CleanSweep: Reclaim Space

CleanSweep looks through your camera roll and groups the things that are almost certainly taking room for no reason: bursts of near identical shots, screenshots you never went back to, and large videos. You review each group and clear what you choose.

WHAT IT FINDS
- Bursts and duplicates: photos with the same pixel dimensions taken within a minute of each other, which is what a burst, a retake or a saved copy looks like. Within each group the first one is left alone and the rest are pre-selected.
- Screenshots: detected from the system photo type where the phone records it, and from the filename otherwise, in English and in French.
- Large videos: anything estimated at 50 MB or more, surfaced on its own so you can decide deliberately rather than scrolling past it.

HOW IT WORKS
CleanSweep reads the metadata your photo library already keeps, dimensions, creation time, filename and duration, rather than opening every file. It scans your most recent 2,000 photos and, separately, your most recent 2,000 videos.

A WORD ON THE SIZES
The megabytes shown are estimates, calculated from dimensions and duration rather than read from each file. The figure is there to rank what is worth deleting, not to balance a ledger, and the space you get back will not match it to the megabyte.

YOU DELETE, NOT THE APP
Nothing is removed without you. In duplicate groups the extras are pre-selected as a suggestion, while screenshots and large videos start unselected until you pick them. You look at the pictures, and the deletion goes through the system photo library, which means anything you clear lands in Recently Deleted and can be brought back for 30 days.

WHO IT IS FOR
Anyone whose phone will not update, whose iCloud is full, or who has 400 near identical shots of the same thing and knows it.

PRIVACY
No accounts, no analytics and no network requests. Your photos are never uploaded and never leave the device. CleanSweep reads your library on the phone and that is where all of it stays.