From December 8, 2020, the App Store lists on each app’s product page, information about some data types the app may collect, and whether that data is linked to them or used to track them.
As a reminder, this information is required to submit or update applications.
Store starting December 8, 2020. Existing applications will remain available for download.
Data collected:
Browsing History
- Browsing History: Information about the content the user has viewed that is not part of the app, such as websites
Identifiers
- Device ID: Such as the device’s advertising identifier, or other device-level ID
Usage Data
- Product Interaction: Such as app launches, taps, clicks, scrolling information, music listening data, video views, saved place in a game, video, or song, or other information about how the user interacts with the app
- Advertising Data: Such as information about the advertisements the user has seen
Diagnostics
- Crash Data: Such as crash logs
- Performance Data: Such as launch time, hang rate, or energy use
These data are used for:
- Used for third-party advertising
- Link to the user's identity
- Used for tracking purposes
Data below are not collected:
Contact Info
- Name: Such as first or last name
- Email Address: Including but not limited to a hashed email address
- Phone Number: Including but not limited to a hashed phone number
- Physical Address: Such as home address, physical address, or mailing address
- Other User Contact Info: Any other information that can be used to contact the - user outside the app
Health and Fitness
- Health: Health and medical data, including but not limited to data from the - Health Records API, HealthKit API, MovementDisorderAPIs, or - ted human subject research or any other user-provided health or - a
- Fitness: Fitness and exercise data, including but not limited to the Motion and Fitness API
Financial Info
- Payment Info: Such as form of payment, payment card number, or bank account - number. If your app uses a payment service, the payment information is entered - outside your app, and you as the developer never have access to the payment - information, it is not collected and does not need to be disclosed.
- Credit Info: Such as credit score
- Other Financial Info: Such as salary, income, assets, debts, or any other - financial information
Location
- Precise Location: Information that describes the location of a user or device with the same or greater resolution as a latitude and longitude with three or more decimal places
- Coarse Location: Information that describes the location of a user or device with lower resolution than a latitude and longitude with three or more decimal places, such as Approximate Location Services
Sensitive Info
- Sensitive Info: Such as racial or ethnic data, sexual orientation, pregnancy or childbirth information, disability, religious or philosophical beliefs, trade union membership, political opinion, genetic information, or biometric data
Contacts
- Contacts: Such as a list of contacts in the user’s phone, address book, or social graphUser
Content
- Emails or Text Messages: Including subject line, sender, recipients, and contents of the email or message
- Photos or Videos: The user’s photos or videos
- Audio Data: The user’s voice or sound recordings
- Gameplay Content: Such as user-generated content in-game
- Customer Support: Data generated by the user during a customer support request
- Other User Content: Any other user-generated content
Browsing History
- Search History: Information about searches performed in the app
Identifiers
- User ID: Such as screen name, handle, account ID, assigned user ID, customer number, or other user- or account-level ID that can be used to identify a particular user or account
Purchases
- Purchase History: An account’s or individual’s purchases or purchase tendencies
Usage Data
- Other Usage Data: Any other data about user activity in the app
Diagnostics
- Other Diagnostic Data: Any other data collected for the purposes of measuring technical diagnostics related to the app
Other Data
- Other Data Types: Any other data types not mentioned