Is Camera Connect safe to use?

Camera Connect integrates 8 third-party SDKs spanning advertising and analytics. It collects data linked to your identity including Identifiers and Usage Data. It includes 3 advertising or attribution SDKs. Whether this is acceptable depends on your personal privacy preferences.

What permissions does Camera Connect need?

Camera Connect requests 6 iOS permissions: Photo Library, Location (When In Use), Location (Always & When In Use), Bluetooth, Bluetooth Peripheral, and Local Network.

What data does Camera Connect collect?

According to its App Store privacy label, Camera Connect collects data linked to your identity including Identifiers and Usage Data.

How many SDKs does Camera Connect have?

Camera Connect integrates 8 third-party SDKs. 3 for advertising, 2 for analytics, and 3 for other.

Does Camera Connect use Facebook tracking?

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

Does Camera Connect use Google SDKs?

Yes. Camera Connect includes 2 Google or Firebase SDKs: Firebase Analytics and Google App Measurement. These are primarily used for analytics and cloud services.

Does Camera Connect access your location?

Yes. Camera Connect requests location access. The developer states: "To add location information to images shot using the camera, let the app use location information.".

Does Camera Connect run in the background?

Yes. Camera Connect registers 4 background modes, which means it can perform certain tasks when you're not actively using it.

What are some alternatives to Camera Connect?

Other photo & video apps include ARTA , AI Catch , Airbrush , Body Tune Editor , OldRoll , and Edits . Each app takes a different approach to photo & video and varies in its data collection and SDK usage.

Photo & Video · Privacy report

Canon Camera Connect

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Is Camera Connect safe?

It leans heavily on third-party trackers.

Our take. Camera Connect is built with more third-party tracking code than 51% of the photo & video we have scanned.

Privacy footprint · vs 102 photo & videoModerate

Trackers from other companies5 · some

typical photo & video: 4

Data the app links to you2 types · little

typical photo & video: 2 · from its own privacy label

What it collects about you

Camera Connect links 2 categories of your data to you.

From the developer's own App Store privacy label. These are the kinds of data Camera Connect ties to your identity.

IdentifiersUsage Data

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.

🇺🇸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.

SDK

🏢Other third partiesanalytics

A third-party SDK.

SDK

How it compares

Where it sits among photo & video.

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 photo & video app. Camera Connect sits to the right, carrying more third-party tracking than most.

The evidence

What it's built from.

All 8 SDKs in the app, grouped by what they are for. 5 are third-party trackers.

3advertising

2analytics

3standard libraries

5 of the 8 are third-party trackers. The rest are the app's own code and standard open-source building blocks.

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MetaAdvertising · USA

Facebook AEM · Facebook SDK · Facebook Login

GoogleAnalytics · USA

Firebase Analytics

Other third partiesanalytics

Google App Measurement

Standard libraries3 · 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 v3.5.11, 2026-04-03.

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 102 photo & video in our corpus. Trackers: median 4. Data linked to you: median 2.