An encrypted vault for your photos and videos

Locked keeps photos and videos in a vault on your iPhone or iPad, encrypted before they are saved: each one, and its thumbnail, with its own random 256-bit key. Import them from Photos, Files or the camera; Locked removes location data on the way in. Inside, sort them into albums, tag them and mark favourites. They open only in Locked, with your pattern or password.

Is a photo in Locked encrypted, or just hidden?

Encrypted. Hiding a photo moves it out of view; Locked turns it into data that means nothing without the key. Every photo, every video and every thumbnail gets a random 256-bit key of its own and is encrypted with AES-256-GCM before it touches storage. Files are stored under random names, padded so their sizes give little away, with no header that says what they are.

The key that unlocks those keys comes from your pattern or password, so a photo in Locked stays encrypted even while the phone itself is unlocked.

How do photos and videos get into Locked?

Three ways: pick them from your photo library, import them from the Files app, or take them with the camera from inside Locked.

Photos record where they were taken. Locked removes that location data when it imports them, so a photo you keep does not keep your address.

Can I organise them?

Yes. Sort photos and videos into albums, add tags, mark favourites, and filter the library by type. Album names and tags live in the vault’s encrypted index, never in plain text.

Search reads the text in your photos, such as receipts and scans, on the device. See private search.