Frequently asked questions

Yes. SpeedShield is not a radar detector and detects nothing. It reads the camera locations that each city publishes on its own website and speaks them aloud as you approach, the same information printed on the city's signs and maps. The alert is a reminder to drive the posted limit at the place the city has decided speed matters most.

No. Your location is used on the phone, while you drive, to compare your position against the camera list, and it never leaves the phone. There is no account, no login and no server that receives trips. Apple's App Store privacy label for SpeedShield reads “Data Not Collected.” Payments go through the App Store and Google Play.

Every active photo-enforcement program in the Phoenix metro: Phoenix, Tempe, Scottsdale, Paradise Valley, Chandler and Mesa, more than 80 fixed camera locations plus Phoenix’s rotating school-zone cameras with their published dates. The full list by city is at getspeedshield.com/cameras.

The night the city posts it. SpeedShield checks each city’s official camera page every night and compares it with the night before. When Phoenix added a Northern Avenue camera in September 2026, the app carried it the same night, and every phone picked it up on its own within hours. No app update is needed for a camera change.

Yes. Alerts are spoken through whatever your phone’s audio is routed to: CarPlay, Android Auto, Bluetooth, or the phone’s own speaker. It runs behind your navigation app, so Maps or Waze stay on screen. For the most reliable start on CarPlay, use the one-time Shortcuts setup under Settings › Start with CarPlay.

No. Connect to your car’s Bluetooth and SpeedShield arms itself. You can also choose auto-detect, which starts when you reach driving speed, or always-on. It goes quiet when the car is parked.

Phoenix citations start at $250. On corridor cameras the system flags vehicles at 11 mph or more over the posted limit; in school zones it flags 5 mph over the 15 mph limit. A photo citation can also carry points and insurance consequences, which is the larger cost for anyone who drives for a living. Source: City of Phoenix Photo Safety.

$2.99 a month or $19.99 a year, after a 7-day free trial. No account is needed. Subscriptions are managed through the App Store or Google Play and can be cancelled any time.

Only what cities publish. Phoenix publishes its school-zone camera rotation with dates, and those are included for exactly those dates. No Valley city publishes the locations of its mobile units, so SpeedShield does not guess at them.

Proposition 319, on the November 2026 ballot, would bar new photo-enforcement programs and require existing ones to win voter approval in 2027 or shut down. SpeedShield follows what each city actually operates: cameras that are switched off come off the list the night the city removes them, and the app keeps working for every camera that remains. Source: Arizona Mirror voter guide.