# Phone Security: Privacy Shield — user reviews > 43 indexed App Store user reviews of Phone Security by Magic Snail, rated 4.60/5 from 3,246 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/phone-security-privacy-shield/id6737263668/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/phone-security-privacy-shield/id6737263668.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 2,407 · 4★ 542 · 3★ 165 · 2★ 50 · 1★ 82 ## What do users think of Phone Security? Overall sentiment: mixed **Pros** - 👍 Easy to use - 🚀 Fast performance - 💡 Helpful in cleaning up phone - 🔒 Protects privacy **Cons** - 🐛 App crashes frequently - 🔋 High battery consumption - 💰 Misleading about free trial **Commonly reported bugs** - App gets stuck at 68% during scan - Repeated pop-ups that can't be closed **Most requested features** - Dark mode option - More detailed analytics ## Newest reviews (14 of 43) ### 2/5 — Not as dappy as the nickname they gave me!! *2026-06-29, version 1.0.17* @RTB You get a three day free trial then start paying £9.99 a month. Only downloading the app is free, as is most of the app cleaners!! ### 4/5 — How to cancel *2026-03-23, version 1.0.14* The app worked well but I can’t cancel. Too expensive ### 4/5 — Review phone security ratings *2026-03-10, version 1.0.14* I want to give five stars ### 4/5 — Unique *2026-03-06, version 1.0.14* Awesome ### 5/5 — Becky *2026-03-02, version 1.0.14* This app freed up so much on my phone and I still kept all of my best pictures. I love this app. Thanks! ### 5/5 — Stronghold *2026-02-22, version 1.0.14* Sealing all boxes as indicated by the concerns of God Almoghty ### 5/5 — Superstar *2026-02-14, version 1.0.14* 5star ### 3/5 — William Wagner *2026-02-06, version 1.0.14* The photos you continue to shine in my face are none of mine.Daddy wags is my Naval nickname ### 5/5 — RTB *2026-01-27, version 1.0.14* Is this really free or will I be asked to pay further down the line ? ### 4/5 — Phone cleaner *2026-01-24, version 1.0.14* It was very easy to use ### 3/5 — Cheo1955 *2026-01-11, version 1.0.14* Great ### 5/5 — So nice for you to provide free service to senior citizens *2025-12-15* Wonderful company ### 5/5 — Amazing app *2025-10-26* Cleans my phone up for free ### 4/5 — PSPS *2025-09-05, version 1.0.11* Love Clean Up ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — False advertising, free to download but you have to subscribe to use *2026-08-04, version 1.0.18* Deliberately misleading ### 1/5 — I like the choices and most explanations. *2026-03-27, version 1.0.14* The explanations are very good. I would, however , like a confirmation before I move on. I am not a young member of the tech generation ( I wish I was). ### 1/5 — One star and that is too much !! *2026-03-09, version 1.0.14* Why lie to the people and say it’s free , I don’t see nothing free about this . All these phone cleaning apps say it’s free just ao we download it to find out you need to pay , but as fast as I downloaded it , is just as fast to delete it ,be honest about it and stop lying to the people !! ### 1/5 — Why say it’s free when it’s not *2026-03-03, version 1.0.14* Download it then you have to pay all these phones cleaners are the same 😡 ### 1/5 — Get your security app of my damn phone if I wanted it I would have signed up for it and it’s really *2026-02-19* Pissing me off and I will be discussing this with Apple ### 1/5 — Waste of time! *2025-12-21, version 1.0.13* When I tapped “One-Tap Clean” the scanning got stuck on 93 percent so I tried again and the same thing happened so I tapped “Videos Cleanup” and the duplicate videos were completely different videos! Do not Download this app! I am very disappointed! ### 1/5 — Terrible *2025-09-04* App is garbage I did the free trial and ran it at least 15 to 20 times never made it past 68% was fast till it hit there and never would move and didn’t delete anything waste of time ### 1/5 — Their rules *2025-08-18, version 1.0.11* Since when does a phone manufacturer tell you the rules to using their phone providing your not doing anything illegal ### 1/5 — Review *2025-03-18, version 1.0.11* Lie says free but it’s not. I would call this false advertising. ### 1/5 — HOAX *2025-03-10, version 1.0.11* Double HOAX ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Fantastic *2026-08-18, version 1.0.18* Fantastic ### 5/5 — Good Ap *2026-06-27, version 1.0.17* Doing good so far ### 5/5 — Gives me space *2026-06-14, version 1.0.15* This took only a short time to get rid of lots of photos that I had meaning to sort out for yonks. ### 5/5 — FWP *2026-05-24* All good ### 5/5 — Quick & Easy *2026-04-09* It’s very easy to use this cleaning app. It brings up all of the photos that you may want to delete, such as duplicates or blurry one, but allows you to view them so you have the option of keeping them. After review, you just press “Delete” & they are erased within seconds. ### 5/5 — Awesome job *2026-04-03, version 1.0.14* love it ### 5/5 — Security *2026-03-30, version 1.0.14* Easy to use ### 5/5 — Phone Security *2026-03-28, version 1.0.14* I love it ### 5/5 — Phone Security *2026-03-10* It works just like it said it would an all was a one bottom ### 5/5 — Amazing *2026-03-07, version 1.0.14* This app --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-09-10.*