Your shared moments, easier to find
Review, connect, and exchange eligible photos with friends.
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Face setup
A little setup
Sign in, choose photo access, and set up your face reference with center, left, and right views. This gives connected friends’ phones a reference to help find photos of you.
How your sensitive numerical face reference is stored and shared
People, not endless scrolling
Viola scans your library on your phone and groups likely photos by person, with the newest photos first. Open Photos and Together to review a group, and correct a match when something looks wrong.
A connection comes first
Invite the right person from their photo group. They join Viola and send you a connection request. Once you accept, eligible automatic sharing can begin. An invitation alone does not connect you.
Bring the moments home
Eligible matching photos can be shared automatically after connection, or you can choose photos manually. Photos are encrypted before transfer. My Photos shows To Download, Received, and Sent, so you can see what arrived or needs attention.
The little things that bring photos back
Find your people, keep the final say, and get the right photos back where they belong.
People in Photos
Browse people in your photo library, with their newest photos first. Open Photos or Together to find the moments you share.
Review & correct
Review suggestions, move a photo, or correct a group. You’re not stuck with a match that looks wrong.
Encrypted transfer
Photos are encrypted on the sender’s phone before transfer and decrypted on the recipient’s phone.
Connected friends
Invite a friend, receive their request, and accept the connection before eligible automatic sharing begins.
Automatic or handpicked
Let eligible matching photos send automatically after connection, or handpick photos from Gallery.
AutomaticEligible matches, after connection
HandpickedPhotos you choose from Gallery
My Photos
See To Download, Received, and Sent in one place. Save to your phone’s Gallery when enabled and permitted.
Automatic downloads
Incoming photos can download and decrypt automatically when your phone can connect. If a transfer waits or fails, check To Download and retry.
Background transfers
Viola can send and receive photos without staying open on screen, when iOS or Android allows background work. Timing isn’t guaranteed.
A familiar face is a better starting point
Viola groups photos by person. Review the matches, connect with your friends, and share the moments you took of one another.
Privacy & control
What stays on your phone, what goes online, and the choices you have. Here’s how Viola handles your data.
Photo-library scanning and face analysis happen on your device.
Review suggestions and correct mistakes. Ambiguous matches may be withheld; no automated check is perfect.
Your numerical face reference is stored in Firestore so connected friends’ devices can use it for matching.
Account and connection records, transfer metadata, and encrypted photo files also pass through online services.
A face reference is sensitive biometric data. It is a numerical reference, not a face photograph.
Manage your face data, disconnect, or request account deletion. Optional profile fields are shared only when you choose.
Some actions need a connection and may need a retry.
Different plans. The same people.
A weekend away. A birthday together. The photos are spread across your phones. Viola helps you find and share them with connected friends.
See how Viola worksFor friends who take photos of one another.
A little clarity
From your first scan to a photo that’s still waiting. Here’s what to know.
Still need a hand?[email protected]Viola needs permission to look for faces and organize matching photos in your phone library. Photo scanning and face analysis run on your device. You control the library access granted through your phone settings.
The center, left, and right views create a numerical face reference that helps Viola recognize the same person from different angles. The reference is not a face photograph, but it is sensitive biometric data. A numerical enrolled reference is stored online so connected friends’ devices can access it for matching.
Check photo permission, review the selected scan range or albums, and resume any interrupted scan. Some faces may not be usable because of angle, size, blur, or other quality limits. A later scan can discover more photos.
Open the person group and use the review and correction tools. You can confirm suggestions, move or regroup mistakes, hide a group, and correct who appears in a photo. Matching is probabilistic, so review matters.
A transfer may be waiting for a connection, network access, the other phone, or an operating-system opportunity to continue. To Download means an encrypted photo is available but has not yet been saved on this phone. Viola provides retry and attention states when work cannot finish.
An invitation brings the person into Viola; it does not create a connection by itself. Open the invitation, join or sign in, grant photo access, and complete face setup. Send a connection request to the friend who invited you. They accept before connection-controlled sharing begins. If you install the app first, you may need to return to the original invitation.
After a friend is connected and linked to the correct person group, Viola can automatically send eligible confident matches. You can also select and send photos manually from Gallery. Safety checks, permissions, connection state, and photo availability can affect both paths.
iOS decides when background work can run, so timing is not guaranteed. Viola can check, resume, or retry when iOS allows it. Optional Camera-close Shortcuts automation and optional significant-location-change checks create extra opportunities only after you configure and permit them. Force-quitting can prevent normal background opportunities.
Android can continue or schedule some work when the operating system permits it. Battery optimization, vendor power controls, connectivity, and force-stopping the app can delay or stop work. Reopen Viola, check any shown error, and use Resume or Retry when needed.
Saving a received photo to your phone’s Gallery or Photos library is separate from keeping it inside Viola. Enable Gallery saving and grant the operating-system permission when asked. A copy saved outside Viola remains under your control.
For a recent send, recall can stop later downloads and ask Viola to remove its received copy when the recipient reconnects. Recall is available for up to 24 hours after sending. It cannot erase screenshots, Gallery copies, or files saved elsewhere.
Local scan results, device-held keys, downloaded files, and settings may not all survive reinstalling. You may need to sign in, restore permissions, enroll again, and rescan. Some transfers encrypted for an earlier device identity may need to be resent.
Open a connected friend’s profile to disconnect; this stops future automatic sharing but does not remove copies already saved on either phone. Account and face-data controls are available in Settings. If an action fails, retry while online or contact support.
