted screenshots wait in Recently Deleted for 30 days.
- Similar photos on iPhone: how to pick the keeperThe Photos app can merge exact duplicates for you, but a run of near-identical shots, such as a Burst or ten tries at the same group photo, is your call. Here’s how to tell the two apart, and how to pick the one to keep without agonising over every frame.
- Does deleting photos free up iPhone storage?Yes, deleting is one of the ways Apple suggests to make room, but the change isn’t always immediate or as big as you expect. Deleted photos wait in Recently Deleted for 30 days, iCloud and iPhone storage are counted separately, and with iCloud Photos your iPhone may only hold smaller copies.
- Delete iPhone photos but keep them in iCloud?Not while iCloud Photos is on: Apple says photos you delete on one device are deleted everywhere you use iCloud Photos, iCloud included. For iPhone space, use Optimize iPhone Storage instead; to delete but keep something, export a copy first.
- iCloud full vs iPhone full: clean or buy more?First check which one is full: iCloud storage and iPhone storage are separate, so buying iCloud+ adds space in the cloud, not on your iPhone. A full iCloud is fixed by deleting or upgrading; a full iPhone is fixed on the iPhone, where iCloud helps only through Optimize iPhone Storage.
- Cancel a photo cleaner subscription on iPhoneOpen Settings, tap your name, tap Subscriptions, choose the app and tap Cancel Subscription; for a trial, Apple says to do it at least 24 hours before the trial ends. Already charged? Request a refund at reportaproblem.apple.com, though Apple reviews each request and approval isn't guaranteed.
- Deleted photos still in your camera roll?Usually they were never deleted from your photo library: the app only listed them, or the deletion wasn't confirmed. If they were deleted, they're in Recently Deleted, still syncing to other devices, or somewhere a normal delete doesn't reach, like a shared album or photos synced from a computer.