Privacy Policy

Hotspot Monitor · last updated October 2026

Hotspot Monitor doesn't collect, sell or share personal information, and has no accounts, ads or analytics.

What stays on your iPhone

Your hotspot's address, its dashboard login (kept in the iPhone Keychain), your settings, buttons, favorites and net logs are stored only on your iPhone.

What the app connects to

• Your hotspot, on your own network, to read who's on the air and to change settings you ask it to.
• aprs.fi, only if you enter your own aprs.fi API key: the callsigns of callers on screen are sent to look up their APRS position.
• Apple, to find the location of a caller's city (Apple's geocoder) and, if you turn on Location, your own position on the phone.
• BrandMeister and TGIF, to download public talkgroup lists.
• WPSD's code server, to check whether your hotspot's software is up to date.

Location

If you turn Location on, your position is used on your iPhone for your grid square, city and distance to callers. It isn't sent anywhere.

Live Activity updates with the app closed

If you install the optional Pi helper and turn this on, your hotspot sends the current caller's details and your iPhone's Live Activity push token to this relay, which passes them to Apple's push service to update your Lock Screen. The relay doesn't store them. Like any web service, its host (Google Cloud) keeps short-lived technical logs such as IP addresses.

Contact

See the support page.