Move your vault to a new iPhone
Underlock is a private vault for photos, videos, files and notes. Underlock can back up your vault to your own iCloud. A new iPhone then restores your vault from that backup.
Coming soon to the App Store- Free for one vault
- No account
- Encrypted on your phone
From your old iPhone to your new iPhone
Keep your old iPhone until your vault opens on your new iPhone.
On your old iPhone, open Underlock. Draw your pattern to open your vault. Look at the backup status under your vault’s name. Backed up means every file in your vault is in Underlock’s backup. If the status doesn’t say Backed up, see the first question below.
Find the paper with your 12 words, your recovery phrase. You’ll need the 12 words if your pattern doesn’t open your backup.
Set up your new iPhone. During setup, sign in with the same Apple Account as your old iPhone. If Underlock isn’t on your new iPhone, get Underlock from the App Store. Open Underlock. Tap Restore a backup.
Draw your vault’s pattern, the same pattern as on your old iPhone. If your pattern doesn’t open the backup, tap Use recovery phrase, and type your 12 words. Keep Underlock open until the restore finishes. The vault comes back whole: photos, videos, files and notes.
Questions
If the status says Backing up, wait until it says Backed up. If the status says iCloud backup is off, Underlock isn’t backing up this vault. You can still move your vault: it comes over with Quick Start, and on your new iPhone you open it with your 12 words and choose a new pattern. Would you rather keep your pattern? On your old iPhone, tap the status under your vault’s name. Turn on Back up to iCloud. Wait until the status says Backed up. Then follow the steps above.
Not while Underlock’s backup is on. Quick Start is Apple’s way to set up a new iPhone from your old iPhone. With Underlock’s backup on, Quick Start brings only the Underlock app, and your vault comes from Underlock’s backup: tap Restore a backup, as in the steps above. With Underlock’s backup off, Quick Start brings your vault too. Then you open your vault with your 12 words and choose a new pattern. Quick Start, step by step
When you set up Underlock’s backup, Underlock asked how a new iPhone should open the backup. If you chose Recovery phrase only, your pattern can’t open the backup, and only your 12 words can. If Underlock says Your pattern can’t open this backup at the moment, iCloud may still be setting up on your new iPhone. Try again later, or use your 12 words. Your 12 words open your backup on any iPhone.
With Underlock’s backup on, your vault comes back on your new iPhone. In Underlock, tap Restore a backup. Then draw your pattern, or type your 12 words. Without Underlock’s backup, your vault can come back only if you restore your whole iPhone from Apple’s own backup of it. During setup, on the Transfer Your Apps & Data screen, tap From iCloud Backup. Then open Underlock. Open your vault with your 12 words, and choose a new pattern.
On your old iPhone, open your vault. Tap Settings, then Recovery phrase, then Show recovery phrase. Draw your pattern, and your 12 words appear. Write the 12 words on paper. Lost your old iPhone too? Your pattern still opens Underlock’s backup, unless you chose Recovery phrase only. With that choice, or with Underlock’s backup off, nobody can open your vault without the 12 words, not even us.
Yes, one at a time. Each backed-up vault comes back on its own, with its own 12 words. Restore a backup brings back the vault whose pattern you draw. To bring back another vault, open the vault you restored, then tap Lock at the top. On the screen that asks for your pattern, tap Use recovery phrase. Type the other vault’s 12 words. Underlock then asks you to choose a new pattern for that vault.
New iPhone? Restore your vault from iCloud.
Encrypted on your iPhone, kept in your own iCloud. No Underlock account needed.
For iPhone with iOS 17 or later.