Observed arrival · 2026-08-24
CleanMe, the iPhone cleaner that says what it cannot do
CleanMe is a privacy-first storage cleaner for duplicate and near-duplicate photos, screenshots, blurry shots, oversized videos, contacts, and files.
Field notes
The proposed scan separates screenshots from photographs, uses perceptual matching for near-duplicates, and surfaces blur through Laplacian variance rather than relying only on filenames or checksums. For files, the page describes a staged process of size comparison, a 64 KB probe hash, and full SHA-256 verification. It also warns that iCloud Photos is synchronization rather than backup, and that deleted photos can remain in Recently Deleted for 30 days.
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