Is WKYC Weather safe to use?

WKYC Weather integrates 25 third-party SDKs spanning infrastructure, analytics, and advertising. Its App Store privacy label declares cross-app tracking via Location, Identifiers, and Usage Data. It collects data linked to your identity including Location, Contact Info, User Content, and Identifiers and 1 more category. It includes 2 advertising or attribution SDKs. Whether this is acceptable depends on your personal privacy preferences.

What permissions does WKYC Weather need?

WKYC Weather requests 11 iOS permissions: App Tracking Transparency, Camera, Microphone, Photo Library, Location (When In Use), Location (Always), Location (Always & When In Use), Calendars, Save to Photo Library, Bluetooth, and Bluetooth Peripheral.

What data does WKYC Weather collect?

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

How many SDKs does WKYC Weather have?

WKYC Weather integrates 25 third-party SDKs. 2 for advertising, 7 for analytics, 9 for infrastructure, and 7 for other.

Does WKYC Weather use Google SDKs?

Yes. WKYC Weather includes 5 Google or Firebase SDKs: Google Interactive Media Ads (IMA), Firebase Core, Firebase Core Internal, Firebase Installations, and Google Utilities. These are primarily used for advertising.

Does WKYC Weather use App Tracking Transparency?

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

Does WKYC Weather access your location?

Yes. WKYC Weather requests location access. The developer states: "Text goes in InfoPList.strings files.".

Does WKYC Weather access your camera or microphone?

WKYC Weather requests access to both your camera and microphone. The developer says camera access is for "Text goes in InfoPList.strings files". Microphone access is for "Text goes in InfoPList.strings files". These permissions are only active when you grant them in iOS Settings.

Does WKYC Weather run in the background?

Yes. WKYC Weather registers 1 background mode, which means it can perform certain tasks when you're not actively using it.

What are some alternatives to WKYC Weather?

Other weather apps include 13abc Weather , Drive Weather , 4WarnMe , AirVisual , Alpenglow , and Acme Weather . Each app takes a different approach to weather and varies in its data collection and SDK usage.

Weather · Privacy report

WKYC Weather

Free · ★4.7 · Tegna Inc.

Is WKYC Weather safe?

It leans heavily on third-party trackers.

Our take. WKYC Weather is built with more third-party tracking code than 75% of the weather we have scanned.

Privacy footprint · vs 106 weatherHeavy

Trackers from other companies9 · a lot

typical weather: 5

Data the app links to you5 types · some

typical weather: 1 · from its own privacy label

What it collects about you

WKYC Weather links 5 categories of your data to you.

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

LocationContact InfoUser ContentIdentifiersUsage Data

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.

🏢Other third partiesadvertising

A third-party SDK.

SDKs

🇺🇸AmplitudeAnalytics

Product analytics, built to record detailed behaviour inside the app.

SDK

🇺🇸GoogleAnalytics

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

SDK

How it compares

Where it sits among weather.

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 weather app. WKYC Weather 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 25 SDKs in the app, grouped by what they are for. 9 are third-party trackers.

2advertising

7analytics

16standard libraries

9 of the 25 are third-party trackers. The rest are the app's own code and standard open-source building blocks.

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Other third partiesadvertising

Amazon Publisher Services (DTB) · Google Interactive Media Ads (IMA) · Adobe Experience Platform · Adobe Identity · Adobe Lifecycle · Adobe Rules Engine · Adobe Services

AmplitudeAnalytics · USA

Amplitude

GoogleAnalytics · USA

Firebase Core

Standard libraries16 · 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 v6.1.601, 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 106 weather in our corpus. Trackers: median 5. Data linked to you: median 1.