GPSense Privacy Policy

Last updated: 27 September 2026

GPSense — GPS Test & Status is a GPS utility for iPhone and Apple Watch, distributed through the Apple App Store and published by Andadasi (Karen Simonyan). This policy covers the iOS app and its Apple Watch app; they contain no third-party SDKs, advertising or analytics frameworks.

What the app accesses

GPSense asks iOS for two permissions and uses them while you use the app, and while a track you started is recording:

• Location (“While Using the App”) to show your position, accuracy, altitude, speed and course, and to place you on the world map. While you record a track, GPSense keeps using location in the background — with the screen locked or another app open — until you stop the recording; iOS shows the location indicator meanwhile. The permission stays “While Using the App”; GPSense never asks for “Always”. If you choose “Precise: Off”, the app shows the approximate position iOS provides and offers a one-time request for precise location.
• Motion & Fitness (barometer) to show air pressure and barometric vertical speed.

The Apple Watch app asks the watch for the same two permissions, for the same purposes, and likewise keeps using location with your wrist down only while a track you started on the watch is recording.

The position itself is computed by Apple’s iOS Location Services (GPS, Wi‑Fi and cellular positioning). Any data iOS exchanges with Apple to do that is governed by Apple’s Privacy Policy and your iOS Location Services settings, not by GPSense. The app only reads the result.

What the app does with it

Everything is processed on your device and shown to you. GPSense has no servers, no accounts, no analytics, no advertising, and makes no network connections. Nothing you see in the app is transmitted, stored outside your device, or shared with anyone.

When you use Copy or Share, the coordinates go only where you send them.

When you use GPSense actions in Siri, Shortcuts or the Action button, the app answers on your device. How Siri handles your spoken request is governed by Apple’s Privacy Policy.

Data retention

Everything GPSense keeps stays on your own device, in the app’s own storage:

• Preferences (units, coordinate format, appearance, altimeter calibration). The iPhone app sends your display preferences and your selected waypoint to your own Apple Watch, over Apple’s connection between your watch and iPhone.
• Tracks you record and waypoints you save. GPSense does not collect tracking or location data: tracks and waypoints are never sent to us or to anyone else, and we cannot see them. A track leaves your device only if you export or share it yourself. A track recorded on the Apple Watch is sent from your watch to your own iPhone over Apple’s connection between them, and removed from the watch once the iPhone has saved it.
• Your last position, your selected waypoint and whether a track is recording, so the Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets, the Live Activity and the Apple Watch complications can show them. The watch keeps its own copy on the watch.

Tracks and waypoints are removed when you delete them in the app; everything is removed when you delete the app.

App Store privacy label

On the App Store, GPSense is declared as “Data Not Collected”: the app collects no data linked or not linked to you, and does not track you across apps or websites.

Purchases and beta testing

GPSense is sold as a paid download through the App Store; Apple handles payment and the app never sees your payment details. If you test pre-release versions through TestFlight, Apple may share crash reports and the feedback you choose to send with the developer under the TestFlight terms.

Permissions

You can review or revoke location and motion access at any time in the iOS Settings app under Privacy & Security, or under GPSense in the Settings list. GPSense keeps working with reduced functionality.

Children

GPSense collects no personal data from anyone, including children.

Changes

If this policy changes, the new version will be published at this address with a new date.

Contact and support

Questions or feedback: use the support contact on the GPSense App Store page, or the contact details on the Andadasi home page.