Crossing a border with sensitive files on your iPhone?
Keep passport scans, IDs, legal documents, recovery keys, and confidential notes in a local Secure Enclave-backed vault instead of Photos, Notes, iCloud Drive, or email.
Before travel, sensitive files tend to be everywhere.
Most people clean up apps and notifications but forget the files scattered across their phone.
Passport scans in Photos
Legal PDFs in Files or email
Recovery keys in screenshots
Sensitive notes in cloud-synced apps
Confidential recordings or images in the camera roll
A simple pre-travel workflow
Step 1
Search your phone for passport, license, SSN, tax, seed, recovery, legal, contract, client.
Step 2
Delete files you do not need to carry.
Step 3
Move required files into UltraLocked.
Step 4
Keep sensitive files out of cloud-synced default apps.
Step 5
Configure duress or self-destruct workflows if coercive access is part of your threat model.
Travel workflows should be paired with realistic legal and operational advice for the places you cross. UltraLocked reduces exposure from files that remain on the phone; it does not decide what you are legally required to disclose.
Related reading: Crossing Lines travel guide and duress workflows for border risk.
Prepare your travel vault
Move the files you must carry into a local vault before you travel, and keep unnecessary sensitive material off the phone.
