Is LG ThinQ safe to use?

LG ThinQ integrates 30 third-party SDKs spanning infrastructure, advertising, and media. Its App Store privacy label declares cross-app tracking via Identifiers. It collects data linked to your identity including Location, Contact Info, User Content, and Identifiers and 2 more categories. It includes 4 advertising or attribution SDKs. Whether this is acceptable depends on your personal privacy preferences.

What permissions does LG ThinQ need?

LG ThinQ requests 11 iOS permissions: App Tracking Transparency, Camera, Microphone, Photo Library, Location (When In Use), Location (Always & When In Use), Calendars, Save to Photo Library, Bluetooth, Apple Music, and HomeKit.

What data does LG ThinQ collect?

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

How many SDKs does LG ThinQ have?

LG ThinQ integrates 30 third-party SDKs. 4 for advertising, 2 for analytics, 6 for infrastructure, and 15 for other.

Does LG ThinQ use Facebook tracking?

Yes. LG ThinQ 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 LG ThinQ use App Tracking Transparency?

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

Does LG ThinQ access your location?

Yes. LG ThinQ requests location access. The developer states: "Used to get weather information".

Does LG ThinQ access your camera or microphone?

LG ThinQ requests access to both your camera and microphone. The developer says camera access is for "Used to Camera". Microphone access is for "Used for sound diagnosis". These permissions are only active when you grant them in iOS Settings.

Does LG ThinQ run in the background?

Yes. LG ThinQ registers 7 background modes, which means it can perform certain tasks when you're not actively using it.

What are some alternatives to LG ThinQ?

Other lifestyle apps include AARP Now , FocusedActionJournal , Apartment List , Apartments , NGL , and ecobee . Each app takes a different approach to lifestyle and varies in its data collection and SDK usage.

Lifestyle · Privacy report

LG ThinQ

Free · ★4.6 · LG Electronics, Inc.

Is LG ThinQ safe?

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

Our take. LG ThinQ carries 6 third-party trackers and its own label declares it links 6 categories of your data to you. It collects a lot itself, and shares a lot with outside companies.

Privacy footprint · vs 87 lifestyleModerate

Trackers from other companies6 · some

typical lifestyle: 4

Data the app links to you6 types · some

typical lifestyle: 5 · from its own privacy label

What it collects about you

LG ThinQ links 6 categories of your data to you.

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

LocationContact InfoUser ContentIdentifiersUsage DataDiagnostics

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.

🇺🇸MetaAdvertising

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

SDKs

🏢Other third partiesadvertising

A third-party SDK.

SDKs

🏢Analytics SDKAnalytics

A product analytics platform.

SDK

How it compares

Where it sits among lifestyle.

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 lifestyle app. LG ThinQ 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 30 SDKs in the app, grouped by what they are for. 6 are third-party trackers.

4advertising

2analytics

24standard libraries

6 of the 30 are third-party trackers. The rest are the app's own code and standard open-source building blocks.

Show the full SDK list

MetaAdvertising · USA

Facebook AEM · Facebook SDK · Facebook Login

Other third partiesadvertising

Snap Kit · Salesforce Marketing Cloud

Analytics SDKAnalytics

Mixpanel

Standard libraries24 · 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 v5.1.29211, 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 87 lifestyle in our corpus. Trackers: median 4. Data linked to you: median 5.