Photo backup apps: Privacy Labels Compared
Photo backup apps upload your library by design, including location metadata embedded in each picture. Checked November 2026.
- Declare tracking
- 23%
- Linked, no tracking
- 15%
- Collect nothing
- 46%
- No label details
- 1
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| Developer | Tracking | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FanX Cloud | ShenZhen LingDeChuang Technology Co., Ltd. | Linked | None | 4 |
| G Cloud Backup | Genie9 LTD | Linked | None | 3 |
| IBackup | IDrive Incorporated | Collects nothing | None | 0 |
| IDrive Photo Backup | IDrive Incorporated | Not linked | None | 3 |
| Photo Backup to USB | ByteGlo OU | Collects nothing | None | 0 |
| Photo Recovery - Secure Backup | Piyushkumar Bhut | Tracks you | Usage Data | 2 |
| Photo Recovery: Restore Files | Jerusalem Global Ltd. | Collects nothing | None | 0 |
| Photo Transfer WiFi | KeepSolid Inc. | Not linked | None | 1 |
| PhotoSync-Backup your photos | Beijing Ruifeng Information Technology Co., Ltd. | Collects nothing | None | 0 |
| RcloneView | Bdrive Inc. | Collects nothing | None | 0 |
| Recover Photo | Hiren Merja | Tracks you | Usage Data | 2 |
| Send Anywhere | Rakuten Symphony Korea, Inc. | Tracks you | Purchases, Location, Identifiers, Usage Data, Diagnostics | 10 |
| USB Photo Transfer | Kenny Timmer | Collects nothing | None | 0 |
| Whoopee | LHSG | Not disclosed | — | — |
Most common data types
How to read this list
Productivity apps tend to collect the work you do in them — documents, notes and files — so User Content is common. The question is whether it syncs to the developer's servers and how it is protected there.
Check whether backups keep original location data and whether shared albums are public links.
Exposure follows the label's own structure: an app that declares any tracking is shown as “Tracks you”, even if it collects little else. Open any app for every data type explained and the iPhone settings that limit it.