Is Fox Nation safe to use?

Fox Nation integrates 19 third-party SDKs spanning analytics, advertising, and media. Its App Store privacy label declares cross-app tracking via Contact Info and Identifiers. It collects data linked to your identity including Purchases, Contact Info, Search History, and Identifiers and 3 more categories. It includes 3 advertising or attribution SDKs. Whether this is acceptable depends on your personal privacy preferences.

What permissions does Fox Nation need?

Fox Nation requests 12 iOS permissions: App Tracking Transparency, Camera, Microphone, Photo Library, Location (When In Use), Location (Always), Location (Always & When In Use), Face ID, Save to Photo Library, Bluetooth, Bluetooth Peripheral, and Local Network.

What data does Fox Nation collect?

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

How many SDKs does Fox Nation have?

Fox Nation integrates 19 third-party SDKs. 2 for advertising, 1 for attribution, 5 for analytics, and 9 for other.

Does Fox Nation use Google SDKs?

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

Does Fox Nation use App Tracking Transparency?

Yes. Fox Nation 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 Nation access your location?

Yes. Fox Nation requests location access. The developer states: "Location is required to determine your local FOX station. Without this, your listings data may be inaccurate.".

Does Fox Nation access your camera or microphone?

Fox Nation requests access to both your camera and microphone. The developer says camera access is for "We need access to your camera in order to allow you to take a photo and attach it to this ticket". Microphone access is for "Microphone required to listen for ultrasonic tokens when pairing with nearby Cast devices". These permissions are only active when you grant them in iOS Settings.

Does Fox Nation run in the background?

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

What are some alternatives to Fox Nation?

Other news apps include 5-0 Radio Pro , ABC News , AJ English , Creators , AppAdvice , and Aungbarlay . Each app takes a different approach to news and varies in its data collection and SDK usage.

News · Privacy report

Fox Nation

Free · ★4.7 · Fox News Network, LLC

Is Fox Nation safe?

It leans heavily on third-party trackers.

Our take. Fox Nation is built with more third-party tracking code than 70% of the news we have scanned, including an analytics SDK from Israel.

Privacy footprint · vs 81 newsHeavy

Trackers from other companies8 · a lot

typical news: 5

Data the app links to you7 types · some

typical news: 4 · from its own privacy label

What it collects about you

Fox Nation links 7 categories of your data to you.

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

PurchasesContact InfoSearch 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

🏢Messaging SDKMessaging

Push notification and messaging platform.

SDKs

🇮🇱AppsFlyerAttribution · Israel

Marketing attribution and audience analytics.

SDK

🏢Analytics SDKAnalytics

A product analytics platform.

SDK

How it compares

Where it sits among news.

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 new app. Fox Nation sits to the right, carrying more third-party tracking 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 Israel

AppsFlyer is a Israel company. Its analytics SDK is built into the app.

The evidence

What it's built from.

All 19 SDKs in the app, grouped by what they are for. 8 are third-party trackers.

2advertising

1attribution

5analytics

11standard libraries

8 of the 19 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 partiesadvertising

Google Interactive Media Ads (IMA) · Open Measurement (Fox) · Conviva · Mux Analytics

Messaging SDKMessaging

Braze · Braze Notifications

AppsFlyerAttribution · Israel

AppsFlyer

Analytics SDKAnalytics

Segment

Standard libraries11 · 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 v3.83, 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 81 news in our corpus. Trackers: median 5. Data linked to you: median 4.