01 — Account
No account
No email, phone number or password. Each device makes its own keys, and they never leave it. There is no profile of you anywhere for us to lose.
Privacy principles
Your photos
are yours.
sync.photos was built so we never need to see your library. Here is how, and what we honestly can’t do.
Photos, videos, dates, places and album names, readable only on your paired devices.
No photos · No file namesNo dates, places or album names
- Session ID
- Temporary
- IP address
- Briefly
01–04 — Principles
Built so we never need to look.
02 — Storage
Nothing on our servers
Photos and videos go from one of your devices to another. We never store them. On the same Wi-Fi, sync needs no internet and no server at all. Only internet sync uses a small connection service to help devices find each other, and it sees no photos or album names.
03 — Encryption
End-to-end encrypted
Everything sent between your devices is encrypted so only your paired devices can read it: photos, dates, places and album names. If traffic ever passes through a relay, it stays encrypted and is not stored.
04 — Exclusions
Exclusions come first
Photos you keep off a device are filtered out before anything is sent. That device never learns they exist, not even their names or dates.
05 — Honest limits
What we can’t do.
Being honest about limits is part of privacy too.
No remote erase
Removing a device stops future syncs with it as soon as each of your other devices hears about the removal, but photos already on it stay there. If it’s lost or stolen, erase it with Find My or Google’s Find Hub.
Your other backups are separate
If iCloud Photos or Google Photos backup is turned on, those services upload what arrives on that device. That’s your account, outside sync.photos.
We can’t recover your library
We hold no copy, so we can’t restore photos for you. Keep a backup of your own.
06 — The full details
Read it in full.
Exactly what the connection service handles, how long anything is kept and how to reach us.