Cooperation without exposure
Refusing to unlock your phone can mean detention or refused entry. Sealby removes the dilemma. Comply, open a harmless vault, and the rest stays out of sight, with no stored list or count.
Use case
Cross the border. Keep your life private.
In many countries, border officers can search your phone, and you can be required to unlock it. Sealby is built for exactly this moment. Open a harmless vault and cooperate fully. Nothing records that another vault exists.
How do I protect my phone’s data at a border crossing?
Travel light: remove what you don’t need, and keep what you do need in a hidden encrypted vault. With Sealby, unlocking your phone and even opening a vault reveals only that vault. The number of vaults is never stored, so there is nothing more to demand.
No count, no list, nothing stored
One vault or ten, there is no stored list or count, only identical encrypted blocks.
Travel empty, restore later
With Premium backup, you can even travel with a clean install and restore your vault from its encrypted backup when you arrive, using its recovery phrase.
Common questions
Can border agents tell I’m using a hidden-vault app?
They can see the Sealby app, and you can open a real, harmless vault for them. There is no count and no index of any other vault, and vaults you haven’t opened are stored as identical encrypted blocks.
Is it legal to use encryption when traveling?
In most countries, yes. Encryption is standard on every modern phone. Rules on unlocking differ by country, which is exactly why Sealby is designed so that complying with an unlock request doesn’t expose everything you own. This isn’t legal advice; check the rules for your route.
Related: How deniability works · Can you be forced to unlock your phone? · Protecting sources
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