What Plain Air reads, and what it talks to
It talks only to your router, your Mac’s DNS server and Apple, and nothing comes to us.
- Your Wi-Fi: the signal, noise, channel, band, link rate and security, read from macOS on your Mac.
- Networks nearby: their channel, width and strength. Never their names.
- Your network’s name: only if you allow Location. Plain Air never asks where you are. Why Plain Air asks about Location
- Your router’s hardware address: turned straight into a salted hash, to tell your networks apart. Never stored, shown or sent.
- What it talks to: your router (small pings), your Mac’s DNS server (a few name lookups) and Apple’s check page,
captive.apple.com. Apple’s speed test runs only when you press Test Speed. - Us: no account, no analytics, no server of ours. Nothing comes to us, and nothing is collected.
- Your Mac and router: Plain Air never changes a setting, never logs in to your router, and never looks for other devices on your network.
Your settings, earlier checks and the watch log stay on your Mac.