Warning About a Popular Prayer App Exposing Our Data in 2026

Assalamu alaikum dear brothers and sisters. I wanted to share an urgent heads-up about an app many of us use. You might remember a few years ago, there was a big scandal where a well-known prayer app was sharing our location with outside companies, some linked to military contractors. They apologized and said they fixed things. I do some security checks on apps in my spare time, and I recently looked into the latest version of this app to see if things truly got better. What I found worried me, so I reached out to them privately, giving plenty of time to respond-over three months. No reply, no fix. So now I’m telling the community because it’s your info at stake. In simple terms, here’s what I saw without going into technical details: * The community section where brothers and sisters share struggles like marriage issues, health, or personal duas is open for anyone to read, even without an account. Your location and gender can be seen too. * The option to make your profile private doesn’t actually work. Even if you turn it on, your posts and details are still accessible. * The app can grab your exact GPS location before you even open it or log in, which goes against their own promises. * With just a basic account, real names and birth dates can be linked to your public profile. To be fair, I didn’t find the same old location-selling setup active this time. But the bigger issue is how the app is built-it leaks your identity, where you are, and your religious activities more than any prayer app should. For Muslims in places where being known as practicing or being tracked to a masjid could bring harm, this is serious. My advice: consider removing it. There are simpler apps for prayer times, Qibla, and Quran that don’t need an account or share your location. If you keep it, at least turn off location access completely, don’t use the community feature, and know that anything you’ve shared there is likely public. I’m not here to cause fitna-I gave them every chance to fix this quietly. May Allah protect us all. Feel free to ask if you have questions.