Finally ! A St@sh (Stash) replacement.
For years I have searched for a replacement to the great St@sh (Stash) app. It was by far the greatest for hiding all kinds of files from snoops. ***** But every other photo / video protection app on the iPhone falls grossly short. Most don’t play videos beyond the simple playing. They don’t offer Replay, Slow Motion, and more needed abilities. ***** And other protection apps have an essentially stupid problem. Those apps don’t truly encrypt their files. Password protection doesn’t mean the videos and photos can’t be seen via alternate methods used by knowledgable people. To truly protect files, the must be truly encrypted. And when those developers call them encrypted, they are simply lying to you. You can simply backup or download the iOS data to your computer by iMazing, etc. and browse through the photos and videos at will. ***** Finally, I found this Private Photo Video app. ***** It has almost all the abilities that St@sh had, and some it did not have. (St@sh is no longer available on the new iOS operating system.) ***** Private Photo Video has the ability to Rotate videos independent of turning your iPhone for instance. St@sh could not do that. ***** And it has the abilities of St@sh, like Speed Control, forward and backward to other videos, and Repeat Play (done via a Global Setting). ***** Where the app surely needs improvement are the following. ***** It absolutely needs a Decoy Password. ***** Part of the reason the Decoy Password area is needed is the name of the app itself. It invites snoops. And the name says there is ONLY secret stuff and it is behind a password. ***** So put in the Decoy Password and the person begging to see what is in there is taken to a totally different set of Photos and Videos. Perhaps just photos of ladies at a public swimming pool. ***** This function is sooooo needed. ***** Private Photo Video apparently tries to get around that by password protecting individual folders. We can encrypt a single folder by Long Pressing on the folder. So one folder is password protecting photos at swimming pool. “But I want you to show me what is in the other folders that you won’t open for me. They must be super racy.” ***** The way St@sh did the Decoy Password was this. You could name folders and password protect some with the Decoy Password. So now the app looks and works like any one would expect. ***** But to gain access to your “treasure”, you open the app anew and for the first few seconds, you can t
