PicketyPickety privacy policy
Updated 3 November 2026
Pickety is made by Daniel Zammit, Hong Kong.
What the app does with your photos
Pickety reads the photos on your iPhone to pick the best ones and build a post. All of that happens on your phone. No photo, thumbnail or description of a photo is uploaded to us or to anyone else.
Captions
Captions are written on your iPhone by Apple Intelligence (Apple Foundation Models). No photo, and nothing the app works out about a photo, is sent to a server to write them. On a phone without Apple Intelligence, the app uses built-in templates.
Faces
To count the people in a photo, or to find photos of a person you choose, the app detects faces on your iPhone. To make repeat searches quick, it keeps a numeric face fingerprint for each photo it has checked, inside the app's own storage on your iPhone. Fingerprints are never uploaded, and deleting the app deletes them.
Place names
To name the place a photo was taken, the app sends the photo's location (and any place name you type) to Apple Maps, using Apple's geocoding service, in the same way the Photos app does. Apple's handling of this is covered by Apple's privacy policy. The app does not send your name, device identifiers or the photo itself. If you would rather no location be looked up, turn off Location for the Photos app in iPhone Settings, or remove location from the photos.
Accounts, analytics and advertising
There is no account or sign-in. The app contains no analytics, crash-reporting or advertising code and does not track you across apps or websites.
Purchases
Purchases are handled by Apple through the App Store. We never see your payment details. To stop the free post being used twice, the app keeps a small note that it was used (which photos, and when) in your iCloud Keychain, so it follows your Apple ID to a reinstall or a second device. It is not sent to us. If iCloud Keychain is off, the note stays on this iPhone only.
Data on your phone
Saved posts, settings and the photo scores the app has worked out are stored only on your iPhone (and in your iPhone backup). Deleting the app deletes them. Temporary copies made for sharing nine or more photos to Instagram are removed when you close the guide (your iPhone asks you to confirm the delete); your original photos are never touched. If you choose to keep shared posts in an album (in Settings), the app creates an album in Photos named after the app and the post; this is off by default.
Children
Pickety is not directed at children under 13.
Changes
If this policy changes, the new version will be posted at this address with a new date.