Is Disney Cruise safe to use?

Disney Cruise integrates 60 third-party SDKs spanning analytics, infrastructure, and media. It collects data linked to your identity including Purchases, Location, Contact Info, and User Content and 4 more categories. It does not include any advertising or attribution SDKs. Whether this is acceptable depends on your personal privacy preferences.

What permissions does Disney Cruise need?

Disney Cruise requests 10 iOS permissions: Camera, Microphone, Photo Library, Location (When In Use), Location (Always & When In Use), Face ID, Save to Photo Library, Bluetooth, Bluetooth Peripheral, and Local Network.

What data does Disney Cruise collect?

According to its App Store privacy label, Disney Cruise collects data linked to your identity including Purchases, Location, Contact Info, User Content, Identifiers, Usage Data, Diagnostics, and Other Data.

How many SDKs does Disney Cruise have?

Disney Cruise integrates 60 third-party SDKs. 11 for analytics, 8 for infrastructure, and 36 for other. None are for advertising or attribution.

Does Disney Cruise access your location?

Yes. Disney Cruise requests location access. The developer states: "This will allow us to ensure you’re connected to the DCL-GUEST Network so that you can enjoy all the features of this app while on board.".

Does Disney Cruise access your camera or microphone?

Disney Cruise requests access to both your camera and microphone. The developer says camera access is for "This app accesses your camera when you scan Assembly Location signs and when you elect to participate in certain interactive experiences". Microphone access is for "The Disney Cruise Line Navigator app needs to use your microphone in order to play games". These permissions are only active when you grant them in iOS Settings.

Does Disney Cruise run in the background?

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

What are some alternatives to Disney Cruise?

Other travel apps include Air Canada , Aeroméxico , Air France , Airalo , Airbnb , and Priority Pass+ . Each app takes a different approach to travel and varies in its data collection and SDK usage.

Travel · Privacy report

Disney Cruise Line Navigator

Free · ★4.7 · Disney

Is Disney Cruise safe?

It leans heavily on third-party trackers.

Our take. Disney Cruise is built with more third-party tracking code than 85% of the travel we have scanned.

Privacy footprint · vs 103 travelHeavy

Trackers from other companies11 · a lot

typical travel: 5

Data the app links to you8 types · some

typical travel: 5 · from its own privacy label

What it collects about you

Disney Cruise links 8 categories of your data to you.

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

PurchasesLocationContact InfoUser ContentIdentifiersUsage DataDiagnosticsOther Data

Who else is inside

It carries trackers from 2 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

🏢Messaging SDKMessaging

Push notification and messaging platform.

SDKs

How it compares

Where it sits among travel.

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 travel app. Disney Cruise sits to the right, carrying more third-party tracking than most.

The evidence

What it's built from.

All 60 SDKs in the app, grouped by what they are for. 11 are third-party trackers.

11analytics

49standard libraries

11 of the 60 are third-party trackers. The rest are the app's own code and standard open-source building blocks.

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Other third partiesanalytics

Adobe Analytics · Adobe Experience Platform · Adobe Identity · Adobe Lifecycle · Adobe Rules Engine · Adobe Services · New Relic · OneTrust Privacy/Consent

Messaging SDKMessaging

Braze · Braze Location · Braze UI

Standard libraries49 · 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 v5.43.0, 2026-04-05.

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 103 travel in our corpus. Trackers: median 5. Data linked to you: median 5.