Is UNIQLO safe to use?

UNIQLO integrates 69 third-party SDKs spanning infrastructure, analytics, and authentication. Its App Store privacy label declares cross-app tracking via Identifiers. It collects data linked to your identity including Purchases, Financial Info, Contact Info, and User Content and 3 more categories. It includes 2 advertising or attribution SDKs. Whether this is acceptable depends on your personal privacy preferences.

What permissions does UNIQLO need?

UNIQLO requests 6 iOS permissions: App Tracking Transparency, Camera, Photo Library, Location (When In Use), Face ID, and Bluetooth.

How many SDKs does UNIQLO have?

UNIQLO integrates 69 third-party SDKs. 1 for advertising, 1 for attribution, 16 for analytics, 2 for crash reporting, 19 for infrastructure, and 20 for other.

Does UNIQLO use App Tracking Transparency?

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

Does UNIQLO access your location?

Yes. UNIQLO requests location access. The developer states: "In order to search for stores nearby, please allow location services access.".

Does UNIQLO access your camera?

UNIQLO requests access to your camera. The developer says this is for "To allow scanning items' barcodes, please allow camera access". These permissions are only active when you grant them in iOS Settings.

Does UNIQLO run in the background?

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

What are some alternatives to UNIQLO?

Other shopping apps include Harbor Freight , AE + Aerie , Afterpay , ALDI Grocery Pickup & Delivery , AliExpress , and Victoria's Secret . Each app takes a different approach to shopping and varies in its data collection and SDK usage.

Shopping · Privacy report

UNIQLO: Clothes Shopping

Free · ★4.8 · UNIQLO CO., LTD.

Is UNIQLO safe?

It leans heavily on third-party trackers.

Our take. UNIQLO is built with more third-party tracking code than 98% of the shopping we have scanned, including an analytics SDK from Israel.

Privacy footprint · vs 80 shoppingHeavy

Trackers from other companies18 · a lot

typical shopping: 5

Data the app links to you7 types · some

typical shopping: 8 · from its own privacy label

What it collects about you

UNIQLO links 7 categories of your data to you.

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

PurchasesFinancial InfoContact InfoUser ContentIdentifiersUsage DataOther Data

Who else is inside

It carries trackers from 5 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.

🇺🇸GoogleAnalytics

Firebase, AdMob and Google analytics SDKs, built to record how you use the app and serve ads.

SDKs

🏢Monitoring SDKAnalytics

Crash and performance monitoring.

SDKs

🏢Other third partiesadvertising

A third-party SDK.

SDKs

🇮🇱AppsFlyerAttribution · Israel

Marketing attribution and audience analytics.

SDK

🏢Messaging SDKMessaging

Push notification and messaging platform.

SDK

How it compares

Where it sits among shopping.

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 shopping app. UNIQLO 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 69 SDKs in the app, grouped by what they are for. 18 are third-party trackers.

1advertising

1attribution

16analytics

2crash reporting

3push & messaging

46standard libraries

18 of the 69 are third-party trackers. 3 are push-notification SDKs that deliver notifications, rather than tracking you across apps. The rest are the app's own code and standard open-source building blocks.

Show the full SDK list

GoogleAnalytics · USA

Firebase A/B Testing · Firebase Core · Firebase In-App Messaging · Firebase Performance · Firebase Remote Config · Firebase Remote Config Interop · Firebase Sessions · Google Data Transport · Firebase Analytics (Flutter) · Firebase Remote Config (Flutter)

Monitoring SDKAnalytics

Datadog · Datadog Internal · Datadog Logs · Datadog RUM

Other third partiesadvertising

Google Ads Conversion · OneTrust Privacy/Consent

AppsFlyerAttribution · Israel

AppsFlyer

Messaging SDKMessaging

Braze

Push & messaging3 · notifications

Standard libraries46 · 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 v96947, 2026-04-04.

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 80 shopping in our corpus. Trackers: median 5. Data linked to you: median 8.