Miqat App
Privacy Policy and Support
Miqat contains no networking code.
Not a tracker that is switched off, not an analytics library behind a toggle. There is no code in the app capable of opening a connection, which means there is nothing it can send anywhere and nothing anyone could sell. You do not have to take that on faith, and the Verify it yourself section below shows you how to check it in about five minutes.
What Miqat collects
Nothing.
There is no server, no account, no analytics, no advertising, no crash reporter, and no third party SDK of any kind. The App Store privacy label for Miqat reads Data Not Collected, and that is a description of the binary rather than a statement of intent.
What stays on your device
The app does work with information. All of it stays inside the app's own storage on your iPhone.
Your location
Prayer times and the qibla direction are geometry, and they cannot be computed without knowing roughly where you are. Miqat asks for location While Using the App and requests it at reduced accuracy on purpose, because prayer times do not change measurably inside a kilometre or two. The coordinate is cached on the device so the app works next time without asking again. It is never transmitted, because there is nothing in the app to transmit it with.
If you decline the permission the app still works. Search for your city instead and everything else behaves the same.
Your settings
Calculation method, madhab, per prayer minute adjustments, which reminders you want, and the city you picked are stored in the app's own preferences on the device, shared with the Miqat widgets through an Apple App Group. Deleting the app deletes all of it.
Your reminders
Prayer reminders are local notifications scheduled by iOS on the device. There is no push server behind them, which is also why the app writes about ten days of them ahead of time and asks you to open it occasionally.
The place names
When Miqat shows the name of the city you are in, it is not looking it up. A table of cities is compiled into the app and it picks the nearest one. Apple's own geocoding would have been a network call, so it is not used.
What Apple sees
One honest boundary. Downloading any app from the App Store is a transaction between you and Apple, and Apple collects its own data about it, including aggregate figures that appear in the developer's App Store Connect account. Those are counts of downloads and crashes with no identity attached, and they exist whether or not a developer wants them. They are covered by Apple's privacy policy , not by this one. Miqat itself never speaks to Apple's servers or anyone else's.
Children
Miqat is rated 4+ and is safe at any age, because it holds nothing personal and sends nothing anywhere. It is not directed at children specifically, and it collects no data from anyone regardless of age.
Your rights
Regulations such as the GDPR and the CCPA give you rights to access, correct, export and delete the personal data a company holds about you. In Miqat's case every one of those requests has the same answer: no data about you is held anywhere outside your own phone, so there is nothing to hand over, correct or delete. If you want it gone, delete the app. iOS removes the app's container with it.
Changes to this policy
If a future version of Miqat ever changes what it does with information, this page changes first and the app's release notes say so plainly. A change of that kind would mean the central claim of the app no longer held, so it is not one that would be made quietly.
Verify it yourself
Every prayer app says it respects your privacy. The difference here is that you can check, and the check takes five minutes with free software.
With a proxy
Install Proxyman or Charles on your Mac and follow its instructions to route your iPhone through it. Then use Miqat all day: open it, change your city, switch calculation methods, let a prayer time pass. The log stays empty. There is no traffic to filter out, because there is none.
With airplane mode
Cruder, faster, and it proves the useful half. Turn on airplane mode, turn off Wi-Fi, and open the app. Everything works: today's times, tomorrow's, the qibla, the countdown, the widgets. An app that needed a server would show you a spinner.
In the astronomy
Every prayer time comes from the position of the sun, computed on the device with the same model a printed timetable uses. Nothing is fetched because nothing needs to be.
Support
Questions, bug reports, a prayer time that disagrees with the calendar your mosque prints, or a city missing from the list: write and you will get a reply from a person.
faruk@makeitproduct.comBefore you write about a prayer time
Published calendars add their own safety margins on top of the astronomy, and different authorities disagree with each other by design. If Miqat is a couple of minutes off from the calendar you follow, that is usually the answer rather than a bug. Settings has a Fine tuning page that shifts any prayer a minute at a time so you can match your own mosque exactly. Tell me which city and which calendar you follow and I will check the method defaults for that region.
Reporting a bug
The useful details are your city, the calculation method and madhab you have set, what the app showed, and what you expected. A screenshot covers most of that.
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