Is PUBG MOBILE safe to use?

PUBG MOBILE integrates 38 third-party SDKs spanning infrastructure, media, and attribution. Its App Store privacy label declares cross-app tracking via User Content. It collects data linked to your identity including Contact Info, User Content, and Identifiers. It includes 2 advertising or attribution SDKs. Whether this is acceptable depends on your personal privacy preferences.

What permissions does PUBG MOBILE need?

PUBG MOBILE requests 9 iOS permissions: App Tracking Transparency, Camera, Microphone, Photo Library, Location (When In Use), Calendars, Save to Photo Library, Reminders, and Local Network.

What data does PUBG MOBILE collect?

According to its App Store privacy label, PUBG MOBILE declares cross-app tracking via User Content. It collects data linked to your identity including Contact Info, User Content, and Identifiers. It collects Usage Data and Diagnostics not linked to your identity.

How many SDKs does PUBG MOBILE have?

PUBG MOBILE integrates 38 third-party SDKs. 2 for attribution, 2 for social integration, 7 for infrastructure, and 24 for other. None are for analytics.

Does PUBG MOBILE use App Tracking Transparency?

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

Does PUBG MOBILE access your location?

Yes. PUBG MOBILE requests location access. The developer states: "Allow now to use Global Positioning System. you can turn off this permission at any time in the device settings.".

Does PUBG MOBILE access your camera or microphone?

PUBG MOBILE requests access to both your camera and microphone. The developer says camera access is for "App needs your consent to access the camera". Microphone access is for "Allow now to use voice chat. You can also change permissions under your device settings later". These permissions are only active when you grant them in iOS Settings.

Does PUBG MOBILE run in the background?

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

What are some alternatives to PUBG MOBILE?

Other games apps include 8 Ball Pool , Among Us , Arrows GO! , Marble Sort! , Baseball Hits , and Brain Test . Each app takes a different approach to games and varies in its data collection and SDK usage.

Games · Privacy report

PUBG MOBILE

Free · ★4.3 · Tencent Mobile International Limited

Is PUBG MOBILE safe?

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

Our take. PUBG MOBILE carries 2 third-party trackers and its own label declares it links 3 categories of your data to you. It collects a lot itself, and shares a lot with outside companies.

Privacy footprint · vs 82 gamesModerate

Trackers from other companies2 · some

typical games: 8

Data the app links to you3 types · some

typical games: 5 · from its own privacy label

What it collects about you

PUBG MOBILE links 3 categories of your data to you.

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

Contact InfoUser ContentIdentifiers

Who else is inside

It carries trackers from 1 company.

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.

🇩🇪AdjustAttribution · Germany

Marketing attribution, built to tie installs and in app events back to ad campaigns.

SDKs

How it compares

Where it sits among games.

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 game app. PUBG MOBILE sits to the lower left, lighter than most.

Other signals

Two more flags.

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.

It sends analytics to a company in Germany

Adjust is a Germany company. Its analytics SDK is built into the app.

The evidence

What it's built from.

All 38 SDKs in the app, grouped by what they are for. 2 are third-party trackers.

2attribution

36standard libraries

2 of the 38 are third-party trackers. The rest are the app's own code and standard open-source building blocks.

Show the full SDK list

AdjustAttribution · Germany

Adjust · Adjust Signature

Standard libraries36 · 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 v4.3.0, 2026-04-04.

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 82 games in our corpus. Trackers: median 8. Data linked to you: median 5.