The most common questions about ShareWipe, with clear and detailed answers
Yes. ShareWipe helps you redact screenshots on iPhone by detecting text, faces, QR codes, phone numbers, addresses, and other sensitive details before you share.
Yes. ShareWipe can detect text in screenshots and lets you blur or redact only the parts you want to hide.
Yes. ShareWipe can detect faces in photos and helps you blur them before posting, forwarding, or saving.
Yes. ShareWipe can remove EXIF and GPS metadata, including location and device details, before you share a photo.
Yes. You can scan paper documents, auto-crop and straighten pages, review them, and export them as PDF on iPhone.
Yes. ShareWipe lets you combine scanned pages or cleaned images into one PDF for easier sharing and delivery.
Yes. ShareWipe helps you clean PDFs before sharing, including removing metadata and exporting a safer PDF copy.
No. ShareWipe always exports a new cleaned copy. Your original screenshot, photo, or PDF stays unchanged.
Open the screenshot in ShareWipe from Photos or the iOS share sheet. It detects text, faces, QR codes, and more so you can blur or redact only what you need, then export a safe copy.
ShareWipe can strip EXIF and GPS metadata from photos before you share, so location and device details are not embedded in the file you send.
Yes. You can combine cleaned images or scanned pages into a single PDF in ShareWipe for easier sharing and delivery.
Open the PDF in ShareWipe, review detected sensitive areas and metadata, remove or redact what you need, then export a cleaner PDF copy. Your original stays unchanged.
Yes. Detection is item-by-item, so you can keep the readable parts and only hide sensitive regions before exporting.
ShareWipe is a privacy-cleaning tool for before you share. It detects sensitive content in screenshots, photos, and PDFs, lets you review each item, and exports a safe copy — all on device.
Normal markup tools only let you cover things manually. ShareWipe detects faces, QR codes, text, addresses, and more, lets you control each item, and works directly from the iOS share sheet.
By default, everything is processed on your device. Scanning, detection, and cleaning do not upload your content to the cloud.
Not always. You can launch ShareWipe directly from the iOS share sheet and clean content before sending it.
Faces, QR codes, text regions, email addresses, phone numbers, credit card numbers, license plates, address details, and EXIF/GPS metadata.
Yes.
ShareWipe lets you:
This means you don’t have to “redact everything at once.” Instead, you can make precise decisions about what to clean and what to keep.
Yes.
If the auto-detection misses something, you can manually add redaction areas, and you can also delete or undo existing ones.
This way, even with complex images or unusual scenarios, you can always do a final check yourself instead of relying entirely on auto-detection.
Several common styles are currently available, including:
Different situations call for different styles. For example, work screenshots might call for a clean, straightforward black box, while social sharing might be better suited to blur, mosaic, or Emoji.
Portrait background blur keeps the main subject in focus while softening the background to reduce environmental information.
This is especially useful for:
If you want to reduce overall environmental exposure rather than just blocking one small area, this feature provides a more natural result.
Yes.
You can select multiple images at once, scan them all, adjust each one individually, and export or share them in batch.
This is a big help for common high-volume scenarios like:
If you frequently need to process many images at once, batch processing will save you a lot of time.
Long-image stitching combines multiple consecutive screenshots into a single long image, then scans and cleans the result as one piece.
It’s great for:
This saves you from processing each screenshot one by one and makes it much easier to share complete content at once.
Document scanning is designed for physical paper documents.
You can use your camera to scan paper pages, and the system will automatically crop, straighten, and enhance them before passing them into the cleaning workflow.
Great for:
It goes beyond just “taking a photo”—it produces something much closer to a professional, share-ready document.
In addition to capturing paper content, document scanning provides:
So it’s not just about “capturing it”—it’s about “tidying it up before sharing.”
Yes.
You can scan multiple pages in a row and then, in the document review screen:
This is especially handy for multi-page content like contracts, receipts, and application materials.
Scanned documents support several export and follow-up options, such as:
Different situations call for different approaches: for a quick share you can export directly, while for formal delivery it’s better to compile everything into a PDF.
Yes.
You can bind multiple cleaned images into a single PDF and share it all at once.
This is more convenient for work deliverables, document organisation, receipt archiving, and bulk sending—and it matches the expectations of many professional workflows.
PDF metadata cleaning means removing information embedded in the PDF that could reveal its source before you share it, such as:
Many people focus only on the visible page content but overlook the fact that the file itself can carry traceable information. ShareWipe takes care of that layer too.
Common scenarios include:
Whenever you worry before sharing that something in the content shouldn’t be seen by others, ShareWipe is the right tool for the job.
Processed results may be saved in your local history so you can review and re-share them later.
Core processing runs locally by default and is not automatically uploaded to the cloud. If optional cloud-based AI features are introduced later, you’ll be clearly notified before anything is uploaded.
Yes.
Processed results are saved in your history, making it easy to:
If you find yourself reusing the same content, the history feature is very handy.
The free version lets you complete the core image privacy cleaning and basic sharing workflow, and experience ShareWipe’s main processing capabilities.
You can start with:
If you need higher frequency use, more pages, more styles, or more batch workflows, upgrading to Pro is the way to go.
Because we want everyone to be able to handle the most basic, essential privacy cleaning first, and then offer the more advanced, full-featured capabilities for power users through Pro.
For example:
If you only use it occasionally, the free version is a great starting point. If you regularly process screenshots, documents, and PDFs, Pro will save you a lot of time.
The watermark distinguishes free-version exports from Pro-version exports.
If you want cleaner output that’s better suited for formal delivery or long-term archiving, you can upgrade to Pro to remove the watermark.
That’s expected.
ShareWipe applies processing to sensitive areas based on the rules and styles you’ve enabled, such as:
The goal isn’t to keep the image “completely unchanged”—it’s to make the content safer to share.
Auto-detection can be affected by a number of factors, such as:
That’s why ShareWipe doesn’t rely solely on auto-detection—it also provides preview, per-item toggles, and manual redaction so you can always do a final check yourself.
Yes.
ShareWipe has been optimised for iPad, so you can preview, organise, and process images or documents on a larger screen.
If an auto-scan fails, you can usually still:
If the issue persists, you can reach out to us through the feedback option in the Settings page.
Absolutely.
If you frequently need to share screenshots, documents, receipts, order pages, or PDFs, ShareWipe makes the “check for risks first, then send safely” process faster, more reliable, and more controllable.
It’s especially well-suited for:
No.
ShareWipe is not a general-purpose PDF editor. It’s focused specifically on pre-share privacy protection and safe exporting.
In other words, it’s not designed for complex editing—it’s designed to give you peace of mind before you hit send.
In a nutshell: clean first, share second.
Our goal is to make every screenshot, photo, document, and PDF you share just a little bit safer.
Yes.
ShareWipe can add an open password to a PDF so that only people with the password can view it.
This is useful for:
The encryption is applied before you share, so the recipient needs the password to open the file.
Yes.
With ShareWipe Pro, you can set PDF permissions that prevent the recipient from:
This is an additional layer of control on top of password protection.
Yes.
ShareWipe lets you add a custom watermark to PDFs before sharing. This is useful when you want to mark documents as "Confidential," "Draft," or add your own branding before sending.
Rule templates are preset configurations for different sharing scenarios.
ShareWipe includes templates for:
You can also use the Default template or customise your own. Templates let you skip manual configuration and start cleaning faster.
Portrait background blur keeps the main subject in focus while softening the background to reduce environmental information.
This is especially useful for:
If you want to reduce overall environmental exposure rather than just blocking one small area, this feature provides a more natural result.