Verified local health and safety information, plain guidance and nearby resources. Follow the places you care about, and help keep your community safe.
Stay informed. Help your community.
PHapp® AZ puts verified local health and safety information in one place. Follow the places where you live, work and have family, and see what's happening there, from extreme heat and wildfire smoke to outbreaks and food recalls.
You can also share what you see. Report a problem or a local condition to Hub AI in your own language to help keep your community safe.
PHapp AZ is free, and you don't need an account to read it. There are no ads, we don't sell your data, and we don't track you.
STAY INFORMED
Follow towns, cities, counties and ZIP codes. Your feed covers:
• Health and disease
• Weather and severe storms
• Heat, wildfire and air quality
• Food, medicine and product recalls
• Health advisories
• Hazards and emergencies
• Public safety
• Local resources and services
KNOW WHERE IT CAME FROM
Every item names the agency that published it and the community it applies to, so you can always see why it reached you.
HELP YOUR COMMUNITY
Seen a flooded road, a closed cooling center or something else your neighbors should know about? Tell Hub AI (Research Preview). Your report goes privately to the Hub team, who can follow up.
Know a useful local resource that's missing? Suggest it. An agency checks every suggestion before it shows up.
FIND LOCAL RESOURCES
Look up nearby cooling and warming centers, shelters, naloxone, vaccination sites and food, wherever your community lists them.
WHAT TO DO, NOT JUST WHAT HAPPENED
Many topics come with plain steps for before, during and after an event.
YOUR LANGUAGE
PHapp AZ works in more than 50 languages.
YOU DECIDE WHAT REACHES YOU
Pick the places and topics you care about, and which of them send you notifications.
NO ACCOUNT NEEDED
You can read PHapp AZ and get notifications on this device without an account, an email address or a phone number. Sign in when you want to personalize it or add another way to reach you.
SHARE WITH ANYONE
Send any item by text, email or group chat. The person you send it to can open it on the web without installing anything or signing in.
PRIVACY
No ads. We don't sell your data or track you. Location is optional, and you can find your community by name or ZIP code instead.
WHERE THE INFORMATION COMES FROM
PHapp AZ is not a government app. Government agencies use PHapp AZ to share information, work with community partners and respond to the people they serve. Most of what you see comes from public agencies such as the National Weather Service (weather.gov), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (cdc.gov), the Food and Drug Administration (fda.gov), the Department of Agriculture (usda.gov), and state, county and city agencies.
IMPORTANT
PHapp AZ is not an emergency service. It does not replace 911, Wireless Emergency Alerts (WEA), IPAWS or EAS, and we can't guarantee that every notification arrives. In an emergency, call 911.
WHO BUILDS IT
Hub Public Benefit Corp. builds and runs PHapp® AZ together with the University of Arizona, the Arizona Department of Health Services and the Government of Bermuda. Hub PBC is a NOAA Weather-Ready Nation Ambassador™.
Weather-Ready Nation (WRN) Ambassador™ and the WRN Ambassador™ logo are trademarks of the U.S. Department of Commerce and NOAA, used with permission.
Learn more at https://ph.app
To those who wrote reviews to this app. This was created for something far more complex. By my recollection, it was created in Arizona State University. Or one of them schools in the South West part of the United States, and was created I don’t know if it’s by criminology students or students in law school, but it was turned into a spy app for criminals. Dealing with your Bluetooth proximity. That’s pretty much really all I’m going to say for now anyways, until I find out a little more about it. I guess I should back that up and correct myself. It’s creation may not of been created by students for this purpose, but that’s what it was turned into. And I know that for a fact. But I’ve yet to experiment with the app. So I’m blind to its functions, strong points, or weak points. To give it a reasonable review, I’m not going to bash it’s head in for now. I’ll give it a four.
Needs Improvement
stellarays
I love the concept of this app, but I don’t think it was ready for release. To begin with, it is very unclear what the risk level ranking is out of (10?), as well as what that actually means. Each time I have been exposed it’s been ranked as a “6” with no further information. That seems like a high risk level, and yet no suggestions for next steps were made available as promised. Is 6 actually quite low? Friends who have had the same exposure times have much lower risk levels. Why is mine so high? Additionally, the notifications are very confusing. I got a notification on Sunday (8/31) that I had had no exposures during the week. Then on Monday night (9/1) I got an alert that I had been exposed... on 8/27 and 8/28. Today I got another notification for an exposure on 8/28. I am wary of these alerts because they all look exactly the same (risk level and time exposed). Are they accurate? Is it a bug? The time exposed seems inaccurate as well. For all three of my “exposures” the times are listed as: “0min, 0min, 3min, 0min” in that exact order. My friends have the same for different supposed exposures on different dates. This app needs more information and more clarity.
Developer Response
Thanks for your feedback! All of these issues are resolved. For any further help, please submit a ticket at https://help.wehealth.org/ and our support team will follow-up right away.
Can’t report; confusing setup
MA fan
First of all, I had no idea AZ had this - have never heard a peep about it, and the last time I checked, AZ was not on the list. I discovered it when I was poking around the exposure notification settings on my phone. Without participants, this isn’t very useful, so AZ should be talking this up every opportunity! Including having the governor mention it in his pressers, as well as other leaders like school superintendents.Second, setup was confusing. The Settings app says my region (Arizona) has an app and directs me to a list of apps on the App Store, where this one is *not* included. I had to find it by doing a general search, and then it doesn’t say explicitly in the description that it relies on the Apple/Google system, which I wanted to be sure because otherwise I likely wouldn’t use it for privacy reasons. I couldn’t confirm it until I got it installed and saw the integration. Get the app properly listed on the App Store list, and make the Apple connection clear in the app description. Finally, I can’t tell the app that there’s been a positive diagnosis. Fortunately, I don’t need to, but without that, the value is significantly reduced. Why is this not included? And who in my area (Phoenix/Scottsdale) can report? Anyone?
Developer Response
Hello, currently, we have two active regions, the University of Arizona (UA) and Northern Arizona University (NAU). We are currently in the process of working with the State of Arizona so the app can be fully used by everyone in the State! If you have any feedback or suggestions, please write to us at https://help.wehealth.org/hc/en-us.
Love the idea, but…
McManduh
I love this concept but I only happened to stumble upon this when I was in the settings for my iPhone looking for something else entirely. I was pretty excited that an app was available but I haven’t gotten any notifications and I work at a hospital. So either there haven’t been very many downloads (which makes this practically useless) or there are bugs that need fixing. I have a feeling it’s a little bit of both. So please work on fixing the bugs and then please, please, please work on getting the word out there to the public that this app exists in AZ!!
Developer Response
Thanks for the kind review. At that time app promotion was limited to a pilot with participating universities but now it's available statewide and it works. Also recently the app supports self-report, removing the barrier to having lab tests and verification codes to notify others. We have a rigorous QA process and the server stats show continued and increasing use. We hope you still have it installed.
• Completely redesigned, with lots of new features
• Follow ZIP codes, towns and cities, or use your location, for more relevant local information
• Chat with Hub AI in your language for answers or to report a problem (Research Preview)
• Video library with a full-screen player
• Resources tab for finding cooling centers, shelters, naloxone and more
• Fixes and improvements
Version 4.12.0
The developer, University of Arizona, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Linked to You
The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
Contact Info
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
Location
Identifiers
Usage Data
Diagnostics
Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More
The developer indicated that this app supports the following accessibility features. Learn More
