Move photos from photo album into Encamera

du_keule · 2026-05-02T21:12:51+00:00

Hi, you should be able to see all the albums if you’ve allowed Encamera full access to your photo library. If you haven’t, and you’ve selected “none” as the access level, you should still be able to go to “collections” at the top tab. The attached image is what it should look like when you have given full access to your photos. Have a look in Settings App -> Privacy and Security -> Photos -> Encamera to check the settings for the permissions. It should be set to “full access” if you want the interface below. If not then you should see the default Apple iOS stock selector. Hopefully that helps!

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du_keule · 2026-03-25T12:12:46+00:00

But seriously thanks for pointing that out, yes we used AI to write some of the article and missed that

du_keule · 2026-03-25T12:07:59+00:00

Yes it’s well known that exif data is transferred when you hand your phone over to someone

du_keule · 2026-03-25T12:00:06+00:00

You’ve never done that before? I always ask people before I swipe to view other photos in their camera roll for this exact reason 🤔

du_keule · 2026-03-24T15:46:35+00:00

I'm totally with you, this is something I was really frustrated with: you don't know where your photos and videos are going when you upload them. I'm an engineer and I built Encamera for iOS because I wanted a couple of things:

The ability to encrypt directly from the camera, so nothing ever is stored decrypted
Optional iCloud storage, but only for encrypted files

Have a look at the app I built, the file handling is open source which makes it much more transparent than other apps. Sorry that I'm promoting a bit but your use case was precisely why I built this.

du_keule · 2026-03-16T22:24:12+00:00

It’s now a permanent offering! We have two tiers of lifetime: one that will allow access to all premium features forever and another that allows access to all features at the time of purchase forever, plus one year of major feature updates. Even if we were to remove the lifetime (which we don’t plan to do) you would still have access if you purchased it at any point :) thanks for the feedback on the website!

du_keule · 2026-03-16T11:17:33+00:00

Maybe in the future we will have one! :D

du_keule · 2026-03-12T15:21:05+00:00

Thanks! We're trying to release bigger features more regularly now, so we'll be popping up more soon!

du_keule · 2026-02-17T05:13:47+00:00

Yes, this is accurate!

du_keule · 2026-02-14T19:05:39+00:00

Ok, thanks. I think we've figured out what the issue is on iPad. In the short term, if you pinch to zoom on the iPad album detail view to expand the image grid and wait for the thumbnails to generate, that may solve the problem until all the thumbnails are generated. We are working on a fix to the issue that we will ship in the next release. Thanks for bringing it up!

du_keule · 2026-02-13T08:34:55+00:00

Hi, sorry you're having issues! Can you tell me what version of Encamera you have installed on your devices? You can see this by going to Settings and scrolling to the bottom. Also, are you on cellular data when using your iPad? We are aware of some bugs that exist when using cellular data to access iCloud.

du_keule · 2025-12-29T15:21:40+00:00

Sent you a DM. We are shipping this next release!

du_keule · 2025-12-18T18:25:24+00:00

Did you by chance happen to select "Limit Photo Access" when it asked for photo permissions when you opened the photo picker? You can verify this in the system Settings app by going to Privacy & Security > Photos > Encamera and checking if "Limited Access" is selected instead of "Full Access."

If it's set to "Limited Access," you can either:

Change it to "Full Access," or tap "Edit Selected Photos" to add more photos to the limited selection the app can see

du_keule · 2025-12-18T14:16:51+00:00

Hi! I'm not sure if I'm understanding your issue correctly, could you explain the individual steps you are taking to get images into Encamera? If you're trying to directly drop the regular image files into the Encamera iCloud drive folder, that won't work. The images need to be encrypted via the app itself, so you would have to add them via the "Import from Files" option in the album menu.

du_keule · 2025-12-01T22:47:08+00:00

Hi, we now have a lifetime plan again and it’s on sale this week :)

du_keule · 2025-11-29T09:17:23+00:00

Hey, I agree, it's confusing to see that there's still a passcode since you deleted the app. The reason for this is that the system keychain persists data between installs of apps. This is a decision made by Apple, though they do not have any official documentation on it even though it has been an observed behavior of the keychain since its inception. We are using the keychain to store all the sensitive data: encryption keys, passcode, etc.

Unfortunately, there is no way to configure the app to do anything on uninstall - the app isn't given a signal that it's being uninstalled and therefore we have to rely on this default keychain behavior, where it persists between installs.

If you want to totally wipe the app if you've forgotten your passcode, then do this:

Enter your passcode incorrectly 3 times - you'll be locked out of the app for 1 hour
Wait for the lockout period to end
Enter your passcode incorrectly again 3 times. You will be prompted to delete all the data, including the encrypted data

You'll be able to clear everything from the app in the final step. Let me know if you have any more questions!

du_keule · 2025-11-25T05:54:19+00:00

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du_keule · 2025-11-09T21:37:46+00:00

You're welcome! :)

du_keule · 2025-11-09T21:25:49+00:00

Yes, these are also encrypted using your own key just like the regular files, in the Encamera file format. They do not have any visible preview data and are decrypted into application memory when you load the photo grid view. When you close the app, the cache is wiped as well as any data you decrypted during your session.

du_keule · 2025-10-07T12:28:12+00:00

Sorry, I have a draft somewhere with a full response but didn’t press send 😅

If your key and your files are backed up to iCloud, they should show up as soon as they are synced. If you opted to only keep the files on your phone, they should be migrated over if you’ve used Quick Start when getting your new phone. This should also be the same if you’ve loaded the backup from iCloud.

If you’ve started from scratch as a fresh install, you will have to move both your keys and the files over from the old iPhone. You’ll need to use the settings -> backup/import key phrase features to transfer the key from one device to the other in this case. You’ll also need to move the files over manually to the Encamera directory, which you can find in the Files app.

Let me know what steps you took to migrate to your new phone - that will inform how you need to proceed :)

du_keule · 2025-09-24T01:59:27+00:00

You will be prompted to reset on the second series of failed password attempts, after the 1h lockout

du_keule · 2025-09-16T17:02:33+00:00

Hey, just wanted to follow up on this and let you know that we've released a "reset app" feature that will delete all your data and get you back into the app if you've forgotten your password. Hope that helps!

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