Phone Cleaner for iPhone, iPad Reviews

by CamNYC78

PhoneCleaner does exactly *nothing* unless you “upgrade” it. I’ve spend literally hundreds (and possibly more) on apps and in-app purchases. For apps that had free features, or apps that were only for pay. It doesn’t matter, different apps use different models to generate money: no one expects developers to work for free.

But as a consumer, I run away from deception and bait and switch. If they were dishonest now, why would I believe anything about their app wont be more of the same?

So developers, I’m not here to shame you, and I dont think you’re “bad guys”. But you could use a much better approach to your business. You’re client isn’t stupid. And if you’re making money with this model, you may be surprised a more honest approach might make you even more. And if not... well...

PLEASE NOTE: This review is of what I managed to use of this “free” download. As I was able to use “nothing”, and wasted my time and got aggravated in the process, I rate it one star: it failed on all fronts to help or do *any* of what it claimed it might.

by F1708

It will get your hopes up for no reason. It’ll take 10 minutes off your day by making you wait til it “finds the largest media” and when it finally does you can neither SEE what that is nor can you delete it. You can’t delete any of it. It’s all locked behind a paywall.

Edit: can y’all stop giving it 4 stars then agree that PhoneCleaner is essentially useless without the so-called “upgrade”? Give it 1 star so others know that PhoneCleaner is manipulating people and isn’t worth their time and money

by Nanomak

If you want to delete large number of photos&videos don’t rely on PhoneCleaner - neither it has swipe-select feature (you need to tap each photo individually), nor does it has a Select All button 🤦🏻‍♂️ And be warned it will ask for money to delete larger files, i.e. videos. Which would be ok, if it actually worked.

by Behind The Mask

Based upon the reviews, I had high hopes about PhoneCleaner, but I've now run "Find Similar Photos" four times—and each time, it gets to the end, then crashes. (PhoneCleaner quits.)

The first scan took nearly 15 minutes. (I have well over 100,000 photos.) No problem waiting, but the message that states the scan "might take up to two minutes" is wildly inaccurate.

Subsequent scans took about 2 minutes, but once the progress bar gets to the end, PhoneCleaner crashes EVERY time. As a result, I haven't been able to try the similar-photo removal feature at all.

iPhone XS Max
iOS 14.2

Developer, surely you've tested PhoneCleaner with large photo libraries, right?

by Djpayne

It won’t differentiate my iCloud photos and my phone storage photos so I’m just deleting things from my iCloud not actually saving space on my phone ! PhoneCleaner is awful I paid the money and it wasn’t even worth it. Donate this to charity if you wanna waste money at least it’s for a good cause. Look at the reviews and honestly tell me how PhoneCleaner is 4.5 stars.

by Annoyed!@#$%^&*&^%$#@!!!!!!

I wouldn’t mind paying $2.00 for PhoneCleaner. What I ***DO*** mind is getting partway through cleaning before encountering any mention of payment, which is called an “upgrade” but after which PhoneCleaner does not function. I no not care for being manipulated — I prefer making informed decisions. And with PhoneCleaner, it’s pricing model has informed me that I will delete and choose another. Perhaps PhoneCleaner with SO MANY MANY MORE downloads and the exact same high rating.

I wish to reiterate — it’s not the price, it’s the deception. Inform me that it’s trial version, it’s limits, and the price to buy. And call it a purchase, not an upgrade.

by Brit50

I’m not sure how to rate PhoneCleaner - I just downloaded it to clean up my duplicate photos. When I tell it to find them it works fine loading similar images until it gets almost to the end. Then it just stood and won’t go any further - then it crashes. I click on it again, tap find similar photos and it goes to the same spot and just stops - then crashes. I’ve tried it 4 times and it just won’t finish.

by Tic Tok Is Good!

The reason why I gave it a 1 cause 1 good:does not pay 2:it does not clean up storage 3:it did not do anything 4:the bugs 5: why doesent it give storage to phones? 6:idk does PhoneCleaner really work cause when I tryed it it just gave me more storage cause of PhoneCleaner pls make PhoneCleaner works cause I really need storage I wanted my phone really had and now I got the 64GB snow I have no more storage can u try to make PhoneCleaner work pls =w= thx!

by OkGoDoIt

So close to being what I want, I can filter down to the photos within a certain time span, excluding favorites. But now I want to delete all 10,000+ photos and there’s no way to do it without dragging to select every single one. Add a “delete all” button and it’ll be in easy five stars, something that should be included with iOS by default. But without a “delete all” function I’m not sure what the point is.

by Deviant_Panda

I don’t know where it dragged the supposed duplicate photos from on its list it creates but when I went back to check if a couple of photos PhoneCleaner had deleted really were duplicates, they were not.

