Then it opens like an app — full screen, and it works with no signal at all. Takes ten seconds.
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Tap ShareAt the bottom of Safari (top on iPad). On iOS 26, tap ⋯ first.
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Scroll down, tap Add to Home ScreenLeave “Open as Web App” on.
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Tap Add, then open Mobile Vault from your Home ScreenYour projects come with it.
Share is down here
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Open this page in SafariTap ⋯ or the compass, then “Open in Safari” — apps like Instagram can’t add it to your Home Screen.
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Open your browser’s menu⋮ in Chrome
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Tap Add to Home Screen or Install app
Where do my photos go? They stay on this phone until you tap Sync — then into your Photos, and iCloud takes them to your Mac. Nothing goes up to the website.
Projects
Grab & Go · straight into
Straight in — no questions. Tap the orange button again to stop.
Just now
Grab & Go on — every photo goes to
Pair with your Mac
Point at the code on your Mac
Needed Tools › Home › Your phone. Only your project names come across — your pictures never go anywhere but your own Photos and your Mac.
Looking for the code…
Paired
Made a new project on your Mac? Scan again and it comes across.
Your projects
Pick a project
Named the same as on your Mac, it goes straight into that project there.
Keep for a project
To keep
ForTags
Sync
How it gets to your Mac
Tap Sync, then Save Images (or Save Video). They go into this phone’s Photos.
iCloud Photos takes them to your Mac — anywhere you’ve got signal.
On the Mac, press Sync in Needed Tools. Each goes into its project’s vault, with its tags, and into Needed Vault › its project in Photos.
Next to your Mac? You can pick it under AirDrop instead. Either way, nothing lands in the vault twice.
Synced
Now let iCloud take them
Opening Photos gives iCloud a nudge to send them up now. Then press Sync in Needed Tools on your Mac.
Needed Mobile Vault
How it works
Add photos and clips to a project — anywhere, with or without signal.
They wait on this phone until you tap Sync — it saves them to Photos, and iCloud takes them to your Mac.
On the Mac: Sync in Needed Tools. Each lands in its project, once.