What’s new in Sealed

Find what belongs in the vault

• Find Private Photos checks your camera roll for passports and IDs, cards, codes, recovery phrases and password screenshots, and offers to seal them.
• Find Private Photos runs on your iPhone: nothing is sent anywhere, and the text it reads isn’t kept.

Seal without unlocking

• On iOS 18, the Lock Screen camera seals photos into your vault without unlocking, and it is part of Sealed Pro.
• The Sealed Camera control takes photos straight into your vault, from Control Center or the Lock Screen.
• The Shortcuts actions Seal Last Screenshot and Seal Last Photo seal your newest screenshot or photo without opening the vault, and you can run them with Back Tap.

More ways back to your key

• Key guardians split your recovery key into 3 parts where any 2 bring it back, or into 5 parts where any 3 do, one part for each person you trust.
• The open copy keeps a copy of your vault in your iCloud Drive, in a folder named Sealed, that opens without the app on any computer, with your recovery key and the Sealed reader.
• The open copy is off until you turn it on, and the automatic copy starts only once your recovery key is saved.

New kinds of stack

• In an evidence stack, every photo, video, voice memo and document added gets the time, a fingerprint of its exact bytes and, if you choose, where your iPhone was, and each fingerprint covers the one before it.
• A time-sealed stack keeps taking new things, but you can’t open it until the day you choose.
• Creating a time-sealed stack or an evidence stack is part of Sealed Pro, while opening one and adding to it are not.

Your setup on one page

• The Security Checkup is one page that shows what protects your vault today and what you could add.

iPhone Duo

• Since version 1.0.2, Sealed has layouts for both displays of iPhone Duo, and names Touch ID where that is what the device has.

What changed

• Version 1.0.1 is a small update: the App Store event Seven ways to unlock now opens the lock screen gallery in Sealed.
• The link only opens a screen you could reach by tapping: it never unlocks anything, and it waits until your vault is open.
• In Settings you can try every lock screen style live before choosing one, and nothing you try there is saved or counted as a wrong attempt.

Your files stay yours

• Sealed encrypts every file with AES-256-GCM before it is saved.
• Each file gets its own random 256-bit key, and that key is sealed with your vault key.
• Your vault key is kept in the iPhone Keychain, on this device only, and it can be read only while the phone is unlocked.
• We run no server, so there is nothing of yours for us to see.

Ways to open it

• You can open Sealed with Face ID or Touch ID, a 4-, 6- or 9-digit passcode, a password or a pattern.
• By default, after three wrong passcodes in a row Sealed locks entry for 30 seconds, then for 1, 5, 15 and finally 60 minutes after each further wrong try.
• Sealed locks as soon as you leave it unless you choose a delay, and it covers its contents in the app switcher.
• Maximum Security seals your vault key to a Secure Enclave key that can be used only after a live Face ID or Touch ID match.

Never lose a photo

• During setup Sealed gives you a recovery key: a long code of letters and numbers, in groups, that can bring your vault back.
• Encrypted iCloud backup is free.
• You can restore your vault on a new iPhone from your backup, with your recovery key.
• Recently Deleted keeps anything you remove for 30 days before it is gone for good.

What goes in the vault

• Photos and videos are sealed the moment they arrive, and afterwards you can remove the originals from Photos if you like.
• Stacks and sub-stacks keep your vault organized.
• Sealed Pro can scan paper with the camera, or import PDFs and other files, into the vault.
• Records keep logins, 2FA codes, credit cards, bank accounts, IDs and passports, Wi-Fi networks, recovery codes, license keys, contacts and custom fields.
• Voice memos record straight into the vault, and only while the recording screen is open.

In and out

• You can add photos from Photos, files from Files, and items from the share sheet of other apps.
• Wireless transfer sends files from your computer to your iPhone over your own Wi-Fi, and it is part of Sealed Pro.
• You can send someone an encrypted copy of an item that opens in Sealed with a passphrase you choose, and creating one is part of Sealed Pro.
• The private browser has tabs and tracker blocking, downloads go straight into the vault, and you switch it on in Settings under Beta Features.

Free and Pro

• The free plan holds up to 100 photos.
• Sealed Pro lifts the photo limit and adds, among other things, videos, documents, notes, records, the private camera, voice memos, wireless transfer, Space Saver, the duplicate finder and video trimming.
• Sealed Pro adds privacy tools including the decoy vault, a duress code, break-in photos, Dual Lock, Location Lock, Maximum Security, locked stacks and seven lock screens.