Great...but could be even better! – Private Photo Vault - Pic Safe Review

I’ve had Photo Vault for a long time, it’s a great app to safely store more sensitive photos and videos. I love the fact that you can easily transfer files through iTunes as well. However, there are a couple of features that I think would make this a perfect 5-star app. 1. Video playback is less than ideal. It is as if the app opens a new page to play videos and then you have to click “Done” to exit and watch the next video in the album...I should just be able to swipe to the next video (as with the Photos app) or even have an option to let it auto-play to the next video in the album. I also think the scrub-scroll feature it not good, often times I end up opening the Notification Center when trying to do so and need to type in passcode again and find myself on the main page. Would be more functional to scroll through the video in a similar fashion to the Photos app, in my opinion. 2. No iCloud backup support. I’m not sure if this is an app function or a limitation by how Apple’s iCloud backup works, not crucial for me but would certainly be a huge plus. When I got the new iPhone a couple of months ago it did not tranfer ANY of the files in the app after I restored from iCloud backup, it’s as if I deleted and downloaded the app from scratch. Luckily I had also made a backup through iTunes so I re-restored from there. But it defeats the purpose of backing up on iCloud, which I do because I do not have any storage space left on my Mac, so this would be a great feature to have as well. Overall definitely an app worth getting if you have any photos/videos you’d rather not have your friends/family/colleagues seeing while they recklessly scroll through your photos, but the app design feels a little outdated and non intuitive as with some other photo apps (such as iPhone’s own app). Updating that would definitely have me giving this a 5-star rating, and if iCloud backup support can be added too that would be a huge plus.
Review by TurkishTrigger on Private Photo Vault - Pic Safe.