Is Norton 360 safe to use?

Norton 360 integrates 89 third-party SDKs spanning analytics, infrastructure, and media. Its App Store privacy label declares cross-app tracking via Identifiers and Usage Data. It collects data linked to your identity including Contact Info and Identifiers. It includes 4 advertising or attribution SDKs. Whether this is acceptable depends on your personal privacy preferences.

What permissions does Norton 360 need?

Norton 360 requests 10 iOS permissions: App Tracking Transparency, Camera, Contacts, Photo Library, Location (When In Use), Location (Always), Location (Always & When In Use), Calendars, Face ID, and Siri.

What data does Norton 360 collect?

According to its App Store privacy label, Norton 360 declares cross-app tracking via Identifiers and Usage Data. It collects data linked to your identity including Contact Info and Identifiers. It collects User Content, Usage Data, and Diagnostics not linked to your identity.

How many SDKs does Norton 360 have?

Norton 360 integrates 89 third-party SDKs. 3 for advertising, 1 for attribution, 6 for analytics, 4 for infrastructure, and 69 for other.

Does Norton 360 use Facebook tracking?

Yes. Norton 360 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 Norton 360 use Google SDKs?

Yes. Norton 360 includes 3 Google or Firebase SDKs: FirebaseAnalyticsCollectorKit, FirebaseDynamicWrapper, and FirebaseRemoteConfigKit. These are primarily used for analytics and cloud services.

Does Norton 360 use App Tracking Transparency?

Yes. Norton 360 requests the App Tracking Transparency permission, which means it asks for your consent to track your activity across other companies' apps and websites.

Does Norton 360 access your location?

Yes. Norton 360 requests location access. The developer states: "This app needs access to location.".

Does Norton 360 access your camera?

Norton 360 requests access to your camera. The developer says this is for "This app requires access to camera". These permissions are only active when you grant them in iOS Settings.

Does Norton 360 access your contacts?

Yes. Norton 360 requests access to your contacts. The developer states: "This app needs access to contacts.".

Does Norton 360 run in the background?

Yes. Norton 360 registers 4 background modes, which means it can perform certain tasks when you're not actively using it.

What are some alternatives to Norton 360?

Other utilities apps include 1.1.1.1 , InstaWrite AI , AI Identifier , ExtraSpace , Authenticator , and Authenticator . Each app takes a different approach to utilities and varies in its data collection and SDK usage.

Utilities · Privacy report

Norton 360 Security & VPN

Free · ★4.7 · Gen Digital Inc.

Is Norton 360 safe?

Not for an app that sees everything you do online.

Our take. A VPN carries all of your traffic, yet Norton 360 is built with more third-party tracking code than 82% of the vpns we have scanned. We would not trust it with anything private.

Privacy footprint · vs 33 vpnsHeavy

Trackers from other companies10 · a lot

typical vpns: 3

Data the app links to you2 types · some

typical vpns: 0 · from its own privacy label

What it collects about you

Norton 360 links 2 categories of your data to you.

From the developer's own App Store privacy label. These are the kinds of data Norton 360 ties to your identity, and it also declares it shares data to track you across other apps.

Contact InfoIdentifiers

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

🇺🇸MetaAdvertising

Facebook advertising SDKs, built to link app activity to Facebook and Instagram ad profiles.

SDKs

🇺🇸SingularAttribution

Marketing attribution and analytics.

SDK

How it compares

Where it sits among vpns.

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 vpn app. Norton 360 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 89 SDKs in the app, grouped by what they are for. 10 are third-party trackers.

3advertising

1attribution

6analytics

79standard libraries

10 of the 89 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

Adobe Analytics · Adobe Experience Platform · Adobe Identity · Adobe Lifecycle · Adobe Rules Engine · Adobe Services

MetaAdvertising · USA

Facebook AEM · Facebook SDK · Facebook Login

SingularAttribution · USA

Singular

Standard libraries79 · 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 v26.4.1, 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 33 vpns in our corpus. Trackers: median 3. Data linked to you: median 0.