IFO has no accounts, no analytics, no advertising, and no server of its own. There is very little to disclose, and this page says all of it plainly.
Last updated: 31 July 2026
The short version. IFO does not collect, store, or transmit any personal information about you. It has no backend. Your precise location never leaves your device. The camera feed is never recorded or uploaded. Nothing you do in the app is tracked, profiled, or shared with anyone.
PrivacyInfo.xcprivacy manifest declares NSPrivacyTracking = false with an empty tracking-domains list.IFO requests location while in use. Your position is what makes the app work at all: where an aircraft or satellite appears in your sky is a calculation performed against where you are standing.
Your precise location stays on the device. All the sky geometry — azimuth and elevation, distances, orbit propagation, pass prediction — is computed locally on your iPhone.
One thing has to leave the device: the air-traffic feed needs a center point to answer "what is flying near here?". Before that request is made, IFO deliberately coarsens your position:
No identifier of any kind accompanies these requests. IFO does not log them, does not receive them, and cannot associate them with you or with each other.
IFO requests camera access to draw labels over the live view of the sky. The video is rendered on screen in real time and is never recorded, never written to disk, and never uploaded. IFO has no photo or video capture feature and requests no access to your photo library.
IFO requests Bluetooth access to receive Remote ID — the identification broadcast that drones above a certain weight are required to transmit in the United States. This is receive-only. IFO listens for these public broadcasts and never advertises, never connects, and never transmits anything, so nearby drones and their operators learn nothing about you. Decoding, including the make and model lookup, happens entirely offline on your device.
| Request | What is sent | Your location? |
|---|---|---|
| Aircraft feed (adsb.lol) | Grid-snapped coordinates and a search radius | Coarse only, as described above |
| Flight route lookup (adsb.lol) | The flight's callsign and the aircraft's own broadcast position | No |
| Aircraft photo (planespotters.net) | The aircraft's ICAO hex code | No |
| Satellite element sets (CelesTrak) | A catalogue group name only | No |
The last three fire only when you open a detail card or refresh orbit data — never on the routine polling path. Every request carries a static, generic user-agent string identifying the app version, with no device or user identifier of any kind.
These requests are made directly from your device to those third parties, so — as with any network request — they necessarily see your IP address and the request itself. IFO sends them nothing else. Their handling of that is governed by their own policies: adsb.lol, CelesTrak, and planespotters.net.
Everything IFO stores stays in the app's own container on your iPhone. None of it syncs anywhere.
Deleting IFO removes all of it.
IFO Pro is sold through Apple's In-App Purchase system. Payment is handled entirely by Apple: no payment details ever reach IFO, and there is no server of ours for them to reach. Your entitlement is verified on-device against Apple's StoreKit records. Apple's own privacy policy governs the transaction.
IFO is rated 4+ and is suitable for all ages. It collects no information from anyone, including children, and has no user-generated content, messaging, or social features.
Regulations such as the GDPR and CCPA give you rights to access, correct, export, or delete personal data held about you. IFO holds none — there is no account, no profile, and no server-side record of your existence. If you would like that confirmed in writing for your own records, or have any question about the above, please get in touch.
If this policy changes, the updated version will be posted on this page with a new date, and material changes will be described in the app's release notes. IFO's design makes an expansion of data collection unlikely: there is no backend to collect anything into.
IFO is made by one person. Email support@tiredithumans.com and you will reach them directly.