Is Disney+ safe to use?

Disney+ integrates 23 third-party SDKs spanning analytics, media, and crash-reporting. Its App Store privacy label declares cross-app tracking via Usage Data. It collects data linked to your identity including Purchases, Location, Contact Info, and Search History and 2 more categories. It includes 1 advertising or attribution SDK. Whether this is acceptable depends on your personal privacy preferences.

What permissions does Disney+ need?

Disney+ requests 6 iOS permissions: App Tracking Transparency, Microphone, Location (When In Use), Location (Always), Bluetooth Peripheral, and Local Network.

What data does Disney+ collect?

According to its App Store privacy label, Disney+ declares cross-app tracking via Usage Data. It collects data linked to your identity including Purchases, Location, Contact Info, Search History, Identifiers, and Usage Data. It collects Diagnostics not linked to your identity.

How many SDKs does Disney+ have?

Disney+ integrates 23 third-party SDKs. 1 for advertising, 8 for analytics, 1 for crash reporting, 1 for infrastructure, and 10 for other.

Does Disney+ use Google SDKs?

Yes. Disney+ includes 1 Google or Firebase SDK: Google Cast. These are used for cloud infrastructure and services, not advertising.

Does Disney+ use App Tracking Transparency?

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

Does Disney+ access your location?

Yes. Disney+ requests location access. The developer states: "Dominguez requires the use of location".

Does Disney+ access your camera or microphone?

Disney+ requests access to your microphone. The developer says this is for "Dominguez requires the use of the microphone to connect the Chromecast device". These permissions are only active when you grant them in iOS Settings.

Does Disney+ run in the background?

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

What are some alternatives to Disney+?

Other entertainment apps include NetShort , Prime Video , AMC Theatres , AXS , Scoopz , and CastSnap . Each app takes a different approach to entertainment and varies in its data collection and SDK usage.

Entertainment · Privacy report

Disney+

Free · ★4.6 · Disney

Is Disney+ safe?

It leans heavily on third-party trackers.

Our take. Disney+ is built with more third-party tracking code than 77% of the entertainment we have scanned.

Privacy footprint · vs 81 entertainmentHeavy

Trackers from other companies9 · a lot

typical entertainment: 6

Data the app links to you6 types · some

typical entertainment: 5 · from its own privacy label

What it collects about you

Disney+ links 6 categories of your data to you.

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

PurchasesLocationContact InfoSearch HistoryIdentifiersUsage 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.

🏢Other third partiesanalytics

A third-party SDK.

SDKs

🏢Monitoring SDKAnalytics

Crash and performance monitoring.

SDKs

🏢Messaging SDKMessaging

Push notification and messaging platform.

SDKs

How it compares

Where it sits among entertainment.

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 entertainment app. Disney+ 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 23 SDKs in the app, grouped by what they are for. 9 are third-party trackers.

1advertising

8analytics

1crash reporting

13standard libraries

9 of the 23 are third-party trackers. The rest are the app's own code and standard open-source building blocks.

Show the full SDK list

Other third partiesanalytics

OneTrust Privacy/Consent · Conviva · Open Measurement (Disney)

Monitoring SDKAnalytics

Datadog Internal · Datadog · Datadog RUM

Messaging SDKMessaging

Braze · Braze UI

Standard libraries13 · 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 v5.5.0, 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 81 entertainment in our corpus. Trackers: median 6. Data linked to you: median 5.