Screen recording cleaner for iPhone.

The files nobody remembers making

Screen recordings are created in a hurry and forgotten immediately: a bug you wanted to show someone, a video call you needed to check, a level you were stuck on, a scrolling list you sent to a friend. Each one is a full video file at your device's resolution, and each one lands in the same library as your photos, where it disappears into the grid.

Because they are video, they are expensive. Two minutes commonly weighs 50 to 200 MB, and long recordings can pass a gigabyte. A dozen forgotten recordings is a gigabyte and a half sitting in a library that is complaining about storage.

They also hide in plain sight. iOS groups them with screenshots in the Photos app, so a quick look at that album shows a wall of thumbnails where the recordings look like just another tile — until you notice the size.

How they are detected, and why size comes first

Screen recordings carry their own media subtype in the photo library, separate from screenshots and from ordinary video. TidyByte reads that flag, and falls back to the RPReplay_Final filename pattern that iOS writes for recordings, so nothing is guessed from resolution, aspect ratio or duration.

1. Sort by size, largest first. The top few files are usually the whole win; a single long recording can outweigh everything else in the list.
2. Check the total before you delete. The selection bar shows the combined size, so you know what the confirmation is worth.
3. Deselect the one you still need. Tapping a selected recording takes it out of the deletion, so anything worth keeping stays exactly where it is.
4. Delete in one pass. One iOS confirmation, and everything removed stays in Recently Deleted for 30 days.

Recordings and screenshots are different problems

Screenshots are numerous and small; recordings are few and enormous. Treating them as one pile is why the Screenshots album in Photos feels unmanageable: you scroll past hundreds of tiny images to reach the handful of files that actually matter.

TidyByte keeps them apart. Start with Screen Recordings, where a few decisions return most of the space, then work through Screenshots at your leisure. If a recording is worth keeping but not worth its size, video compression can shrink it instead of deleting it.

For libraries where video is the dominant category, this ordering is the fastest route to a meaningful number: recordings first, then long videos, then everything else.