Is My Verizon safe to use?

My Verizon integrates 55 third-party SDKs spanning analytics, infrastructure, and attribution. It collects data linked to your identity including Financial Info, Location, Contact Info, and Search History and 1 more category. It includes 1 advertising or attribution SDK. Whether this is acceptable depends on your personal privacy preferences.

What permissions does My Verizon need?

My Verizon requests 13 iOS permissions: Camera, Microphone, Contacts, Photo Library, Location (When In Use), Location (Always & When In Use), Calendars, Speech Recognition, Face ID, Bluetooth, Bluetooth Peripheral, Local Network, and Apple Music.

What data does My Verizon collect?

According to its App Store privacy label, My Verizon collects data linked to your identity including Financial Info, Location, Contact Info, Search History, and Identifiers. It collects Purchases, Contacts, User Content, Usage Data, Diagnostics, and Surroundings not linked to your identity.

How many SDKs does My Verizon have?

My Verizon integrates 55 third-party SDKs. 1 for attribution, 17 for analytics, 1 for crash reporting, 7 for infrastructure, and 29 for other.

Does My Verizon use Google SDKs?

Yes. My Verizon includes 15 Google or Firebase SDKs: Firebase A/B Testing, Firebase Analytics, Firebase Core, Firebase Performance, Firebase Remote Config, Firebase Remote Config Interop, Firebase Sessions, Google App Measurement, Google Data Transport, Firebase Crashlytics, Firebase Core Extension, Firebase Core Internal, Firebase Installations, Firebase Shared Swift, and Google Utilities. These are primarily used for analytics and cloud services.

Does My Verizon access your location?

Yes. My Verizon requests location access. The developer states: "Your location helps us improve your in-store and network experience, find nearby Verizon stores and events, share relevant offers and personalize your app experience.".

Does My Verizon access your camera or microphone?

My Verizon requests access to both your camera and microphone. The developer says camera access is for "Used for scanning credit cards for bill payment or scanning QR codes". Microphone access is for "Enable microphone access to enable the voice-to-text feature". These permissions are only active when you grant them in iOS Settings.

Does My Verizon access your contacts?

Yes. My Verizon requests access to your contacts. The developer states: "Used to block incoming spam calls and schedule a callback when you need help.".

Does My Verizon run in the background?

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

What are some alternatives to My Verizon?

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

My Verizon

Free · ★4.7 · Verizon Wireless

Is My Verizon safe?

It leans heavily on third-party trackers.

Our take. My Verizon is built with more third-party tracking code than 98% of the utilities we have scanned.

Privacy footprint · vs 112 utilitiesHeavy

Trackers from other companies18 · a lot

typical utilities: 4

Data the app links to you5 types · some

typical utilities: 1 · from its own privacy label

What it collects about you

My Verizon links 5 categories of your data to you.

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

Financial InfoLocationContact InfoSearch HistoryIdentifiers

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

🇺🇸GoogleAnalytics

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

SDKs

🇺🇸BranchAttribution

Deep linking and marketing attribution.

SDK

How it compares

Where it sits among utilities.

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 utilitie app. My Verizon sits to the right, carrying more third-party tracking than most.

The evidence

What it's built from.

All 55 SDKs in the app, grouped by what they are for. 18 are third-party trackers.

1attribution

17analytics

1crash reporting

36standard libraries

18 of the 55 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 · Google App Measurement · New Relic · Quantum Metric

GoogleAnalytics · USA

Firebase A/B Testing · Firebase Analytics · Firebase Core · Firebase Performance · Firebase Remote Config · Firebase Remote Config Interop · Firebase Sessions · Google Data Transport

BranchAttribution · USA

Branch

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 v21.6.2, 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 112 utilities in our corpus. Trackers: median 4. Data linked to you: median 1.