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Your first smaller copy is free. It only counts once it is saved and checked in Photos. Comparisons, failures, cancellations, the demo and videos that were already light do not use it up.

Keep both keeps both files in Photos. The sizes shown are file sizes, not a measure of space freed on the iPhone. After Replace the original, the original stays in Recently Deleted in Photos for 30 days, and the space only comes back once it leaves that album. To free it sooner, open Photos › Collections › Utilities › Recently Deleted and delete the video (the “Original in Recently Deleted” card on the home screen offers Open Photos). After that, it cannot be recovered. When you come back, tap I emptied it: the app measures your available space and shows before and after (for example, “Available space: 3.2 GB → 9.8 GB”). It is a reading of the system's value, not a promise; your iPhone may take a few minutes to update it, and Photos and iCloud may also adjust storage use at a later time.

In the list, the size of a video that hasn't been analyzed yet is estimated from its duration and resolution, so the largest ones can come first without downloading originals. In Choose size, each option — Nearly identical, Balanced and Much smaller — shows the estimated size and percentage before anything is processed, calculated from that option's target bit rate. The home screen adds those estimates up in “≈ … to save across your largest videos”. These are estimates: the final size is only confirmed when the smaller copy is done.

Tap Select in the video list and pick several videos (up to 50), or use Make all N light under Start here on the home screen. Pick one size for all of them and tap Make N light. ClipLeve processes one video at a time, with the usual verification, and skips the ones that are already light or aren't compatible. If you turn on Replace originals when done, once every smaller copy has been checked in Photos, a single iPhone confirmation moves those originals to Recently Deleted, where they stay for 30 days; with it off, the originals stay in Photos and the summary offers Replace originals now. The screen stays on; leaving the app stops the queue after the current video (on iOS 26, it may continue in the background, with the system's progress), and Stop after this one stops it safely. The queue is part of ClipLeve Pro.

In the video list, touch and hold a video and choose Send a smaller version. Pick the destination — For messages · up to 64 MB, For email · up to 25 MB or Custom size — and, if you like, turn on Send just a clip. If the whole video can't fit, the app tells you how long the clip can be. Then tap Prepare and send: ClipLeve prepares the version and opens the iPhone share sheet so you can pick a messaging or email app. The file is deleted when the share sheet closes. Nothing is saved to Photos, the original doesn't change and the free smaller copy is not used. This feature is part of ClipLeve Pro.

A thumbnail in Photos does not mean the full video is already on the iPhone. When the original is stored only in iCloud, ClipLeve offers a Download from iCloud and continue button; the download only starts after you tap it, and its progress appears on screen. The download uses internet data and temporary storage; it may use cellular data depending on your iPhone settings. The original stays in Photos and in iCloud.

In this version, ClipLeve supports videos up to 30 minutes and 10 GB, up to 4K and 120 frames per second, in H.264 or HEVC (MOV or MP4), including HLG HDR and Dolby Vision 8.4. Videos edited in Photos and time-lapse are supported: for an edited video, the smaller copy keeps the edit, as you see it in Photos, and the comparison warns that moving the original also moves the unedited version. Cinematic mode, slow motion and spatial videos are not supported. The app explains why and does not offer a purchase for an incompatible video.

The file is already well compressed. You can try Much smaller or, to send it in a message, use Send a smaller version. A smaller copy can only be saved when it is at least 5% and 5 MB smaller. This result does not use the free version and nothing is saved; the original stays in Photos.

Compression can reduce detail. Keep the original and try the Nearly identical size. If the smaller copy does not meet your needs, tap Discard (nothing changes in Photos) or keep both videos.

You can close the video screen and use the rest of ClipLeve while it works. On iOS 26, a long job may continue in the background, with the system's progress. On earlier iOS versions, leaving the app interrupts processing, and locking the iPhone may interrupt it on any version. If that happens, just start again; the queue stops after the current video. The original doesn't change.

On the result screen, Replace the original saves the smaller copy, checks it in Photos by hash and only then asks for your iPhone's confirmation to move the original to Recently Deleted, where it stays for 30 days. If you chose Keep both, tap Compare both later, check I compared them and want to move this original to Recently Deleted and tap Move original to Recently Deleted; the app checks both files again and your iPhone asks for confirmation. In the queue, Replace originals when done uses a single confirmation for all of them. If any step fails, nothing is removed. With iCloud Photos, the removal may appear on your other devices and, in a shared library, affect the participants. Recently Deleted is not a backup.

Avoid further removals and open Photos > Collections > Recently Deleted, where items stay for 30 days. See Apple's guidance and your backups. Do not empty Recently Deleted. Write to us describing what happened and the status shown in Your smaller copies.

Eligible records and temporary files are removed from this iPhone. Your smaller copies stay in Photos, but the app loses its links to them. Your purchase and the free version record are kept. Jobs with a pending save must be confirmed first.

Plans are paid to Apple, and refunds are requested from Apple at reportaproblem.apple.com (Apple's instructions). We have no access to the payment and cannot issue refunds directly, but you can contact us at the email above to report the problem and get help. Canceling the subscription stops future charges but does not refund a period already charged: for that, ask Apple. This does not affect your rights under applicable consumer protection law, including Brazil's Consumer Protection Code.

Yes. The welcome screen shows a measured example and, on the Videos tab, Try with a sample video walks through the flow with a video included in the app. It does not represent your library, does not save to Photos and does not use the free smaller copy.