Privacy Policy
Corners (相角) is a photo album app for iPhone and iPad, made by Corners (“we”). This policy explains how Corners handles your information.
In short: your photos are processed only on your own device and are never uploaded to our servers — we don’t have servers for user data. Corners has no accounts, no ads and no tracking.
Photos
- Corners reads the photos you allow it to access through Apple’s Photos framework (PhotoKit). Developing your prints, choosing them and mounting them in albums all happen on your device; your photos are not sent to us.
- You can change Corners’ access to your photos at any time in iOS Settings: all photos, selected photos, or none. When Corners picks photos, it leaves out the ones you’ve hidden in Photos.
- If your photos are kept in iCloud Photos, iOS may download them from your iCloud so that Corners can work with them on your device. Apple handles this.
- To choose, frame and group your photos, Corners uses Apple’s on-device features to look at them: for example, what is in a picture, and where faces are (only where they are, never who they are). On devices with Apple Intelligence, Corners also uses Apple’s on-device language model to suggest a title for an album. All of this happens on your device.
- Snapshots taken with Corners’ camera are developed on your device too, and the original is saved to your photo library.
- Corners changes your photo library only when you act: a photo you like is added to Favorites; snapshot originals and the flip-through videos you save are added to your library; when you choose to delete photos, iOS asks you first, and deleted photos go to Recently Deleted.
- Photos and videos you share or export go, through the iOS share sheet, to the app or place you choose.
Place names
- To write the place under a photo, Corners sends the location recorded in the photo, rounded to about 100 metres, to Apple Maps to look up the place name. Only that point is sent, never the photo.
- Corners doesn’t ask for your device’s location. It only uses the locations already recorded in your photos.
- You can turn off Place names in Corners’ Settings. When it’s off, Corners sends no location at all.
- Apple Maps handles these lookups under Apple’s Privacy Policy.
iCloud sync
- Corners can keep your shelf, albums, prints and settings in your own iCloud (Apple’s CloudKit private database), so they are the same on every device signed in to your Apple Account. Prints are copies of your photos; the originals stay in your photo library.
- This data is stored by Apple in your iCloud account. We can’t read it.
- On a device signed in to iCloud, iCloud sync is on by default. You can turn it off at any time in Corners’ Settings. Turning it off stops syncing but doesn’t delete what is already in iCloud; see “Deleting your data” below.
Purchases
- Corners Membership, yearly, monthly or lifetime, is bought through the App Store, and Apple processes the payment. We never see your payment details or your Apple Account information.
- Corners asks the App Store, on your device, which purchases you have, to unlock your membership.
Nothing collected, nothing tracked
- Corners has no accounts: there is nothing to sign up for or sign in to.
- Corners has no ads, doesn’t track you and doesn’t use the advertising identifier.
- Corners contains no third-party analytics, crash reporting, advertising or other SDKs, and sends no usage data to us or anyone else. Apart from the Apple services above (Photos, iCloud, Apple Maps and the App Store), it connects to no servers.
- If you’ve turned on Share With App Developers in iOS Settings, under Privacy & Security and then Analytics & Improvements, Apple may share crash reports and other diagnostics with us, in a form that doesn’t identify you and under Apple’s rules. That choice is yours, in iOS.
This website
corners.photos sets no cookies and loads no analytics, tracking or third-party scripts or resources. It is hosted by Cloudflare. As with any website, requests to it, including your IP address, pass through Cloudflare’s network so that the site can be delivered and protected.
Email to us
When you write to support@corners.photos, we receive your email address and your message. We use them only to reply to you, and we never share them. You can ask us to delete them at any time.
Children
Corners doesn’t collect personal information from anyone, children included. If you believe a child has sent us personal information by email, contact us and we will delete it.
Deleting your data
- On your device: deleting the Corners app deletes everything it keeps on your device. Photos and videos already saved to Photos stay there.
- In iCloud: turn off iCloud sync in Corners’ Settings. Then open iOS Settings, tap your name, go to iCloud’s storage management, find Corners and delete its data.
- We hold no data about you. If you’ve written to us, you can ask us to delete your emails.
Changes
If this policy changes, we will update this page and the effective date above.