Export everything

A vault is only trustworthy if getting out is as easy as getting in. Export is how you check that, and how you leave if you ever want to.

What it does

Silo can hand your items back in three ways:

• Save a photo or video to your photo library.
• Share one item through your phone’s share sheet, or save a file to a folder.
• Export everything from Settings. Silo writes all your originals to a folder you choose, with your albums as folders. Files you added come out too.

All of this is free on every plan. When a plan ends, you can still view and export everything. Only adding new items stops.

How it works, step by step

1. For one item, open it and choose Save or Share. Photos and videos can go to your photo library. Files can be shared or saved to a folder.
2. For several items, choose Select, tick them and choose Save or Export.
3. For everything, open Settings and choose Export everything, then pick a folder.
4. Silo decrypts each item as it goes and writes the original file at full quality.
5. If you lock the vault or the phone mid-way, Silo stops and says so. Nothing is half-finished without telling you.

Why it matters

Plenty of vault apps keep your photos in a form only they can read, which makes leaving painful. Silo’s promise is the opposite: your photos come back as they went in, and the file format is published so that even a computer with no Silo on it can read a vault copy with your recovery phrase.

Export is also the simplest way to make a copy of your own to keep somewhere you choose, until backup arrives with launch.