The short answer: App Tracking Transparency is Apple's rule that an app must ask your permission before tracking you across other companies' apps and websites, usually to target advertising. Steady Pace never shows that prompt, because it does no tracking of any kind. It reads no advertising identifier, joins no ad networks, and makes no network connections, so there is nothing to track you with and nothing to ask permission for. The most private answer to a tracking prompt is an app that never needs to show one.
What the prompt asks
When an app shows the "Ask App Not to Track" prompt, it wants to follow you beyond itself, linking what you do here to your activity in other apps and on the web, typically through Apple's advertising identifier. The app was built to track. Many running apps show that prompt because advertising and analytics are part of their business.
Steady Pace does not show it
Steady Pace has no advertising and no analytics, and it makes no network connections. It has no use for the advertising identifier and no way to send tracking data anywhere. Nothing leaves the device. The feature the prompt governs does not exist in the app.
| Steady Pace | An ad-supported app | |
|---|---|---|
| Shows the tracking prompt | Never | Often |
| Reads the advertising identifier | No | Commonly |
| Tracks you across other apps | No | Yes, by design |
| Sends data to ad networks | No network connections at all | Yes |
Steady Pace does no tracking, reads no ad identifier, and sends nothing anywhere.
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App Store privacy label
Data Not Collected, on the same listing.
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No ads
The reason there is no identifier to read.
California
CCPA and CPRA
No sharing for targeted ads, either.
Does Steady Pace track me across other apps?
No. It does no tracking at all, reads no advertising identifier, and makes no network connections, so there is nothing to link across apps and nothing to send anywhere.
Will I see the "Ask App Not to Track" prompt?
No. That prompt appears only when an app wants to track you. Steady Pace never wants to, so it never shows it.
Why do other running apps show the prompt?
Because advertising and analytics are part of how many of them make money, and both rely on tracking. Steady Pace has neither, so the feature the prompt governs does not exist in it.
How can I confirm this?
Run the app in airplane mode: it works exactly the same, which is only possible because it sends nothing, including any tracking data. You can also read its App Store privacy label, which shows Data Not Collected.