DSLR Camera: 100x Lens & Blur Privacy Policy

DSLR Camera: 100x Lens & Blur (the “App”) is a camera app for shooting things that are far away. It takes photos and videos with zoom of up to 100×, steadies long zoom using your phone’s motion sensors, can hold a distant subject in frame (Zoom Lock), shows a mini-map of where you are pointing, keeps the sharpest of several frames in Moon mode, and lets you edit photos and add DSLR-style background blur — to photos you take with it or ones you pick from your library. It is built to work entirely on your device.

The short version: we do not run servers, we do not create user accounts, we do not use analytics or advertising SDKs, and your photos and videos never leave your phone unless you choose to share them yourself. The only third party involved is RevenueCat, which manages in-app purchases.

The App does not collect, transmit or store on any server:

• Your photos, videos, audio, edits or the masks the App makes to blur a background.
• Your name, email address, phone number or any account information (there are no accounts).
• Your location. The App never asks for location permission, and photos and videos it saves carry no location.
• Motion sensor readings. They are used on your phone as they arrive and are never stored or sent anywhere (see “Motion sensors” below).
• Your photo library. The App never reads, scans or indexes it (see “Photo library” below).
• Your contacts, calendar, health data or any other data from other apps.
• Usage analytics, crash reports, advertising identifiers or behavioural tracking data.

The App asks for camera permission so it can show the viewfinder and take photos and videos, and for microphone permission when you first switch to video, so your videos have sound. You can record video without sound by declining microphone access. Camera and microphone data is processed on your device only and is never uploaded anywhere by the App.

Some features analyse the camera picture as it comes in, on your phone and in memory only: steadying long zoom, keeping a subject in frame with Zoom Lock, focus and exposure aids, and picking the sharpest frame in Moon mode. On iPhones that support it, the App can also capture depth information with a photo and use it on your device to tell the subject from the background for blurring. None of this is stored beyond the photo you take, and none of it leaves your phone.

A few things involve frames you did not take yourself. To draw the mini-map, the App keeps a small, low-resolution still of the wider view in its temporary storage while you use Telescope or Moon mode; it is replaced each time the map refreshes, is never saved to your library and is never sent anywhere. Where the App cannot read your camera’s zoom range directly, it takes one tiny, silent test frame to measure it, reads the zoom value and deletes the frame immediately; only the measured number is kept. Moon mode takes several frames for every photo and deletes all but the sharpest before saving.

You can revoke camera and microphone access at any time in iOS Settings › Privacy & Security. Without camera access the App cannot take photos.

The App reads your phone’s gyroscope and accelerometer while the camera is open. It uses them to steady the picture at long zoom, to hold the aimed point with Zoom Lock, to move the box on the mini-map as you pan, to tell when the phone is still enough for a sharp shot (Steady Shot), to show the level, and to save photos the right way up when you hold the phone sideways.

Motion readings are used the moment they arrive and then discarded. They are not recorded, not stored, not written into your photos and never leave your phone. iOS does not ask you for permission for this kind of motion data.

When you save a photo or video, the App asks iOS for add-only access to your photo library — the prompt that says “Add to Photos?”. That permission lets the App write the photos and videos you take or edit and nothing more; it does not allow reading your library, and the App does not request read access.

To edit a photo you already have, you pick it with Apple’s system photo picker, which runs outside the App: the App is handed only the one photo you tap and never sees the rest of your library. That photo is copied into the App’s temporary storage while you edit it, and saving your edit creates a new photo in your library; the original is not changed.

Once saved, a photo or video is an ordinary item in the Photos app, managed by iOS and by you. Deleting the App does not remove it.

To blur the background behind your subject, the App first works out which part of the photo is the subject. On iOS 17 and later this is done entirely on your phone by Apple’s Vision framework, and on iPhones with a depth-capable camera it can also use the depth information captured with the photo. Nothing is uploaded, and it works offline.

On iPhones running iOS 16, where Apple’s on-device subject detection is not available, the App instead uses Google’s open-source MediaPipe library, which it downloads — together with its detection models — the first time you use subject blur: the library from the jsDelivr content delivery network and the models from Google’s servers. Your photo is analysed inside the App and is not uploaded. Like any download, those requests reveal your IP address to the servers delivering the files, and they carry no account information, identifier or usage data.

Radial and tilt-shift blur, filters and adjustments are always applied on your phone.

On iOS 18 and later you can open the App from the Lock Screen, from Control Center or with the Camera Control button on iPhones that have one, and take photos without unlocking your phone. While your phone is locked, the App’s Lock Screen camera can only see the photos it takes in that session, and iOS keeps it from reaching anything else on your phone. If you have already allowed the App to add to Photos, those photos are saved to your library straight away; otherwise they wait in a private folder that only the App can open, and are moved into your library the next time you open the App and allow it.

