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No. It is not always listening. Outside the masjid the microphone is deaf; inside the masjid but outside the prayer window it is deaf. It is used by three features: Masjid Mode (broadcasting), Record Athan, and Ask by voice in the car — and none of them opens it until you turn it on or ask.

Turning the switch on is the consent, and you turn it on once — you do not start each session. On the automatic setting the microphone can open only when two things are both true: you are inside a masjid, and it is a prayer window; no coordinate is transmitted by that check. Inside those two, the phone opens the microphone by itself at the iqama, with nothing pressed — on iPhone and on Android alike — and it never opens while the phone is moving at driving speed. If you do not want that, use the manual setting, where nothing opens until you press Start. Before a broadcast starts, the sound is recognised by the phone’s own speech recogniser where it has one, and otherwise by Apple’s speech service; our servers receive sound only during a broadcast. Audio leaves your phone only while a broadcast is running, a visible indicator shows you the whole time, and turning the switch off ends the broadcast. With the Record switch on, a broadcast is recorded and shelved in «مئذنة» inside the app, where other people can play it. Details are in our privacy policy.

For prayer times and qibla. Both are calculated with precise astronomy directly on your device — your coordinates are not sent to a server for them, and they keep working offline and in flight. Finding the masajid near you sends your position to our masjid record, and the weather on the Home screen sends it to our weather provider.

If you enable Masjid Mode, location is also used (on the device) to check that you are actually inside a masjid before the broadcast feature can activate. A broadcast carries the masjid’s name and the masjid’s position, not yours. If you never enable Masjid Mode, background location is never requested.

When someone at a masjid has Masjid Mode on and the call to prayer begins, their phone shares that live audio with the community — so a neighbor at home, someone in a hospital, or family far away can hear the real athan from the real place, the moment it happens.

As a listener, just open the app and see which masjids are live right now, then tap to listen. The stream is live — the athan, the iqama, the salat, the Friday khutbah and the dars as they happen.

One thing we used to promise and no longer do: that conversation in the gaps between those phases is filtered out. It is not. While the broadcast runs, the microphone stays open until the person who started it ends it, and whatever is said in the room in that time is carried to the listeners and kept in the recording exactly as they heard it. If something should not leave the room, the broadcast is ended.

A way to capture your own call to prayer and keep it in your personal library on the device. Your recordings stay on your phone — nothing is uploaded unless you explicitly choose to share one.

On the listening screen, tap the flag icon to report the broadcast — you can tell us it wasn't the call to prayer, was inappropriate, or was just noise. You can also hide that masjid from your live list entirely. Reports reach us and are read. There is no automatic filter on what a broadcast carries — see “How does live broadcasting work?” above — so the report and the hide control are what you have, and they work.

Yes — completely free. No ads, no subscriptions, no in-app purchases, no accounts, and your data is never sold (there's almost none to sell — most features run entirely on your device). There is no catch. Live Athan is free, for everyone.