Tips: Encrypt
Enhanced Security starts protecting your captures the moment they’re taken. These are the things worth knowing before and after you turn it on.
Turning it on
Section titled “Turning it on”- Turn it on at any time. Enabling Enhanced Security encrypts each item one by one. The processing time depends on how large your captures (images and videos) are, but in general it’s a fairly fast operation.
- The recovery code belongs in your password manager. There’s no account and no cloud backup, so if your Mac’s keychain is ever lost, that recovery code is the only way back into your own library. Write it down somewhere that isn’t the Mac it protects.
- Periodic recovery-code checks. Sealshot occasionally prompts you to validate your recovery code, so you find out it’s misplaced before you need it.
What it actually covers
Section titled “What it actually covers”- It’s not just the images. Captures and recordings are AES-256-GCM encrypted on disk — and so are the search index, the undo history, and the extracted OCR text. Those are exactly the places a readable copy of your content would otherwise sit in the clear. See what it protects.
- Nobody can quietly switch it off. The Privacy & Security settings themselves require authentication to open, so an unlocked Mac left alone isn’t a way in.
Recovery code & key
Section titled “Recovery code & key”- View or update recovery code. Recovery code → View… or Generate New… in Settings → Privacy & Security; a new code retires the old one.
- You can rotate the key itself. Replace encryption key changes the underlying encryption key, not just the code that recovers it.
Others
Section titled “Others”- Auto-lock. Sealshot can lock the library on its own when you step away — capturing still works while locked, so you never miss a shot.