McAfee Safe Wi-Fi is an Android app developed by McAfee Innovations (McAfee Inc., Headquaters 2821 Mission College Blvd. Santa clara CA 95054 USA).

McAfee Safe Wi-Fi first became available on 21 May 2015. It is estimated that McAfee Safe Wi-Fi has been downloaded between 100000 and 500000 times from the Play Store.

McAfee Safe Wi-Fi 1.1.2.276 requires the following permissions:

Allows an app to access approximate location. Alternatively, you might want ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION.

Allows an app to access precise location. Alternatively, you might want ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION.

Allows applications to access information about networks.

Allows applications to access information about Wi-Fi networks.

Allows applications to change Wi-Fi connectivity state.

Allows applications to open network sockets.

Allows an application to read from external storage.

Allows an application to receive the ACTION_BOOT_COMPLETED that is broadcast after the system finishes booting. If you don't request this permission, you will not receive the broadcast at that time. Though holding this permission does not have any security implications, it can have a negative impact on the user experience by increasing the amount of time it takes the system to start and allowing applications to have themselves running without the user being aware of them. As such, you must explicitly declare your use of this facility to make that visible to the user.

Permission an application must hold in order to use ACTION_REQUEST_IGNORE_BATTERY_OPTIMIZATIONS. This is a normal permission: an app requesting it will always be granted the permission, without the user needing to approve or see it.

Allows an application to write to external storage.