It depends on how you feel about tracking: Smart Cleaner: Storage Free Up declares data used to track you. None of it falls in Apple's most sensitive categories (health, financial, location, contacts or your own content). In total the label lists 3 data types; 72% of video storage apps we checked declare tracking.
Smart Cleaner: Storage Free Up privacy in one look
- 1Collects nothing
- 2Not linked
- 3Linked
- 4Tracks you
Built only from the developer's App Store label. It describes disclosure, not tested behaviour.
Smart Cleaner: Storage Free Up's developer reports using identifiers, usage data to track you across other companies' apps and websites.
Did Smart Cleaner: Storage Free Up ask for something?
Pick the permission prompt you saw. We compare it with what Smart Cleaner: Storage Free Up's developer declared.
Location is not on Smart Cleaner: Storage Free Up's label. That can be fine: data used only on your iPhone does not have to be declared. If the data would need to leave the phone for the feature to work, ask why it is missing.
User Content is not on Smart Cleaner: Storage Free Up's label. That can be fine: data used only on your iPhone does not have to be declared. If the data would need to leave the phone for the feature to work, ask why it is missing.
Contacts is not on Smart Cleaner: Storage Free Up's label. That can be fine: data used only on your iPhone does not have to be declared. If the data would need to leave the phone for the feature to work, ask why it is missing.
Smart Cleaner: Storage Free Up declares data used to track you, so expect the “Allow to track?” prompt. Tap Ask App Not to Track; the app must keep working without it.
Health & Fitness is not on Smart Cleaner: Storage Free Up's label. That can be fine: data used only on your iPhone does not have to be declared. If the data would need to leave the phone for the feature to work, ask why it is missing.
A permission is what the app can reach on your iPhone; the label is what the developer says leaves it. They answer different questions.
What Smart Cleaner: Storage Free Up collects, explained
| Data type | What it covers | Where to limit it |
|---|---|---|
| IdentifiersUsed to track youLinked to you | An account ID, screen name, customer number or a device-level ID such as the advertising identifier. | Settings › Privacy & Security › Tracking: turn off Allow Apps to Request to Track, or tap Ask App Not to Track when prompted. |
| Usage DataUsed to track youLinked to youNot linked to you | What you tap, open and view inside the app, plus which ads you have seen. | There is no single iOS switch. Look for an analytics or personalised-ads toggle in the app's own settings. |
| DiagnosticsNot linked to you | Crash logs, launch times, hang rates and energy use. | Settings › Privacy & Security › Analytics & Improvements › Share With App Developers controls what Apple passes on; the app's own crash reporting is separate. |
What Smart Cleaner: Storage Free Up's label means for you
Smart Cleaner: Storage Free Up's label has 2 types under “Data Used to Track You”, 2 types under “Data Linked to You”, 2 types under “Data Not Linked to You”. A data type can appear in more than one section when it is used for different purposes — for example, identifiers used for both analytics and advertising.
Tracking is the declaration that most separates apps. It means identifiers, usage data from Smart Cleaner: Storage Free Up can be combined with data from other companies to target or measure ads, or shared with data brokers. On iOS 14.5 and later, the app must ask your permission before tracking you through the advertising identifier; answering “Ask App Not to Track” blocks that identifier and tells the developer you have declined.
None of the data types fall into the categories most people consider sensitive: health, financial information, precise location, contacts, browsing history or the content you create.
Video storage apps upload large personal files, often including faces and voices of other people. Check upload settings over cellular, who can access shared videos and how to delete a video from the server, not just the app.
Among the 108 video storage apps in our snapshot with a label, 72% declare tracking, 80% collect data linked to you and 14% say they collect nothing. Smart Cleaner: Storage Free Up lists 3 data types, about the same as the average of 2.9 for this group.
Utilities range from calculators to VPNs, so their labels vary more than any other category. A simple tool that collects identifiers and usage data for tracking is a sign of advertising SDKs.
