Privacy Policy

Last updated: August 12, 2026 — applies to the MagicPing app on iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV, and Apple Watch, and to this website.

Summary

Data the App Processes

MagicPing only processes the information you enter yourself to manage your computers:

• computer name, IP address, MAC address, and port settings
• optional: SSH username, SSH port, and shutdown command for shutting down over SSH
• optional: the SSH password

This data stays on your devices. Computer names, addresses, and settings are synced between your own devices via iCloud (CloudKit) — in the private iCloud database of your Apple Account, which the developer cannot access. The SSH password is stored exclusively in the iCloud Keychain and is never written to the CloudKit database.

On Apple TV, MagicPing merely displays the computer list synced via iCloud; no additional data is collected there.

Network Access

MagicPing communicates only within your own network:

• Wake-on-LAN packets ("magic packets") to the computers you added
• reachability checks (TCP connection attempts) to the addresses you added
• SSH connections to your computers when you use the shutdown feature

The app never connects to servers operated by the developer or by third parties. iCloud sync is handled by Apple and is subject to Apple's Privacy Policy and your iCloud settings.

This Website

This website is a static page with no cookies and no third-party services. When you access it, the web server technically processes your device's IP address in order to deliver the page (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR); it is not linked to any profile.

For audience measurement this website uses a self-hosted Umami instance (analytics.weigand.in). Umami works without cookies, does not store full IP addresses, and builds no cross-device profiles; it records anonymous metrics such as pages viewed, country of origin, and browser type. All data stays entirely on the operator's own server and is never shared with third parties (legal basis: legitimate interest in privacy-preserving audience measurement, Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR).

Deleting Your Data

You can delete any computer in the app at any time; this also removes the synced data from your private iCloud database and deletes the associated SSH password from the keychain. Uninstalling the app removes the device's local data.

Your Rights

Since the developer does not collect or store any personal data about you, there is no data the developer could disclose, rectify, port, or erase (Art. 15–20 GDPR). If you have any privacy questions, feel free to use the contact below.

Changes to This Policy

If MagicPing's functionality changes in a way that affects how data is processed, this policy will be updated and the date above revised.

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