Also, and luckily for me, it doesn’t delete the photos - it just places them in the phones ‘recently deleted’ folder. So to recover the space you must dump this folder first.

by Herbie The Dentist

I upgraded to get the full functionality. The issue is on the “Sort by size” when you click on the thumbnail, the picture window shows up - but no picture. Makes it hard to decide what to delete. This is an iPhone 7 with latest software, so shouldn’t be a capability issue. Will have to request refund.

by Apple IPhones Are Awesome

I downloaded this because my phone was lagging and glitching and I wanted to free up space. PhoneCleaner isn’t horrible, but utterly useless without the premium, which costs money. You can’t delete large media without a premium, you can’t use an ad blocker either.
Conclusion: Not bad, but if you want something truly non-profit and trustworthy, be sure you really want PhoneCleaner.

by BloomingtonPlayer

I have been using PhoneCleaner for over a year without any problems, then it deleted a bunch of my contacts and crashed repeatedly when trying to merge duplicate contacts.

Also: duplicate finder now crashes right before the scan is complete.

by IRevewPoo

I don’t understand why we can’t see the videos because that’s the thing that clog most people’s phones and give them no storage! And it doesn’t even let you see the thumbnail of the video! It just shows a lock. I’m mean if we can’t watch our videos, at least can we see the thumbnail?!?!?!? Is that too much to ask?(I just want to clarify that PhoneCleaner is amazing but I want to see my videos without having to pay)

by RevXBones

The program seems to be geared towards deleting important files!!! It is too aggressive with removing files and offered other “cleaning “ options far too RARELY! Archive! Flag for removal for reviewing the file FIRST!

by BOSS_HT

I have used PhoneCleaner for over one year, and I mainly use it to clean my duplicated anime pictures regularly. I really loved PhoneCleaner so much, it has helped me clean up at least over 1G storage. And this is the only app that works correctly and effectively, it does search all of your photo to find similar pictures instead of only searching similar photo by dates like other similar apps do. E.g today I stored some photos that I have already collected two month ago, PhoneCleaner will help me to find both of them and compare the storage usage of them. While other apps will only search for similar photo among pictures that I stored today, which is not helpful.

Ps: indeed, the first loading of PhoneCleaner is kind of slow, but after you start using it, it can work well and efficiently.

by Nluffeu

It’s really easy and it helps you to get to stuff that takes up all your space that you didn’t even know about

by Ru In An Narbr

The ad removal tool uses Safari as a web browser. Which is useless who the hell uses Safari anymore it Safari gets rederected to google etc. useless. I’m going to cancel before my free trail

by Warren Merkle

This is a simple and easy app to help you clean up space on your phone. Everyone needs a utility program to clean up the extra stuff that accumulates over a period of months. This is your app.

by Paininthrass

I had been getting error messages about too much memory and didn’t know what to do. But I cleaned my system with this iPad cleaner I found in PhoneCleaner section and it has done great! Wish I would’ve done this earlier!

by MTF Trooper

When I installed PhoneCleaner to clean my phone, I expected PhoneCleaner to work. Instead, this useless disappointment betrayed me and keeps asking me to f—-big pay to be able to use other features that aren’t delete 1 kilobyte photo. Who ever made PhoneCleaner should be ashamed and depressed, knowing they made one of, it not the most useless apps, I truly hope who ever made this breaks both their arms and legs.

by Yaelinp

It crashes a lot like every time I press on the contacts thingy it just crashes out of nowhere and it gets me really mad, and it also makes up contacts... I put a phone number in once and when I go to delete the duplicates it says I have 122 duplicates of that contact and then when I go to contacts and type in the number it says o only have one number and there is no duplicates😤

by Stewpad

To much money for what little it does from where I sit. I think I could have found better if I looked. I don't understand some things it's supposed to do but they should be big to make it worth it. I don't think I needed this CLESNER I thought it was virus cleaner. 1.99 later after I purchased it didn't do that.

by Beuford K. Partridge

For some reason when I change the setting on my iPhone I had duplicates of all of my pictures. All 5000 of them. PhoneCleaner made it really easy to erase all the duplicates!

by Rxck X

I don’t know why someone could give PhoneCleaner a bad review. It’s always worked fine for me. I’m amazed at how fast it works. Of all I’ve used this photo dup check is the best.

by Bowen401

I like when my system is running like a well clean machine, This works for me and I will keep using PhoneCleaner as long as it works for me!!

by Egdbf37

Cleaner helped me clear up so much storage so I could download movies or do anything else! I would definitely use it.