Is OneDrive safe to use?

OneDrive integrates 36 third-party SDKs spanning infrastructure, media, and security. It collects data linked to your identity including Contact Info, User Content, Identifiers, and Usage Data 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 OneDrive need?

OneDrive requests 6 iOS permissions: Camera, Microphone, Contacts, Photo Library, Face ID, and Save to Photo Library.

What data does OneDrive collect?

According to its App Store privacy label, OneDrive collects data linked to your identity including Contact Info, User Content, Identifiers, Usage Data, and Diagnostics.

How many SDKs does OneDrive have?

OneDrive integrates 36 third-party SDKs. 5 for infrastructure and 26 for other. None are for advertising, attribution, or analytics.

Does OneDrive access your camera or microphone?

OneDrive requests access to both your camera and microphone. The developer says camera access is for "OneDrive needs access to your camera to take photos and videos". Microphone access is for "OneDrive needs access to your microphone to record videos". These permissions are only active when you grant them in iOS Settings.

Does OneDrive access your contacts?

Yes. OneDrive requests access to your contacts. The developer states: "OneDrive needs access to share to contacts.".

Does OneDrive run in the background?

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

What are some alternatives to OneDrive?

Other productivity apps include 1Password , AdGuard VPN , Wix , Edge Gallery , SHAREit , and AOL . Each app takes a different approach to productivity and varies in its data collection and SDK usage.

Productivity · Privacy report

Microsoft OneDrive

Free · ★4.7 · Microsoft Corporation

Is OneDrive safe?

It collects a lot of your data itself.

Our take. Its own App Store privacy label declares OneDrive links 5 categories of your data to your identity, including contact info, user content, identifiers and usage data. That collection, more than any outside tracker, is the story here.

Privacy footprint · vs 128 productivityModerate

Trackers from other companies0 · none

typical productivity: 2.5

Data the app links to you5 types · some

typical productivity: 3 · from its own privacy label

What it collects about you

OneDrive links 5 categories of your data to you.

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

Contact InfoUser ContentIdentifiersUsage DataDiagnostics

Who else is inside

Few or no outside trackers.

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

How it compares

Where it sits among productivity.

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 productivity app. OneDrive sits high on the left: it collects a lot itself but uses few outside trackers.

The evidence

What it's built from.

All 36 SDKs in the app, grouped by what they are for. None are third-party trackers.

36standard libraries

0 of the 36 are third-party trackers. The rest are the app's own code and standard open-source building blocks.

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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 v16.36.4, 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 128 productivity in our corpus. Trackers: median 2.5. Data linked to you: median 3.