Settings to check for Smart Cleaner: Storage Free Up
- 1
Tracking
Settings › Privacy & Security › Tracking. If “Allow Apps to Request to Track” is off, apps cannot ask, and they are told to treat you as having declined. You can also turn it off for this app alone.
- 2
Photos
Settings › Privacy & Security › Photos. Limited Access lets you pick exactly which pictures the app can see; Add Photos Only lets it save without reading your library.
- 3
Lock the app
On iOS 18 and later, touch and hold the icon and choose Require Face ID. Anyone who picks up your unlocked phone then needs your face, fingerprint or passcode to open it.
- 4
Notifications
Settings › Notifications › Smart Cleaner: Storage Free Up › Show Previews: When Unlocked keeps message and account details off the Lock Screen.
Does Smart Cleaner: Storage Free Up track you?
Identifiers and usage data. Apple defines tracking as linking data from this app with data from other companies' apps, websites or offline sources for targeted advertising or ad measurement, or sharing it with a data broker.
Does Smart Cleaner: Storage Free Up track you? Full answer and how to stop it →
Lock Smart Cleaner: Storage Free Up behind Face ID
- Find Smart Cleaner: Storage Free Up on your Home Screen or in App Library.
- Touch and hold the icon until the quick-actions menu opens.
- Tap Require Face ID (or Require Touch ID / Require Passcode, depending on your iPhone).
- Tap Require Face ID again to confirm. Smart Cleaner: Storage Free Up now asks for authentication every time it opens.
The lock is an iPhone feature, so it works whether or not Smart Cleaner: Storage Free Up has a passcode of its own. It does not change what the app sends to its developer.
About Smart Cleaner: Storage Free Up
| Developer | Dream Eyes Company (HK) Limited |
| App Store category | Utilities |
| Latest version | 2.2.2, released February 2026 |
| First released | November 2025 |
| Requires | iOS 15.0 or later |
| Size | 83 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ |
| Languages | 13 (EN, FR, DE, ID, IT, JA, KO, PT…) |
| Bundle ID | dreameye.storage.master.smartcleaner |
The current version shipped in February 2026. That is recent enough that the label should reflect current practices, but check the App Store page again before relying on it.
What the label cannot tell you
- A label is self-reported. Apple publishes the developer's answers and can reject apps that misrepresent them, but it does not independently verify what Smart Cleaner: Storage Free Up sends.
- It does not say where data is stored, how long it is kept, whether it is encrypted, or which companies receive it. The privacy policy covers those points.
- Optional data counts: if a feature lets you add something (a profile photo, a phone number), the type is listed even if you never use the feature.
- Data handled only on your iPhone is not 'collected', so a no-collection label is compatible with an app that reads your files locally.
- Third-party sign-in, payment processors and SDKs are supposed to be included, but a label can lag behind a new version.
The question to ask Smart Cleaner: Storage Free Up's developer: When I delete a video, is it deleted from the server too?
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Your Smart Cleaner: Storage Free Up privacy checklist
Done. You have applied every control the label points to.
True or false?
- Right.Not quite.
True: it lists identifiers and usage data under Data Used to Track You.
- Right.Not quite.
Labels are self-reported by developers. Apple can reject or remove apps that misrepresent practices, but it does not audit each label.
- Right.Not quite.
True: Identifiers appears on its label.
- Right.Not quite.
It is collected and sent; the developer says it is de-identified rather than tied to your account or device.
- Right.Not quite.
Apple's rules require apps to work the same whether or not you allow tracking.
Smart Cleaner: Storage Free Up privacy FAQ
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Does Smart Cleaner: Storage Free Up track you?
What data does Smart Cleaner: Storage Free Up collect?
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Can I lock Smart Cleaner: Storage Free Up with Face ID?
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When I delete a video, is it deleted from the server too?
How do I delete my data from Smart Cleaner: Storage Free Up?
For photos and documents you choose to keep apart from your main library, see VaultForYou.