In short: Hey Roomy analyzes your photo library entirely on your device. The app has no server, never sends photos or their metadata over the network, and collects no data about you.
What data the app uses
Hey Roomy asks for access to your photo library (through Apple’s PhotoKit framework) to find duplicates, similar photos, screenshots and large videos, and to show them to you for review and deletion. This is the only data the app accesses.
What happens to this data
All analysis — comparing photos, detecting similar shots, sorting — runs locally on your device using Apple technologies (Vision, PhotoKit). Neither original photos, nor thumbnails, nor any features computed from them are ever sent to a server — Hey Roomy simply has no server to send them to.
To speed up repeat scans, the app keeps a small technical cache (photo hashes and features) in its own sandboxed storage on the device. This cache never leaves the device and is deleted together with the app.
What Hey Roomy doesn’t do
- Doesn’t collect analytics or track what you do in the app
- Doesn’t show ads or share data with ad networks
- Doesn’t require registration or an account
- Doesn’t make any network requests at all
Deleting photos
When you delete photos or videos in Hey Roomy, they move to the Recently Deleted album and are permanently removed after 30 days — this is the standard behavior of the system Photos library (PHAssetChangeRequest), not separate Hey Roomy logic.
Children
Hey Roomy is not directed at children and doesn’t collect data from any user, regardless of age — because it doesn’t collect data at all.
Changes to this policy
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