Frees space without deleting
Live Photos
Drop the motion, keep the frame
A Live Photo keeps about three seconds of video next to the still. DustFox saves the still as a regular photo and drops the motion. The original goes to Recently Deleted.
Ten ways to free photo storage on iPhone and iPad
DustFox has ten methods. Three of them free space without deleting anything; the other seven find what is safe to delete. Every one runs on the device.
Methods that free space without deleting
The photo or video stays in your library. The file gets smaller.
Frees space without deleting
Shrink Videos
Free space, keep the quality
Your iPhone encodes in real time while recording, so it deliberately uses a high bitrate. DustFox re-encodes the same frames with HEVC, unhurried: same resolution, same smoothness, often about half the space. Videos that are already efficient are skipped.
Frees space without deleting
Compressible Photos
Same shot, less space
JPEG stores the same shot in roughly twice the space HEIC needs. DustFox converts it to HEIC; the difference is very hard to see. The card shows an estimate, and the real gain is measured after the conversion.
Methods that find what to delete
Everything deleted waits 30 days in Recently Deleted, so a wrong swipe is never final.
Finds what to delete
Duplicate Photos
Copies and near-identical shots
Groups identical and similar frames with DCT fingerprints. A jury of measures (sharpness, exposure, resolution, file size) picks the keeper, and you can see how the vote went. Favorites and shots iOS won't let you delete are never suggested.
Finds what to delete
Swipe to Clean
Swipe, decide, move on
One shot at a time: swipe left to delete, right to keep. A shot you keep is never shown again, so every session starts where the last one stopped.
Finds what to delete
Sent to You
WhatsApp and downloads
Images and videos that arrived from WhatsApp, Telegram and downloads, kept apart from your own photos. When the same image came in more than once, one tap selects the extras. Filter by source and by month.
Unlimited for free
Screenshots
The screen captures that piled up
Boarding passes from last year, a map you needed once, a meme you already sent. Screenshots are always unlimited in the free version.
Finds what to delete
Large Videos
The biggest space eaters
Every video sorted by size, largest first, so the first few decisions free the most space.
Finds what to delete
Blurry Shots
Photos that aren't sharp
Out of focus or shaken. DustFox measures sharpness on the device and lists the frames that fall short, so you can decide in one pass.
Finds what to delete
Large Photos
Heavy image files
RAW files, panoramas and other heavy images, largest first. They are rarely many, but they are rarely small.
Goal plan
Pick a goal, such as 5 GB or “Everything”, and DustFox builds the plan with the least regret. The order is fixed on purpose: byte-identical copies and burst extras first, then old screenshots, then lossless conversions. Every step is listed with its size and can be switched off. Conversions run first; then iOS asks once to confirm every deletion.
Gallery Report Card
Your first scan earns your gallery one of seven titles and a card to share. The card holds only numbers: counts, sizes and the space that can be freed. Sent to You adds a Group Bill, a receipt for everything your chats sent you. New card themes unlock as you free space.
All titles and themes
Widget and weekly digest
The Home Screen and Lock Screen widget shows free space and what DustFox can free; a tap opens the goal plan. If you turn it on, a weekly notification tells you in one sentence how many screenshots and received images piled up, and only when something did. It is scheduled on the device: no push server.
Deleting is never a surprise
Deleted items move to Recently Deleted in Apple Photos and stay there for 30 days. DustFox cannot empty that album, and says so: its Empty buttons show a short guide and open Photos. When the space is back, DustFox confirms it.
