Verified import

The scariest moment with any vault app is the one where you delete your originals. If the copy in the vault is damaged, half-written or never made, you only find out later, when the original is gone.

Silo removes that leap of faith. Every photo, video and file you import is encrypted, written to the vault, and then read back and checked before Silo treats it as safe.

How it works

1. You pick what to import. Photos and videos from your photo library, or any file from your phone.
2. Silo encrypts each item on your phone and writes it into the vault. Nothing leaves the phone.
3. Silo reads the item back from the vault, decrypts it and compares it with what it imported.
4. Only verified items count. When the check passes, Silo can offer to remove the original from your photo library. It always asks first.

Before you confirm, Silo also tells you plainly what happens next. Your phone keeps removed photos in its own deleted folder for a while, and if you don’t have a backup yet, Silo says so.

Why it matters

Vault apps lose photos in boring ways: an import interrupted by a call, a phone that ran out of space, a file that was written but never finished. Each of these looks fine until you try to open the photo months later.

Checking every item at the moment it arrives catches these problems while the original still exists. That is the whole point: you never have to trust that the copy is good, because Silo has already checked.

After import

Verified import is one part of keeping things safe over time:

• Vault health can read your items back again whenever you like and tell you plainly if anything needs attention.
• Export everything gives you full copies back at any time, on any plan.
• If a plan ends, you can still view, export and delete everything you stored.