Verizon Cloud gives you space for your digital world, so you can easily backu…
Verizon Consumer GroupSome warnings 1 confirmed warning. Checked: 400 reviews, the Android app’s code, the store listing and the privacy label.
From our automated analysis, 25 Oct 2026. Every label links to its evidence in the full report below.
This analysis describes version 25.2.12 of the app (the version number recorded inside the package we inspected), analyzed 2026-10-25 .
The store currently lists version 26.10.10, updated 2026-09-22.
Store screenshots supplied by the developer.
Verizon Cloud gives you space for your digital world, so you can easily backup and access your photos, videos and documents securely and privately. Keep your content handy on your mobile devices, access it when you need it from your smartphone/tablet and computer and easily transfer content when changing devices.*
The Verizon Cloud app lets you:
- Enjoy unlimited storage across unlimited compatible devices (with our Unlimited Individual or Unlimited Group plan, shareable by up to 5 users).*
- Share your content easily with family and friends using your favorite apps.
- Share storage with up to 5 users on compatible devices with our Unlimited Group plan.…
From the developer’s store description.
For developers and the curious
The evidence, sources, measurements and versions behind every label above.
Findings that met the published evidence standard.
The store privacy disclosure (2 entries) names no tracking or advertising use, but the package ships 2 advertising/tracking SDKs: Adjust, Mixpanel
Tracking or advertising SDKs are present in the package that the store's own privacy disclosure does not account for.
Facts that add context without being a charge.
Requests 13 sensitive permissions (ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION, ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION, CAMERA, READ_CALENDAR, READ_CALL_LOG, READ_CONTACTS, READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE, READ_MEDIA_IMAGES, READ_PHONE_NUMBERS, READ_PHONE_STATE, READ_SMS, RECEIVE_SMS, RE…
The package requests substantially more of the device's sensitive permissions than the typical app in its category. This is a measurement, not an accusation: a permission is granted because a feature needs it, and a wide request list is a reason to look rather than a finding on its own.
Package artefact
Appworthy
sha256:15be9c058af29eaaffd444fc304bc4cb962b6913c237ca82ce0505dd143eda13Specific evidence of a useful property, within the stated scope.
No advertising or mediation SDK among the 4 SDKs detected in the package
No advertising or mediation SDK of any kind was found in the package.
Package artefact
sha256:15be9c058af29eaaffd444fc304bc4cb962b6913c237ca82ce0505dd143eda13Open observations that have not cleared the evidence bar.
Ships session-recording SDK (Instabug) that can replay on-screen activity
This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.
The app ships session-recording or a wide tracking stack, holds permissions that read personal data, or is reported by users to sell, leak or over-collect it. The evidence line says which of those was observed.
Package artefact
sha256:15be9c058af29eaaffd444fc304bc4cb962b6913c237ca82ce0505dd143eda13The app's own text says: "Please sign in with your email address and select a payment option to start backing up your content."
This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.
The free trial demands a payment method up front and/or rolls into a paid subscription with no usable warning.
Package artefact
sha256:15be9c058af29eaaffd444fc304bc4cb962b6913c237ca82ce0505dd143eda13The app's own text says: "Go to My Verizon to make changes to your Cloud plan. Then, come back here and select “I changed my plan” to refresh the page."
This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.
Cancelling the subscription is blocked, hidden, multi-step, or simply does not take effect.
Package artefact
sha256:15be9c058af29eaaffd444fc304bc4cb962b6913c237ca82ce0505dd143eda13The app's own text says: "Upgrade your plan to have full library access."
This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.
The core of the app — not extras — sits behind payment, or previously-free function moved behind a paywall.
Package artefact
sha256:15be9c058af29eaaffd444fc304bc4cb962b6913c237ca82ce0505dd143eda13Purchase screen steers the choice: "Best value"
This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.
The purchase screen arrives with one plan already framed as the recommended or most popular choice, so the default is the app's preference rather than the user's. We do not compare the plans' prices, and only the app's own text evidences this, so it is shown, but never counted as a charge.
Package artefact
sha256:15be9c058af29eaaffd444fc304bc4cb962b6913c237ca82ce0505dd143eda13The app's own text says: "Private Folder Welcome-Empty"
This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.
The app's own screens offer a way past sign-up — guest access, skipping, or browsing before registering — rather than gating the product behind an account. The store's privacy disclosure is checked alongside it: that disclosure is self-reported, so it corroborates this credit rather than establishing it.
Package artefact
sha256:15be9c058af29eaaffd444fc304bc4cb962b6913c237ca82ce0505dd143eda13The app's own text says: "Application can not run in off-line mode. Please connect to the server first."
This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.
The app's own copy describes working without a connection — offline mode, downloading for offline use, or content saved for later. Shown because readers filter on it; it is a feature, not a fairness property, and never counts for or against an app.
Package artefact
sha256:15be9c058af29eaaffd444fc304bc4cb962b6913c237ca82ce0505dd143eda13No review-based observation is published in this assessment. That does not establish that reviewers had no problems.
“Not assessed” means we could not measure it. It is never a zero and never a pass.
Android package 25.2.12, scanned 25 Oct 2026. These describe that package, not the current store version.
Supporting measurements: not a complete list of possible harms or positives. Measurement vocabulary 1.4 · how these are measured
This analysis describes version 25.2.12 of the app (the version number recorded inside the package we inspected), analyzed 2026-10-25 .
The store currently lists version 26.10.10, updated 2026-09-22.
Each store’s release notes, as the developer wrote them. They are the developer’s words, not ours.
No release notes were provided for this version.
verizon-cloud-google-com-vcast-mediamanagerAssessed 2026-10-25 from 400 user reviews, the app's package, the store listing and its privacy label.
What the stores publish. Store ratings are the stores’ numbers, not Appworthy’s, and are never averaged across stores.
No itemized purchase list is available for this listing.
This assessment is produced automatically. Six independent signals are read — user reviews, SDKs in the app package, the app's own on-screen text, the app manifest, the store listing and the store privacy disclosure — and each candidate finding is filed under the sources that support it.
No charge stands on one kind of evidence — with one published exception. A finding is either a measured fact that anyone can reproduce (an ad SDK is in the package; every subscription bills weekly; the privacy label omits a tracker we can see), or it is an interpretation — and an interpretation needs independent sources to agree before it reaches the catch list. The exception is a harm only users can see: a charge may publish from reviews alone, as “Reported by N users”, once enough reviewers raise it to clear that charge’s own published bar. That agreement rule is what replaced the human reviewer, not a model’s confidence.
There is no overall score, on purpose. A 0–99 number was published here until 2026-09-15. It was withdrawn because it discriminated too weakly to be the instrument — 44.7% of every pair of apps tied — and because a single number is a verdict where a count is an observation. What publishes instead is a row of measurements, each of which says what was counted and, where we could not look, says that instead.
Findings under One source only are real reports we do not stand behind as findings. They are shown because withholding them entirely would hide a genuine complaint, and labelled because publishing them as charges would be an accusation off a single source.
Write to [email protected], or use the form. Name the finding, the app version and the evidence that needs correcting. Factual corrections are free and never depend on buying anything.