Is FOX Sports safe to use?

FOX Sports integrates 36 third-party SDKs spanning analytics, infrastructure, and advertising. Its App Store privacy label declares cross-app tracking via Contact Info, Identifiers, and Usage Data. It collects data linked to your identity including Purchases, Location, Contact Info, and User Content and 6 more categories. It includes 4 advertising or attribution SDKs. Whether this is acceptable depends on your personal privacy preferences.

What permissions does FOX Sports need?

FOX Sports requests 8 iOS permissions: App Tracking Transparency, Camera, Microphone, Location (When In Use), Save to Photo Library, Bluetooth, Bluetooth Peripheral, and Local Network.

What data does FOX Sports collect?

According to its App Store privacy label, FOX Sports declares cross-app tracking via Contact Info, Identifiers, and Usage Data. It collects data linked to your identity including Purchases, Location, Contact Info, User Content, Search History, Browsing History, Identifiers, Usage Data, Diagnostics, and Other Data.

How many SDKs does FOX Sports have?

FOX Sports integrates 36 third-party SDKs. 4 for advertising, 9 for analytics, 5 for infrastructure, and 16 for other.

Does FOX Sports use Google SDKs?

Yes. FOX Sports includes 2 Google or Firebase SDKs: Google Cast and Google Interactive Media Ads (IMA). These are primarily used for advertising.

Does FOX Sports use App Tracking Transparency?

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

Does FOX Sports access your location?

Yes. FOX Sports requests location access. The developer states: "Your location determines nearby teams and available sports content. FOX Sports will not store your location.".

Does FOX Sports access your camera or microphone?

FOX Sports requests access to both your camera and microphone. The developer says camera access is for "FOX Sports uses microphone access to listen for ultrasonic tokens when pairing with nearby Cast devices". Microphone access is for "FOX Sports uses the microphone to process your speech for interactive conversations with the AI voice experience". These permissions are only active when you grant them in iOS Settings.

Does FOX Sports run in the background?

Yes. FOX Sports registers 2 background modes, which means it can perform certain tasks when you're not actively using it.

What are some alternatives to FOX Sports?

Other sports apps include 18Birdies , 365Scores , Action , Alt , Arccos , and MLB . Each app takes a different approach to sports and varies in its data collection and SDK usage.

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Is FOX Sports safe?

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

Our take. FOX Sports carries 13 third-party trackers and its own label declares it links 10 categories of your data to you. It collects a lot itself, and shares a lot with outside companies.

Privacy footprint · vs 117 sportsHeavy

Trackers from other companies13 · a lot

typical sports: 5

Data the app links to you10 types · a lot

typical sports: 4 · from its own privacy label

What it collects about you

FOX Sports links 10 categories of your data to you.

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

PurchasesLocationContact InfoUser ContentSearch HistoryBrowsing HistoryIdentifiersUsage DataDiagnosticsOther Data

Who else is inside

It carries trackers from 4 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

🇺🇸AmplitudeAnalytics

Product analytics, built to record detailed behaviour inside the app.

SDK

🇺🇸GoogleAnalytics

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

SDK

🏢Analytics SDKAnalytics

A product analytics platform.

SDK

How it compares

Where it sits among sports.

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 sport app. FOX Sports 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 36 SDKs in the app, grouped by what they are for. 13 are third-party trackers.

4advertising

9analytics

23standard libraries

13 of the 36 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

Amazon Publisher Services (DTB) · Google Interactive Media Ads (IMA) · Open Measurement (Fox) · Taboola · Adobe Analytics · Adobe Experience Platform · Adobe Identity · Adobe Rules Engine · Adobe Services · Mux Analytics

AmplitudeAnalytics · USA

Amplitude

GoogleAnalytics · USA

Google Analytics Connector

Analytics SDKAnalytics

Segment

Standard libraries23 · 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 v5.149, 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 117 sports in our corpus. Trackers: median 5. Data linked to you: median 4.