Apple Releases iPadOS and iOS 13.5 With Exposure Notification API, Face ID Mask Updates, Group FaceTime Changes and More

[Phuz01]

The install seems to have stalled on my iPhone 11 Pro Max. The progress bar under the apple hasn't moved for almost 20 minutes.

 

[Tsepz]

My 11 Pro Max is updated, now for my iPad Air 2...

 

[Stromos]

Or for people like me who work in a building that has over 1000 people distributed across a massive main level, a 9 story tower, and other towers of varying numbers of levels. The people on my floor are totally cut off from the rest of the hospital. We even have our own dedicated entrance and exit. Depending on how the API classifies "close contact" really the only way a notification will be of any use to us...is if it was triggered because of someone on our floor. We are so cut off that someone from a different floor is basically zero risk to us. I can connect to bluetooth up to two floors above and below me. If, by that logic, two floors in either direction qualifies as "close contact"...we're going to have an issue!

You posted the same thing in two discussions. Read the documentation...
Part of the you have been in contact is the signal strength of the person you were exposed to. Not just a you had a bluetooth connection. Its you had a connection and it was weak/far away or strong/nearby.

 

[Spoonbender01]

Anyone know where the US CDC contract tracing app is for us Americans?

 

[gank41]

Or for people like me who work in a building that has over 1000 people distributed across a massive main level, a 9 story tower, and other towers of varying numbers of levels. The people on my floor are totally cut off from the rest of the hospital. We even have our own dedicated entrance and exit. Depending on how the API classifies "close contact" really the only way a notification will be of any use to us...is if it was triggered because of someone on our floor. We are so cut off that someone from a different floor is basically zero risk to us. I can connect to bluetooth up to two floors above and below me. If, by that logic, two floors in either direction qualifies as "close contact"...we're going to have an issue!

I think the distance that’ll be used for this API is around 6-10ft

 

[jbachandouris]

Your mail provider decides what is spam or not. The app can only move that one message; it is up to your provider's spam filter to lean that behavior.

You have to go to your provider's site and whitelist that email address. That's not a Mail app fault.

The provider is APPLE. It is the icloud account which THEY control. If I mark it as NOT JUNK on THEIR desktop program, it should learn!
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The install seems to have stalled on my iPhone 11 Pro Max. The progress bar under the apple hasn't moved for almost 20 minutes.

I had the same problem. Plug it into power and it will continue and then complete. At least that's what happened to me.

 

[LmH337]

But they still can’t fix the mail app issues...

Many many mail issues.

 

[hagjohn]

Has the beta been buggy or is it just due to the exposure thing you wait?

No, they believe in conspiracies.

 

[Rocko99991]

And this is the problem: not that the software API exists (and is making it's way to millions of devices), it's that the current administration is so good at sowing doubt into everything, that no one will trust it's use and effectiveness because their tinfoil hats tell them not to. For real, this is just an option in iOS (and Android) that allows ONLY OFFICIAL State or Government apps to utilize. I guarantee you all that whatever apps DO utilize this API will have more scrutiny and testing placed on them than almost any other iOS update before it. What you all should look out for are the apps that DON'T utilize this API, and I'm sure those apps will get lots of exposure on tech sites like this. Those are the apps your government officials want in place- the ones that track your every move and report this to whomever. This API is in place so that stuff doesn't happen. But, you can't fix stupid.

Anyone that questions the government or any authoritarian agencies motives wears a tinfoil hat. Which has the worst metallic taste? The hook, line or sinker?

 

[urnotl33t]

Wish I could get 12.4.7 for my original SE. :-/

 

[Joniz]

You know what I’ve been waiting for them to fix?

The Calculator app on the iPhone, so it’ll stop missing hits.

Been waiting a very long time.

 

[ConfusedChris]

So if my participating neighbour sleeps with his phone next to his bed (like me), and gets a notification, then I will get one too? Our devices are quite near, but there is a solid wall between us.
(I can see some of his Bluetooth devices in Settings.)
Perhaps apps will need to have settings for active/inactive hours.

 

[Wildkraut]

There were times I burned to install new iOS updates... since 1-2 years these updates got so boring and I don’t care anymore... I just wait till it popups nagging me...

