Is PowerPoint safe to use?

PowerPoint integrates 1 third-party SDK. It collects data linked to your identity including Location, Contact Info, Contacts, and User Content and 3 more categories. It does not include any advertising or attribution SDKs. Whether this is acceptable depends on your personal privacy preferences.

What permissions does PowerPoint need?

PowerPoint requests 7 iOS permissions: Camera, Microphone, Contacts, Photo Library, Face ID, Save to Photo Library, and Apple Music.

What data does PowerPoint collect?

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

How many SDKs does PowerPoint have?

PowerPoint integrates 1 third-party SDK. It is msospectre_ios, used for other. None are for advertising, attribution, or analytics.

Does PowerPoint access your camera or microphone?

PowerPoint requests access to both your camera and microphone. The developer says camera access is for "This lets you take photos to insert into your presentation". Microphone access is for "Allow microphone access to insert audio into your slide, rehearse using Presenter Coach, and to search using your voice". These permissions are only active when you grant them in iOS Settings.

Does PowerPoint access your contacts?

Yes. PowerPoint requests access to your contacts. The developer states: "This helps you quickly invite contacts to edit or view your presentation.".

Does PowerPoint run in the background?

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

What are some alternatives to PowerPoint?

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 PowerPoint

Free · ★4.7 · Microsoft Corporation

Is PowerPoint safe?

It collects a lot of your data itself.

Our take. Its own App Store privacy label declares PowerPoint links 7 categories of your data to your identity, including location, contact info, contacts and user content. 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 you7 types · some

typical productivity: 3 · from its own privacy label

What it collects about you

PowerPoint links 7 categories of your data to you.

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

LocationContact InfoContactsUser ContentIdentifiersUsage DataDiagnostics

Who else is inside

Few or no outside trackers.

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

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. PowerPoint 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 v2.107.3, 2026-04-05.

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.