When someone else knows your iPhone passcode

What to do

Underlock is coming soon to the App Store. Here’s how it will work.

1. Import

   Underlock copies the photos you choose into your vault.

2. Move the originals

   When the import finishes, Underlock offers to move the originals to Recently Deleted.

3. Delete for good

   In the Photos app, delete the originals from Recently Deleted.

Put private photos in your vault

Importing puts a copy of each photo in your vault. The originals stay in the Photos app until you remove them.

1. 1. In Underlock, tap the Add button (a plus sign), then Import from Photos.
2. 2. Choose the photos you want in your vault.
3. 3. Keep Underlock open until the import finishes.
4. 4. When the import finishes, Underlock asks whether to remove the originals from the Photos app. Tap Remove.
5. 5. When iOS asks to delete the originals, confirm. The originals move to Recently Deleted in the Photos app.
6. 6. While the originals are in Recently Deleted, check that the photos are in your vault.
7. 7. To remove the originals for good, delete the originals from Recently Deleted. Until then, Recently Deleted keeps the originals for 30 days, and your passcode opens Recently Deleted. After 30 days, the originals are gone for good.

For new photos

1. 1. In Underlock, tap Add, then Take photo or video. Nothing goes to the Photos app.

What Underlock does

• A separate lock. Your vault opens with your own pattern, not your iPhone passcode or Face ID.
• Locks as you leave. By default, your vault locks the moment you leave Underlock.
• Nothing to see without your pattern. Anyone who opens Underlock finds only the pattern screen: no photos, no vault names and no way to delete anything.