1 · What we collect
Location
Magic Weather uses the iOS / macOS / watchOS / tvOS Location service, with your explicit permission, to fetch weather for your current location. Your location is sent only to the weather provider you have selected — Apple Weather, Open-Meteo, or wttr.in — and is never sent to us, never stored on a server we control, and never shared with any third party.
If you set a location manually in Settings → Change Location, Location Services is not used at all.
Nothing else
We do not collect device identifiers, advertising IDs, contacts, calendars, photos, or any usage analytics. There are no third-party SDKs, no ads, no trackers, no fingerprinting. The "App Privacy" label on our App Store page reflects this — only Coarse and Precise Location are collected, and only for App Functionality, never linked to user identity, never used for tracking.
2 · What stays on your device
The following live entirely on your device, never on a server we run:
- Cached weather tiles (60-minute weather, 30-day base maps)
- Your saved locations
- Your theme, app icon, units and notification preferences
- Your reordered detail-card layout
- Any AI-generated weather summaries
- Custom notification rules
iCloud sync between your own devices may carry these settings if you have iCloud enabled — that's Apple's iCloud, not our servers.
3 · Notifications
Push notifications are delivered via the Apple Push Notification service. We do not maintain a server-side log of which alerts you receive. Government weather alerts (NWS, MeteoAlarm) and tropical cyclone updates are pulled from public feeds and matched on-device against your monitored locations — the matching happens on your phone.
Custom notification rules you create live on your device.
4 · Third-party data sources
Each provider below has its own privacy practices. We send only what's necessary (typically a latitude/longitude) to fetch the data you asked for.
- Apple Weather — Apple Privacy Policy
- Open-Meteo — Open-Meteo Terms
- wttr.in — wttr.in repository
- OpenWeatherMap (Globe overlay tiles only) — OWM Privacy
- ESRI (satellite base imagery for the Globe)
- NOAA / NWS and MeteoAlarm — public severe-weather alert feeds
- Apple Intelligence — on-device summarization. Weather text is processed locally; nothing leaves your device.
5 · Children's privacy
Magic Weather does not collect personal information and is suitable for all ages (rated 4+). It is not directed at children specifically and does not include child-targeted advertising or social features.
6 · Changes & contact
If this policy ever changes, the new version will be posted here with an updated effective date. Material changes will also be announced inside the app.
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