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Apple Seeds Fourth Betas of iOS and iPadOS 13.5 to Developers With Exposure Notification API, Face ID Mask Updates and More
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And it’s still widely debated if contact tracing with an app is going to do any good, which I believe was the OP’s point.
But it clearly isn't virtue signalling since it's action oriented, which is my point. The exposure notification is an api, something Apple did. Agree or disagree with the implementation, help or not help that is not the definition of "virtue signalling". Bigger forces than us there at MR are at work and OP is welcome to their point of view. However, the use of the made-up word, "virtue signalling" is starting to approach meme status.
Apple today seeded the fourth betas of upcoming iOS and iPadOS 13.5 updates to developers, one week after seeding the third betas and over a month after releasing iOS and iPadOS 13.4 with iCloud Folder Sharing, iPad trackpad support, and more.
iOS and ??iPadOS?? 13.5 can be downloaded from the Apple Developer center or over the air after the proper developer profile has been installed.
iOS and iPadOS 13.5 introduce the exposure notification API designed by Apple and Google, which is designed to allow public health authorities to create COVID-19 contact tracing apps that are meant to slow the spread of the virus.
The API Apple has introduced is for health-related apps that will incorporate the new API, but there is a toggle in the Settings app that is designed to allow users to opt out of participating in COVID-19 exposure notifications.
Along with laying the ground work for the exposure notification API and accompanying apps, iOS 13.5 makes it easier to unlock an iPhone with a passcode when wearing a mask, as many people are wearing face coverings at the current time.
With the update, the passcode interface pops up more quickly when an iPhone detects that a mask is obscuring the face after a user swipes upward, so it's quicker to get into an iPhone using a passcode than before.
There's also a tweak to Group FaceTime, with Apple introducing a new toggle to disable the feature that automatically enlarges the tile of the person who is speaking. By default, Group FaceTime has a dynamic view with a tile for each person, and the person speaking has a larger tile while other tiles fade into the background.
An "Automatic Prominence" section in the FaceTime portion of the Settings app allows this to be disabled, displaying all of the people using FaceTime in a grid with equal-sized windows regardless of who is talking. A tile can be enlarged with a tap.
Earlier betas have introduced a new Apple Music feature that allows Apple Music songs to be shared on Instagram Stories. Tapping the Share button on a song in Apple Music creates a story with a song title, album name, and animated background, but at this time there is no way to get to Apple Music from the shared information.
iOS 13.5 also patches two security vulnerabilities that affect the Mail app on the iPhone and the iPad. One vulnerability allowed an attacker to remotely infect an iOS device by sending emails that consume a significant amount of memory, while another allowed remote code executions.
The update may also address an issue with Personal Hotspot that prevents it from working for some people and it could also fix a VPN-related vulnerability, both of which are bugs that Apple has promised to address in upcoming iOS updates.
Article Link: Apple Seeds Fourth Betas of iOS and iPadOS 13.5 to Developers With Exposure Notification API, Face ID Mask Updates and More [Update: Public Beta Available]
Spotify keep crashing on my iPhone after update
Install the public beta and there are more errors than the common ones, the following apps cannot be opened: Spotify, Call of Duty, World of Tanks, I hope Apple will solve them as soon as possible. Could you tell me how to go back to a previous version of the software, thanks. Excuse me for my grammar I am learning.
Not trying to incite anything, but tell it like it is. Businesses are supposed to be opening up again soon; including Apple store locations, and Apple is releasing an opt-out built-in tracking mechanism?
I don't know how people aren't wise to this ... anyways, interesting technology anyhow.
I don't know how people aren't wise to this ... anyways, interesting technology anyhow.
... it's opt-in.
Good to know; that’s good. I was under the impression it would be opt out after the software upgrade was complete
Is it something that was broken in previous betas or earlier version? I always encode my own MP4 files using Handbrake, load it up using iTunes and play it in TV app. Works fine on iPhone and iPad as of 13.4.1.
The point is you find out you're infected, report it in the app and people who made contact with you in the past can be notified. Of course if you have CODIV you're not supposed to wander around, but many people have little or no symptoms at all, so they have no idea they're infected before taking the test.
Big YESSS on Music instagram stories. Can’t wrap my mind around how it has taken this much time to implement.
I’m sure no groups of people will use this to scare people with false reports or for their own entertainment. Enjoy your Zik Zak software.
You'd need a fake doctor's report and/or a fake QR code to scan. Might as well just do what other idiots are doing, and walk around saying you have the virus while coughing at people.
Apple's Contact Tracing System Will Require Verification When Users Report Testing Positive for COVID-19
Apple today in a press briefing indicated that its upcoming COVID-19 contact tracing system with Google will have a verification flow, meaning that users will be required to submit proof in order to report that they have tested positive for the disease. As an example, Apple said that a person...
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Well now this seems more creepy. There is no way this is 100% anonymous. Someone is making maps and using this data to do more than alert people. No matter how much I trust Apple, when the government shows up at your door....all bets are off.
I read it. I don't buy it. History has shown that just because someone says they are doing 1 thing, doesn't mean they aren't doing another. Remember when the NSA said it wasn't spying on Americans......yaaaaaaa. How did that work out? The possibility remains that this data is out of your control and you have zero idea where it really lives and how long it really is being kept and who is looking at it. This data is way too valuable to let it just disappear.
It's literally not possible to do what you are suggesting - as in a technical impossibility. Not a "oh, it might not be possible now, but someone could possibly figure it out" - it is entirely impossible.
It is not impossible. Have you seen Apple's entire code base? Didn't think so. You are operating off of documents saying this is how it works. Not the same thing.
Okay, there is not much that will be changed at this point in time and it will be what it will be. People will think what they want.
Does it ask about symptoms, although here that is most likely the only reason you could get tested. It will go back like a week since you were already infected then without symptoms.