Yeta Camera Privacy Policy
Effective 30 October 2026
Yeta Camera is a camera app for iPhone made by Alex Chen (“the developer”, “we”). In short: your photos stay on your iPhone, the app has no account and no network connection, and nothing is sent to us unless you choose to send it.
What the app uses on your iPhone
- Camera, to take photos. iOS asks for your permission first. From the Lock Screen (Camera Control), the app shows the camera’s live picture and asks you to unlock; it saves nothing there.
- Photos (add only), only if you turn on auto-save to the system album or export a photo. The app can add photos to your library but cannot read it.
- The app’s own storage, where your photos (DNG and JPEG), edits, settings and, in test versions, the usage log are kept. You can see this folder in the Files app.
The app does not use your location, contacts, microphone or any advertising identifier, and it contains no analytics or advertising code.
Your photos
Photos are taken, developed and stored on your iPhone. They are never uploaded by the app. They leave your iPhone only when you share or export them yourself, when the Photos app syncs your library through your own iCloud settings, or in your iPhone’s iCloud or computer backup, under your own backup settings. Photo files record the app’s name and version and the camera’s usual details (iPhone model, lens, exposure, date, time and time zone); they contain no location. A photo you delete stays in the app for 30 days so it can be restored, then it is erased.
The usage log (test versions)
Test versions of the app, distributed through Apple’s TestFlight, keep a usage log on your iPhone to help find bugs. It records what was tapped and where on the screen, which pages and settings were used, how the iPhone was held, camera events, which photos were taken, edited, exported or deleted (by their file names, which are the times they were taken), freezes and crashes, memory, processor, heat (iOS’s thermal state) and battery readings, free storage, and the iPhone model and iOS version. It does not contain your photos, anything you type, your name, your contacts or any device identifier.
- The log stays on your iPhone. The newest logs up to about 200 MB are kept; older ones are deleted automatically.
- It is sent to us only if you tap Settings › About › Send usage log, which opens an email to us that you review and send yourself, with the newest logs (up to about 20 MB) and a note of the app version, iPhone model, iOS version and language and region setting attached. Without Mail set up, it opens the share sheet instead, and you choose where the file goes. By email we receive the log and your email address; the email passes through your email provider and ours (Cloudflare, which forwards it, and Gmail).
- You can turn the log off at any time in Settings › About › Usage log. Versions from the App Store start with it off.
We use logs you send only to find and fix problems in the app, never for advertising, and we don’t share them with anyone. We delete them once the problem they describe is solved, and within 12 months at the latest.
TestFlight and Apple
If you test the app through TestFlight, Apple collects information such as crash reports, the feedback and screenshots you choose to send, and basic device details, and shares them with us under Apple’s own terms. See Apple’s TestFlight privacy information in the TestFlight app.
Children
The app is not directed at children and collects no personal information from anyone by itself.
Deleting your data
Deleting the app removes its photos, edits, settings and logs from your iPhone (photos you saved to the Photos app stay there). To get a copy of a log you sent us, or to have it deleted, write to us at the address below.
Changes
If this policy changes, the new version will be posted on this page with a new date.
Contact
Alex Chen · support@yeta.studio