How to Use This Tool
Estimate owner verification across third-party SDKs before an Apple platform release. An app team owns store declarations for integrated code but may not reserve time to trace every SDK's data behavior and supplied documentation.
Why SDK Privacy Audit needs more than a raw total
SDK count multiplied by evidence-review time creates a minimum workload before discrepancies, missing manifests or code changes are addressed. For this page, the useful comparison is sdk audit workload, not whichever input happens to be largest. The SDK Privacy Audit result answers the decision in the heading and should not be reused as a score for a different workflow.
The exact SDK Privacy Audit formula
Audit hours equal third-party SDKs in scope multiplied by average evidence-review minutes, divided by 60. The visible fields are Third-party SDKs in scope and Average evidence review time. For SDK Privacy Audit, read each printed unit before entry and make the values describe one transaction, cohort or reporting window. If those scopes differ, the displayed sdk audit workload may be arithmetically valid but operationally meaningless.
Interpreting sdk audit workload
Inventory shipped SDK versions, compare vendor documentation with observed use and escalate uncertain data collection to qualified privacy and engineering owners. The ten-percent comparison is deliberately narrow: it tests the influence of third-party sdks in scope and is neither a forecast nor a confidence interval. Preserve the values used, their dates and the resulting decision so a later reviewer can reproduce why SDK Privacy Audit supported the choice.
What this SDK Privacy Audit model leaves out
This does not determine compliance or inspect binaries; it excludes first-party code, remediation, legal review and changing Apple requirements. That is where SDK Privacy Audit stops being trustworthy. If an excluded factor could reverse sdk audit workload, extend the model explicitly or use the authoritative account system instead of hiding the factor inside an unexplained adjustment.
Evidence and independent verification
The reference reviewed for SDK Privacy Audit is Apple Developer — Manage app privacy. Apple Developer — Manage app privacy supports the named definition or rule but does not supply private values for sdk audit workload. Before acting on the result, reconcile the worked example with the relevant dashboard, invoice, export or measurement.
Private, reproducible calculation
SDK Privacy Audit runs its arithmetic in the current browser tab and requests no login or API key. That keeps the SDK Privacy Audit inputs away from the site's calculation server, while leaving the user responsible for detecting stale data or a changed platform rule. When an assumption changes, reopen Apple Developer — Manage app privacy and rerun the saved SDK Privacy Audit scenario.
Sources & assumptions
Tool Spec v2 · verified 2026-08-22. Platform rules and fees can change; the editable inputs remain authoritative for your account.
Official references
- Apple Developer — Manage app privacy (checked 2026-08-22)
Model assumptions
- Every input covers the same reporting period or cohort.
- This does not determine compliance or inspect binaries; it excludes first-party code, remediation, legal review and changing Apple requirements.
- The calculator uses only the visible fields and does not fetch account data.
