Is Drive Weather safe to use?

Drive Weather integrates 12 third-party SDKs spanning advertising, infrastructure, and analytics. Its App Store privacy label declares cross-app tracking via Usage Data. However, it reports that no collected data is linked to your identity. It includes 5 advertising or attribution SDKs. Whether this is acceptable depends on your personal privacy preferences.

What permissions does Drive Weather need?

Drive Weather requests 4 iOS permissions: App Tracking Transparency, Location (When In Use), Location (Always), and Location (Always & When In Use).

What data does Drive Weather collect?

According to its App Store privacy label, Drive Weather declares cross-app tracking via Usage Data. It collects Location, Search History, Identifiers, Usage Data, Diagnostics, and Other Data not linked to your identity.

How many SDKs does Drive Weather have?

Drive Weather integrates 12 third-party SDKs. 5 for advertising, 2 for analytics, 1 for social integration, 3 for infrastructure, and 1 for other.

Does Drive Weather use Facebook tracking?

Yes. Drive Weather includes 3 Facebook SDKs: Facebook AEM, Facebook SDK, and Facebook Share. These are used for ad measurement, attribution, and integration with Facebook's advertising platform (developers.facebook.com).

Does Drive Weather use Google SDKs?

Yes. Drive Weather includes 5 Google or Firebase SDKs: Google Ads Conversion, Google AdMob, Firebase Analytics, Google App Measurement, and GooglePlacesAPI. These are used for ads, analytics, and cloud services.

Does Drive Weather use App Tracking Transparency?

Yes. Drive Weather requests the App Tracking Transparency permission, which means it asks for your consent to track your activity across other companies' apps and websites.

Does Drive Weather access your location?

Yes. Drive Weather requests location access. The developer states: "To find location for the start point of a route.".

Does Drive Weather run in the background?

Yes. Drive Weather registers 3 background modes, which means it can perform certain tasks when you're not actively using it.

What are some alternatives to Drive Weather?

Other weather apps include 13abc Weather , 4WarnMe , AirVisual , Alpenglow , Acme Weather , and DroneForecast . Each app takes a different approach to weather and varies in its data collection and SDK usage.

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Is Drive Weather safe?

It collects a lot of your data, and shares it with trackers.

Our take. Drive Weather carries 7 third-party trackers and its own label declares it links 0 categories of your data to you. It collects a lot itself, and shares a lot with outside companies.

Privacy footprint · vs 106 weatherModerate

Trackers from other companies7 · some

typical weather: 5

Data the app links to you0 types · some

typical weather: 1 · from its own privacy label

What it collects about you

Drive Weather links 0 categories of your data to you.

From the developer's own App Store privacy label. These are the kinds of data Drive Weather ties to your identity, and it also declares it shares data to track you across other apps.

Who else is inside

It carries trackers from 3 companies.

Third-party SDKs found in the app, matched to the company that publishes each. Present in the code; we do not observe what they transmit.

🏢Other third partiesadvertising

A third-party SDK.

SDKs

🇺🇸MetaAdvertising

Facebook advertising SDKs, built to link app activity to Facebook and Instagram ad profiles.

SDKs

🇺🇸GoogleAnalytics

Firebase, AdMob and Google analytics SDKs, built to record how you use the app and serve ads.

SDKs

How it compares

Where it sits among weather.

Every one of these apps we have scanned, on the two measures above: third-party trackers it carries (across) and data it links to you on its own label (up). Toward the top right is more invasive.

Each dot is one weather app. Drive Weather sits to the right, carrying more third-party tracking than most.

Other signals

One more flag.

Each is a fact read straight from the app. The same checks run on every app we scan. Only the ones that apply here are shown.

It declares cross-app tracking

Its own App Store label says it tracks you across other companies apps and websites using your advertising identifier.

The evidence

What it's built from.

All 12 SDKs in the app, grouped by what they are for. 7 are third-party trackers.

5advertising

2analytics

5standard libraries

7 of the 12 are third-party trackers. The rest are the app's own code and standard open-source building blocks.

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Other third partiesadvertising

Google Ads Conversion · Google UMP (Consent) · Google App Measurement

MetaAdvertising · USA

Facebook AEM · Facebook SDK

GoogleAnalytics · USA

Google AdMob · Firebase Analytics

Standard libraries5 · on-device

The app's own code plus open-source interface, storage and networking libraries.

How we know this

Counterspy downloads the app from the App Store and statically analyzes its compiled binary. Embedded SDKs are matched against a signature database and resolved to the company that operates each. We also read the developer's App Store privacy label, which lists the data the app says it collects and links to you. We do not run the app or intercept its traffic, so we report capabilities present in the code and the developer's own disclosures, not proven transmission. We assess privacy and data collection, not malware, security flaws, or developer intent. Reports are automated and never edited for payment. Scan v12.1.1, 2026-04-01.

Third-party trackers are advertising, analytics and attribution SDKs detected by static signature matching. Presence shows a capability is compiled in, not that it ran or transmitted data.
"Data the app links to you" is the count of data categories the developer declares as Data Linked To You in its App Store privacy label. Labels are self-reported and not verified by Apple.
Comparison across the 106 weather in our corpus. Trackers: median 5. Data linked to you: median 1.