One entrance. Many vaults.

What “hidden” means here

On the lock screen you draw a pattern or type a passphrase. If it matches a vault, that vault opens. If it does not, you stay locked. There is no list of vaults, no vault names and no master password that opens everything, so someone looking at your phone cannot tell from Cipher's lock screen whether you have one vault or several.

Independent by construction

Each vault has its own random key, its own recovery phrase and its own files. Opening one does not open another. While the trial or Lifetime Pro is active you can make as many vaults as your iPhone has room for.

What it is not

• It does not defeat someone who can watch you unlock your phone and your vaults.
• It is not protection against being forced to unlock. No such feature is offered, and we do not claim one.
• Unlock attempts are limited on the device so guessing is slow, but a weak pattern or short passphrase is still weaker than a long one.

Compare this with the built-in Hidden album in Photos, which is a different kind of protection.