Is Public Storage safe to use?

Public Storage integrates 1 third-party SDK for infrastructure. It collects data linked to your identity including Location, Identifiers, Usage Data, and Diagnostics and 1 more category. It does not include any advertising or attribution SDKs. Whether this is acceptable depends on your personal privacy preferences.

What permissions does Public Storage need?

Public Storage requests 6 iOS permissions: Location (When In Use), Location (Always), Location (Always & When In Use), Face ID, Bluetooth, and Bluetooth Peripheral.

What data does Public Storage collect?

According to its App Store privacy label, Public Storage collects data linked to your identity including Location, Identifiers, Usage Data, Diagnostics, and Other Data.

How many SDKs does Public Storage have?

Public Storage integrates 1 third-party SDK. It is Hermes JS Engine (React Native), used for infrastructure. None are for advertising, attribution, or analytics.

Does Public Storage access your location?

Yes. Public Storage requests location access. The developer states: "Be notified when you're near your storage facility.".

Does Public Storage run in the background?

Yes. Public Storage registers 5 background modes, which means it can perform certain tasks when you're not actively using it.

What are some alternatives to Public Storage?

Other business apps include Acrobat , ADP Mobile , Google Ads , isolved , Printer App , and Amazon . Each app takes a different approach to business and varies in its data collection and SDK usage.

Business · Privacy report

Public Storage

Free · ★4.6 · Public Storage

Is Public Storage safe?

It collects a lot of your data itself.

Our take. Its own App Store privacy label declares Public Storage links 5 categories of your data to your identity, including location, identifiers, usage data and diagnostics. That collection, more than any outside tracker, is the story here.

Privacy footprint · vs 115 businessModerate

Trackers from other companies0 · none

typical business: 3

Data the app links to you5 types · some

typical business: 5 · from its own privacy label

What it collects about you

Public Storage links 5 categories of your data to you.

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

LocationIdentifiersUsage DataDiagnosticsOther Data

Who else is inside

Few or no outside trackers.

We found no advertising, analytics, or attribution SDKs from other companies in Public Storage.

How it compares

Where it sits among business.

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 busines app. Public Storage sits high on the left: it collects a lot itself but uses few outside trackers.

The evidence

What it's built from.

All 1 SDKs in the app, grouped by what they are for. None are third-party trackers.

1standard libraries

0 of the 1 are third-party trackers. The rest are the app's own code and standard open-source building blocks.

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Standard libraries1 · 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 v2.23.0, 2026-04-01.

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 115 business in our corpus. Trackers: median 3. Data linked to you: median 5.