Privacy Policy

Last updated: 3 October 2026

Wayside warns you about speed cameras while you drive. It is built so that information about you and your journeys stays on your iPhone.

What Wayside uses

Location

Wayside reads your location while you drive to compare it with the camera database on your iPhone. Your location is processed on the device. It is not stored and is not sent anywhere, unless you turn on Alert History (see below).

Motion

Wayside uses motion activity to detect when you start and stop driving, so alerts can switch on and off by themselves. Motion data is processed on the device and is not stored.

Live Activity

While you drive, Wayside can show your speed and the camera ahead on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island, where anyone holding your iPhone can see them. This information stays on your iPhone and is not sent anywhere. Live Activity can be turned off in Wayside's Settings.

Notifications

Alerts appear as notifications on the Lock Screen and in CarPlay, showing the camera type and how far away it is, where anyone holding your iPhone can see them. They can be turned off in Wayside's Settings.

Camera database

The community camera database is downloaded from getwayside.app, which rebuilds it every Sunday from the data Lufop.net publishes. As with any download, the request includes your IP address. No other information about you is sent.

Imported databases

If you subscribe to a camera database such as PocketGPSWorld, you can import its files in place of the community database. They are read and stored on your iPhone. Nothing from them is uploaded, and the provider is not told that you imported them.

While a PocketGPSWorld database is in use and Check for New Versions is on, Wayside fetches PocketGPSWorld's public release feed once a day to find the latest version, and tells you when a newer one is available. The PocketGPSWorld help article fetches the same feed when you open it, at most once each time the app is opened. As with any download, the request includes your IP address. It carries nothing about you or your import, and no cookie is kept. You can turn the daily check off on Camera Data.

Reported cameras and muted cameras

Cameras you report, cameras you edit and cameras you mute are stored on your iPhone, protected while your iPhone is locked, and excluded from your iPhone's backup to iCloud or a computer. They leave your iPhone only when you choose to export them or include them in a Wayside backup.

Alert History

If you turn on Alert History, Wayside keeps up to 200 recent alerts on your iPhone, including your speed, heading and the camera's position at the time. This history is protected while your iPhone is locked, excluded from your iPhone's backup to iCloud or a computer, and can be cleared at any time in Settings. It leaves your iPhone only if you choose to include it in a Wayside backup.

Backups

A backup is a file you create in Wayside's Settings and save wherever you choose. It holds your settings, your reported and edited cameras, and your muted cameras. Alert History is left out unless you turn on Include History before you create it. Where the file goes afterwards is up to you: Wayside does not send it anywhere and does not keep a copy.

If you turn on iCloud Backup, a copy of the same backup is kept in your own iCloud account, in a folder only Wayside can use, and it is updated when your settings, cameras or mutes change. Copies from the three most recent days it changed are kept beside it, so something you delete can still be restored. Apple stores it under Apple's privacy policy, and it is end-to-end encrypted if you use Advanced Data Protection. Wayside's developer cannot see it. Turning iCloud Backup off deletes every copy.

Support requests

Help › Contact Support in the app sends your message and your email address to the developer through iCloud, with the Diagnostics report if Include Diagnostics is on. The email address is used only to reply to you. The report describes your iPhone, your settings, your permissions, your recent alerts and any recent crashes or hangs of the app; it leaves out coordinates, camera identifiers and routes, and can be read in full before it is sent. Requests are stored in Wayside's iCloud database, where only the developer can read them, and are used only to answer you. CloudKit records a code for the iCloud account that sent the request; it does not give the developer your name or Apple Account email. Email Support in the app opens your mail app with a message addressed to hello@getwayside.app, and nothing is sent until you send it.

Maps

Maps are provided by Apple. When you open a map, the area you view is sent to Apple under Apple's privacy policy. Camera and journey data is not sent.

Purchases

Wayside Premium is purchased through the App Store. Wayside receives only the status of the purchase. Payment details are handled by Apple.

What Wayside does not do

• Wayside does not include analytics, advertising or tracking.
• Wayside does not create accounts. Contact Support asks for an email address so that you can be replied to, and it is used for nothing else.
• Wayside does not share any data with third parties.

Your choices

• Location and motion access can be changed at any time in the Settings app on your iPhone.
• Alert History can be turned off and cleared in Wayside's Settings.
• Live Activity can be turned off in Wayside's Settings.
• Notifications can be turned off in Wayside's Settings.
• Reported cameras can be deleted individually or all at once in Wayside's Settings.
• Muted cameras can be unmuted individually or all at once in Wayside's Settings.
• A backup includes Alert History only when you ask for it.
• Deleting the app removes all data Wayside stored on your iPhone.

Contact

Questions about this policy can be sent from Wayside, under Help › Contact Support, or emailed to hello@getwayside.app.

Changes

If this policy changes, the updated version will be published at this address with a new date.