In short
Your photos stay in the app, not in your library, and never on a server. One Photo Later has no accounts, no tracking, no analytics, no advertising and no developer-side storage. The developer receives nothing you create.
Introduction
One Photo Later lets you photograph things you want to come back to — something to buy, return, pay, follow up on, read, watch, try, visit or do — and reminds you about them later with the photo. Everything you create stays on your iPhone.
Information We Do Not Collect
The developer does not collect any information from you. Specifically, the developer does not receive:
- Your photos, notes, titles, reminders, lists or any other content you create
- Name, email address, phone number or physical address
- Contacts, location, health or financial data
- Advertising identifiers or any device identifier used for tracking
- Analytics, crash analytics or usage data
The app makes no network requests of its own. The only connection it uses is Apple's App Store (StoreKit) when you view, buy or restore the optional purchase.
Information Stored on Your Device
The app stores the following only on your iPhone, inside the app's private storage:
- The photos you save, re-encoded at up to 2560 pixels
- Titles, notes, what each photo is for, reminder times, repeat settings, lists, and whether an item is finished
- Text recognised in your photos (see below), so you can search it
- App settings, such as your reminder times and the reminder time last chosen in the camera
Photos are stored with iOS Data Protection and are excluded from iCloud and computer backups. They are therefore not synced between devices, and the developer cannot recover them if you delete the app. Titles, notes and settings may be included in your own encrypted iCloud or computer backup of your iPhone, like any app's data; the developer has no access to those backups.
To show your photos in widgets, to let a widget's Done button work, and to receive images from the Share button or the Shortcuts app, the app keeps small thumbnails, a short summary of upcoming items, a list of items marked done from a widget, and images waiting to be imported in an App Group container on your iPhone that only One Photo Later and its own extensions can read. This data never leaves the device.
Text Recognition
The app uses Apple's on-device Vision framework to read text in your photos — for example a book title, a price, a link or a date — so it can suggest a title, make the photo searchable and offer one-tap actions. This happens entirely on your iPhone. No image or recognised text is sent to the developer or to any other service.
App Permissions
- Camera — requested the first time you tap Snap, to take the photo you want to save. Photos you take in the app are saved only inside the app and are never added to your photo library.
- Photos — the app uses the system photo picker, which shows your library in a separate, private process and gives the app only the photos you pick. The app never asks for access to your whole library.
- Notifications — requested only the first time you save something with a reminder time. Reminders are scheduled locally on your iPhone and include a small copy of the photo so you can recognise it. No push notification service is used.
The app does not use your location, contacts, microphone or calendar. You can change any permission at any time in the iOS Settings app; the app keeps working without them.
Siri, Shortcuts, Widgets and Controls
You can use the app with Siri, the Shortcuts app, the Action Button, Control Center, the Lock Screen and Home Screen widgets. These run on your iPhone and use only the on-device data described above. When you ask Siri something, Apple processes your request under Apple's Privacy Policy; the app only hands Siri the answer (for example, what is due today) and the developer receives nothing.
When you send an image with the Share button or a shortcut, a copy is saved into the app's private App Group storage on your iPhone and imported into the app. Nothing is uploaded.
Ratings
After you have finished a few things, the app may ask iOS to show Apple's standard rating prompt. Apple decides whether it appears and handles any rating you give; the app does not see or store it.
Payments and Purchases
The optional one-time Premium purchase is processed by Apple through the App Store. The developer does not receive or store your payment information. The app checks your purchase using Apple's StoreKit on your device. There is no subscription.
Third-Party Services
The app contains no third-party code: no analytics, advertising, crash-reporting or tracking SDKs. It uses only Apple system frameworks.
Data Sharing
The developer does not sell, trade, rent or share any data, because the developer does not have any. You can choose to share an individual photo yourself using the Share button inside the app.
Data Deletion
Delete a single photo from its detail screen, clear finished items from the Archive, or remove everything with Settings › Delete All Data inside the app. Deleting the app from your iPhone removes all of its data.
Children's Privacy
The app does not collect personal information from anyone, including children.
Changes to This Privacy Policy
If a future version changes how information is handled, this page will be updated with a new date before that version is released.
Contact
Questions about privacy: murathanoran1@gmail.com. Help with the app: Support.