Control Center controls and Shortcuts actions only open the App in the mode you chose. They run on your phone and send nothing anywhere.

The App makes no network requests of its own, apart from the one-time downloads for subject blur on iOS 16 described above. Nothing is uploaded, no configuration is fetched, and nothing is reported back to us about how you use the App.

The only other network traffic the App produces comes from Apple’s in-app purchase system and RevenueCat, described below: when the App starts, to check whether your purchase is active, and when you open the paywall, buy or restore a purchase. If you are asked to rate the App, the rating prompt is shown and handled by Apple.

If you open the Terms of Use, this Privacy Policy or your Apple subscription settings from inside the App, the page loads in an in-app browser or the App Store, and the server delivering the page — ours, or Apple’s — sees your IP address, as with any web page.

The following data is stored locally, in the App’s sandbox on your device, and nowhere else:

• Whether you have completed the introduction screens.
• Your settings: grid, level, Steady Shot, shutter sound, flash, timer, the number of frames Moon mode compares, and video quality and stabilization.
• The zoom range measured for your iPhone’s cameras, so the App does not have to measure it again.
• Simple counters: how many times the App has been opened, how many photos you have saved, when you were last asked for a rating, and how many free subject blurs you have used today. They decide when to show the rating prompt and the free daily limit, and never leave your phone.
• Temporary files: photos and videos while they are being processed and saved, the photo you are editing, the mini-map still, and Lock Screen photos waiting to be moved into your library. iOS clears temporary files when it needs space.
• Your purchase status, cached by RevenueCat so that the App keeps working offline.

Deleting the App removes everything it stores — your settings, the measured zoom range, the counters and any temporary files. There is nothing on our side to delete, because nothing was ever sent to us. Photos and videos you saved to your library are separate copies managed by the Photos app and are not affected. Your purchase record stays with Apple and can be restored after reinstalling the App.

Taking photos and videos, zoom up to 10×, Telescope mode with stabilization and the mini-map, manual camera controls, the editor, radial and tilt-shift blur and a few subject blurs a day are free. Zoom beyond 10×, Zoom Lock, Moon mode, unlimited subject blur, 48 MP and RAW capture, and 4K video require Pro, unlocked with an auto-renewing subscription. Purchases are processed by Apple through the App Store; we never see your payment details.

To validate purchases and keep the App unlocked across reinstalls, the App uses RevenueCat, a purchase management service. RevenueCat receives an anonymous, randomly generated app user identifier, your App Store purchase receipt, and basic device information (device model, OS version, app version, locale). This is the minimum information needed to confirm that a purchase is active. RevenueCat does not receive your name, your email or any of your photos and videos.

RevenueCat’s privacy policy is available at https://www.revenuecat.com/privacy. Apple’s privacy policy is available at https://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/.

The App is a general-audience camera, rated 4+. Whatever the age of the person using it, the App behaves the same way and collects the same amount of information about them: none.

There are no accounts, no sign-in, no messaging, no social features, no advertising, no analytics and no third-party tracking, and the App gives no one — child or adult — any way to send personal information to us. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children, and since we collect none from anyone, there is nothing about a child for us to hold, use, disclose, sell or delete. If you believe a child has somehow provided personal information to us, email us and we will delete anything we find.

Purchases are made through the Apple Account signed in on the device. Parents can require approval for every purchase using Ask to Buy, or block in-app purchases entirely in iOS Settings › Screen Time. If a child has made a purchase without permission, contact Apple Support to request a refund.

Because we hold no personal data about you on any server, requests to access, correct, export or delete your data are fulfilled entirely by you, on your device, as described above. If you have a question about your rights under GDPR, the UK GDPR, CCPA/CPRA or similar laws, or want to know what RevenueCat holds for your anonymous identifier, contact us and we will help.

We do not sell personal information, and we do not share it for cross-context behavioural advertising, as those terms are used in California law. We never have, and there is nothing for us to sell or share.

Your settings and temporary files are stored in the App’s private container, protected by iOS sandboxing and your device passcode and encryption. Photos taken from the Lock Screen are held in a folder iOS gives only to the App. Communication with RevenueCat and Apple, and the one-time downloads on iOS 16, use TLS.

No app, device or transmission can be made perfectly secure. We keep the risk low by holding as little as possible and keeping it on your device, but we cannot guarantee absolute security, and you are responsible for keeping your device updated and locked with a passcode.

If we change how the App handles data, we will update this page and the “Last updated” date. Material changes will also be described in the App Store release notes for the update that introduces them.

Appcelerator Studio is the data controller for DSLR Camera: 100x Lens & Blur. For any privacy question or request, email team@appcelerator.studio.