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Short guides to every screen in StrongRoom. The ? button in the app opens the one for the screen you are on.

• Welcome to StrongRoomStrongRoom keeps your photos, videos and documents locked on this phone. There is no account and nothing leaves your phone.
• Choose how to unlockYour unlock is the only key. Pick a pattern or a passphrase, and enter it twice.
• Your recovery phraseTwelve words that get you back in if you forget your unlock. They are shown once, so write them down.
• UnlockingDraw your pattern or type your passphrase to open your Vault.
• Forgot your unlock?Use your recovery phrase or Recovery PIN to choose a new pattern or passphrase.
• Your VaultEverything you keep lives here: photos, videos and documents, decrypted only while you look at them.
• FoldersFolders sort your items. They are one level deep.
• Viewing itemsLook at photos, videos and documents without leaving the app.
• SettingsChange your unlock, set a Recovery PIN, export your Vault and choose when the app locks.
• Change your unlockPick a new pattern or passphrase. Your items stay exactly as they are.
• More than one VaultA Pro feature. Each Vault opens with its own pattern or passphrase.
• Duress VaultA Pro feature for emergencies. Opening it erases every other Vault on this phone.
• Recovery PINAn optional 6 to 12 digit PIN that works like the recovery phrase, on this phone only.
• Export and restoreSave a Vault as one encrypted file, and bring it back on a new iPhone.
• Share itemsSend chosen items as an encrypted file. You give the other person the way to open it separately.
• Open a Share PackageOpen a Share Package someone sent you.
• StrongRoom ProPro removes the 10-item limit and adds more Vaults and the Duress Vault.