I'm still waiting for the release that tells me when I'm too close to idiots...
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Apple Releases iPadOS and iOS 13.5 With Exposure Notification API, Face ID Mask Updates, Group FaceTime Changes and More
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We have different definitions of “bricked” or “every single”.
This is only available on iPhones correct? Seems tied to the Health app which isn't available on the iPad
The exposure notification part, yes, that's only iPhone. I wish I took screenshots of the full release notes, because exposure notifications were NOT the only differences between iOS and iPadOS. iPadOS mentioned something about Mail that I don't recall seeing on the iOS one, for instance.
Since Covid-19 is so widespread, trying to track it through contacts is virtually impossible (the number of permutations of people encountering others is astronomical) (i.e. too many data possibilities to make use of).
This is actually good for use in future pandemics when they are just getting started.
The update made you reset your HomePod. Anyone who updated got a white spinning light at the top of their HomePod. To resolve it you had to unplug your HomePod. After plugging it back in it would brick.
Part of me wants to update especially the mask Face ID. Other like exposure, hard no.
The background Bluetooth scanning and broadcasts would not have been allowed for a normal app. That's why the new APIs had to be developed, to do things outside what normal applications could do. The app bring piloted by the UK seems to be suffering from this.
That said, you still need an app that implements this functionality. This just provides a way for those (currently unavailable) apps to do what they need to do. This OS update does not do anything related to exposure notifications by itself.
Not really, since this also factors in distance from a virus carrier, and amount of time spent in proximity to that carrier. You might have dozens or hundreds of people you see on a daily basis... but that number goes way down when you only consider the number of people you are physically near for a significant amount of time.
And like many people in this thread and elsewhere, you're letting the perfect be the enemy of the good. Even if only a very small number of people who get a "heads up" that they could be potentially positive go and get themselves isolated until they get tested, that reduces the number of "carriers" wandering out and about infecting others.
Are you sure it's really turned off?
A much preferred method would have been to simply have the api come with the tracking apps or make it a separate download, bundling it into a major ios update is shady and makes me question their motives.
13.5 destroyed my Face ID. I get a "Face ID Is Not Available" Try setting up Face ID Later.
A restart did not fix it. I can't set up Face ID.
Any ideas ?
Thanks
A restart did not fix it. I can't set up Face ID.
Any ideas ?
Thanks
That is incorrect. Most of the time the spinning white light came after the reset. I know this update effected some people's Homepods, but not everyone's and was not as wide spread as you make it sound. I know this because I applied that update without issue (and followed the thread that covered this issue here on MR), so please stop trying to make it sound like it bricked every Homepod.
The Australian contact tracing app is not using the API and likely won’t because they want a centralised database that they can see and control. Hence a hard pass for me.
I’m not worried about this opt-in API particularly, but I am concerned about Apple artificially slowing my device as it ages. They’ve been guilty before.
I’m not worried about this opt-in API particularly, but I am concerned about Apple artificially slowing my device as it ages. They’ve been guilty before.
You don't know what an API is, do you?
Also, by your logic, who's to say the previous update, or iOS 11, or iphone OS 1.0 didnt have this already baked in, and you've been using it for all these years, and now apple knows what type of porn you watch 😲
im equally ready for the deluge of bootlickers!
It could have prevented lots of deaths, yes, but it's still useful now. Needed for reopening the economy safely.
There are going to be all kinds of apps using this API. Will they all talk nicely to each other? I assume that all of the data about encounters will be held in the device and the apps will just compare the health status of all devices with which your device has had a close encounter. I wonder if the phone needs an app to start collecting data ... or maybe the data collection begins as soon as you turn on Exposure Logging.
This.
I am over updating.
Sick of my battery and speed being wiped out over and over again for zero real increase in functionality.
After all these years I’m finally done with updating.
We're identifying more infections because of testing. Most people don't even know they fought it off. The important thing is mortality, and also delta of the number of deaths from previous years. Take your Zinc and your Vitamin D!