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iOS 13.7 Now Available With Support for Exposure Notifications Express
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Totally disagree. While neither is perfect, this side-by-side shows how the PlayStore design presents information in a way that's much more quickly understandable. The iOS interface went wayyyyy too far into flat design, removing important visual cues that make information more clearly and quickly understood.
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It could be because Health Canada has taken a lead in distributing its own app that uses the COVID-19 notifications. BTW, in English, the DL screen looks like this:
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13.0 was probably the buggiest iOS I've ever encountered and I've used every iteration.
It felt like a complete re-write and if I were to guess it was probably a ObjC to Swift re-write.
So, yeah, compared to version .0 version .7 should be comparatively solid/polished.
Because, and that's a conceptual error of the whole thing, it is based on your permanent address. SARS-CoV-2 respects state and country borders like no virus before, that's why everyone has to create their own app and notification system... but anyway, it's the reason you have to tell them where you live, not where you are.
There is a bug with Availability Alerts saying to enable Location Services. Location services already enabled and Availability Alerts cannot be activated. Have turned Location Services on/off several times and rebooted numerous times. No app in my area, unfortunately.
Still don’t know why states need to “participate” — why not just make it an optional feature for all users globally? But either way, baking this into iOS makes so much more sense than requiring a separate app.
I think that since that update i am experiencing problems with my airpods pro. they are connected but i can't playback audio on them. already tried to "forget device" and re-pair. anybody else with similar problems?
If anyone is interested in learning a little about Contact tracing, this is a good read. Not trying to change any opinions, but it is informative:
www.theatlantic.com
The Most American COVID-19 Failure Yet
Contact tracing works almost everywhere else. Why not here?
As I commented earlier on, there are two aspects an app does that Apple/Google would have to take on:
1) Interfacing with the local labs such that a user can enter a positive test result and the phone will ’contact’ the lab (or a national clearing house that interfaces with the labs) to verify with them that this was indeed a real test result and not somebody spamming the system.
2) Contacting the national/state database of random identifiers of people who have tested positive (and chosen to report this via step 1). I doubt Apple or Google would want to host that database themselves.
The second part could probably be achieved easily enough without an app. Apple/Google just need to ‘hard‘-code the server address for each participating country/state and make sure that the server and the phone know how to talk to each other. The former is harder to do as interfacing with labs (or at the very least a clearing house for labs) in every jurisdiction is a big job.
But there can by hybrid approaches (which the new system in 13.7 appears to be) where the national/state health authorities create a clearing house for labs as well as the server/database containing the tokens from people having tested positive. Every country/state would still need to create those two things (lab clearing house + database) following Apple & Google's specifications but they wouldn't need to create a client-side app.
What is happening to Apple's UI team? That word-breaking is crazy!
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Like, come on! This is yet another area where Apple is turning into the mess that is Windows. A complete lack of attention to detail.
Yah, I know... totally off-topic, but "Bleh!", as Steve would say!
Okay, on-topic. I'm puzzled by the rollout of support for Exposure Notifications. Here in Canada, they released an official country-wide app (Covid Alert), but then it's only supported in a *single* province right now, for "testing" purposes. Wouldn't testing across the entire country give a much better set of observations? Are they worried about false-positives and causing panic in the general population?
Let's hope this Express feature is more broadly adopted. But I am wondering why this wasn't just released first, instead of requiring apps at all?
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"Exposure Notif-"
"ication App"
"Exposure Notif-"
"ication App"
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"Exposure Notifica-"
tions Are Not"
"Currently Available"
tions Are Not"
"Currently Available"
Like, come on! This is yet another area where Apple is turning into the mess that is Windows. A complete lack of attention to detail.
Yah, I know... totally off-topic, but "Bleh!", as Steve would say!
Okay, on-topic. I'm puzzled by the rollout of support for Exposure Notifications. Here in Canada, they released an official country-wide app (Covid Alert), but then it's only supported in a *single* province right now, for "testing" purposes. Wouldn't testing across the entire country give a much better set of observations? Are they worried about false-positives and causing panic in the general population?
Let's hope this Express feature is more broadly adopted. But I am wondering why this wasn't just released first, instead of requiring apps at all?
Lol I’m with ya in principle mate but I think we’ve all been spied on well before this update without our consent and so whilst we all absolutely should advocate for unsolicited tracking/spying etc., these things are rarely knowingly consented to (not in a properly informed sense) anyway, we can’t often control whether it happens to us or not, ya just gotta be aware of it 👍🏻
I am sitting here watching my iPad Pro and iPhone 11 Pro Max update. Amazing how long these updates take considering the speed of these devices. That said, they don't happen all that often so they're not disruptive (and I can do them when I want).
Just, figured, a 150mb update would be a little faster.
You can choose to let it update itself overnight when plugged in.
Oh man, I can just feel all the "No way. Govt./ Apple is tracking us, I'm not installing this!" posts.
Anyway, like any iOS update...and there have been a ton in the last 12 months - I'll wait to see if there are major issues, battery drain, other goofy bugs, etc.
Personally right now, I know I'm at risk every single time I go out - to the grocery store, a Target, CVS, a place with other people around me...and mask on. (I take this seriously, I'm not a "COVIdiot").
Anyway, like any iOS update...and there have been a ton in the last 12 months - I'll wait to see if there are major issues, battery drain, other goofy bugs, etc.
Personally right now, I know I'm at risk every single time I go out - to the grocery store, a Target, CVS, a place with other people around me...and mask on. (I take this seriously, I'm not a "COVIdiot").
I am a bit confused about this. Do I have this Correct?
Right now (Oregon) i can’t turn on this feature as they don’t have an app.
Once Oregon has an app, I should be able to turn it on the covid alerts.
I am an essential worker in the travel industry, so I overnight in many states, and sometimes other counties (once the allow travel again from the US.)
Lets’s assume I have a covid positive coworker who lives in another state (let’s say Virginia for arguments sake) whom I have close contact. He tests positive, and tells the app.
Will I be alerted? Does Oregon’s app know his Virginia’s state app tested positive, or would Virginia have to tell Oregon to alert me?
Right now (Oregon) i can’t turn on this feature as they don’t have an app.
Once Oregon has an app, I should be able to turn it on the covid alerts.
I am an essential worker in the travel industry, so I overnight in many states, and sometimes other counties (once the allow travel again from the US.)
Lets’s assume I have a covid positive coworker who lives in another state (let’s say Virginia for arguments sake) whom I have close contact. He tests positive, and tells the app.
Will I be alerted? Does Oregon’s app know his Virginia’s state app tested positive, or would Virginia have to tell Oregon to alert me?
There have been general statements by Apple and/or Google as well as European governments (where the same problem exists) over the last two months or so that this will be possible soon. But I have not seen any clear statements that it actually has been implemented with 13.7. I currently have apps from two European countries (between which I frequently travel) and on my phone one country/app is listed as active region and the second one as authorized region (which means I had set it to be the active region at some point in the past).
I can switch between both apps at will, but I don’t know if any cross-border notifications are already possible.
Significant Locations (in addition to Location Services) must also be on (in System Services) before you can turn on Availability Alerts.
Significant Locations is on by default, so if it’s off, you would at some time in the past have manually turned it off. Most users have not turned off Significant Locations, and will not run into this “issue”.
The notice that simply says Availability Alerts are not available because Location Services are turned off should be improved to indicate that Significant Locations also needs to be on.
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That has been an issue.
The original "designs" here in Cali entailed a user signing up for the service so the "handling" State agency had all the initial user info which .....
Just what we don't want.