 

[gank41]

Many many mail issues.

Yea, I'm definitely seeing a regression (again) in the Mail App. In all of the years I've been beta testing, at least since the iPhone 4 and the 2010MBP, I can't remember any core app like Mail.app that's had this many issues between official and beta releases. Running 13.4.1 has "spoiled me" it seems.. Was getting used to having my mailboxes across my iPhone, iPad, and Mac all updating with each other in MAYBE 2 or 3 seconds, if that..

And before anybody throws in the obligatory "Just use xxx instead!" comments, just note that I'm currently using 3 different mail apps (Apple Mail, Gmail, & Outlook) for 7 Email accounts. Gather 'round, let me tell you a little story about consistency...

 

[glowplug]

I think the distance that’ll be used for this API is around 6-10ft

RF energy is simply not that precise. This type of contact tracing is a fools errand because it is going to generate a crap-ton of false positives.

 

[urnotl33t]

You know what I’ve been waiting for them to fix?

The Calculator app on the iPhone, so it’ll stop missing hits.

Been waiting a very long time.

ok i thought maybe i was just my fatty fingers, or my display being grimey.... so that's really a bug? even a 3rd party app on my ipad mini [5th gen] misses hits, too. funny, because i see the 'missed' number is lit like i tapped on it (because i did) but it doesn't get registered. native iphone calculator app AND the 3rd party ipad app. very weird.
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RF energy is simply not that precise. This type of contact tracing is a fools errand because it will generate a crap-ton of false positives.

Check out ToF (time of flight) in recent radio chipsets. RSSI and the doppler shift is very reliable. That's what weather radars, military radars, and satellites use. We just now have tiny chipsets to do that same thing in a smaller package.

 

[Iconoclysm]

The virus is too widespread for this to be effective.

Nonsense, there are still over 320,000,000 people in the US who don't have the virus. If anything, it's needed more now than ever.

 

[gank41]

Anyone that questions the government or any authoritarian agencies motives wears a tinfoil hat. Which has the worst metallic taste? The hook, line or sinker?

This would be questioning Apple (or *gulp* Google?), though, right? Not a government or authoritarian agency. We have the choice to buy a phone if we want, and then choose what model phone, too. You could make a comparison to government, but then we'd have to vote on which phones we'd get? Would we all get Android phones even with the majority of the voters voting for iPhones? Or would it be the other way around.. I don't know. I'm bad with metaphors. Or maybe I'm not. Who knows! Anyway, tip your bartenders & servers and drive home safely.

 

[Iconoclysm]

Anyone that questions the government or any authoritarian agencies motives wears a tinfoil hat. Which has the worst metallic taste? The hook, line or sinker?

There's a difference between questioning and following a herd of people who believe the same stupid crap with no evidence.

 

[iDento]

This update might be late for COVID19, but for anyone who works in the medical field, this is very useful and saves time.

 

[citysnaps]

Are you guys really that paranoid?

Cracks me up that so many are!

 

[Mr. Awesome]

Updating now.

EDIT: Update complete.

 

[AbSoluTc]

Based on how many people I see who want no part of the exposure notification, I'm having my doubts as to what its effectiveness will be.

These same people, post every aspect of their life to Facebook. Go figure.

 

[mnsportsgeek]

Is everyone else getting “Not available in your region” when trying to activate exposure tracking? I’m in the US.

 

[Shirasaki]

what's next? Health Id's just like China?, puff...

https://www.wuv.de/var/wuv/storage/images/werben_verkaufen/agenturen/die_corona_ampel_ohne_gesundheits_app_kein_zutritt/9803061-4-ger-DE/die_corona_ampel_ohne_gesundheits_app_kein_zutritt6_gross.jpg

This health ID scenario will happen gradually around the world. “In the name of public safety, your privacy is no longer protected.”

get ready for your FB feeds to erupt with angry notes about "muh
freedom!" "bill gates!" "5g causes cancer! no really it's real this time 4g didnt do it but 5g will!" "vaccines!"

the conspiracy theories are gonna love this one xD

The sad part is general public gets swung like that very very easily. By the time those people realise what’s actually going on, damage is done. Good luck vaccinating 60% of US population if a vaccine is developed and tested.