Privacy Policy — Peek Outside
Last updated: 23 September 2026
The short version
Peek Outside does not collect any data about you. There is no account, no analytics, no advertising and no tracking. The app never asks where you are.
What the app stores
Everything the app keeps stays on your device:
the places you have opened the doors onto, and what was known about them;
your settings — whether the doors open onto landmarks or any street, and which countries are included.
Deleting the app deletes all of it. None of it is sent anywhere, and there is no account to sync it to.
Network access
Unlike its sibling apps, Peek Outside needs an internet connection. The street imagery behind the doors comes from Apple Maps, so each time the doors open the app asks Apple for imagery near a coordinate, and for the address and nearby places at that spot.
Those coordinates are chosen at random by the app. They are not your location: the app has no location permission, never requests one, and could not tell you where you are if you asked it to.
Those requests are handled by Apple's own Maps services and are covered by Apple's privacy policy, not this one.
Descriptions
The short description of each place is written on your device by Apple Intelligence, on devices that support it. Nothing is sent to a server to produce it, and nothing about it is stored beyond your own history. On devices without Apple Intelligence, the app shows only the address and nearby places that Apple Maps returned.
Descriptions are machine-written and may be wrong. They are labelled as such in the app.
Purchases
There are none. The app is free, with no in-app purchases, no subscriptions and no advertising.
Third parties
There are none. No analytics, no crash reporting, no advertising networks, no social sign-in, no third-party frameworks of any kind.
Children
The app collects no data from anyone, including children.
Imagery and place data
Street-level imagery, addresses and points of interest come from Apple Maps. Peek Outside is not affiliated with Apple, and the bus it draws is not affiliated with any manufacturer.
Changes
If this policy changes, the revised version will be posted here with a new date. Given that the app collects nothing, substantial changes are unlikely.