How to turn on COVID-19 contact tracing on your iPhone

Apple is turning the iPhone into a tool to help fight the coronavirus. In addition to rolling out an update in iOS 13.5 that makes it easier to log in to your phone when wearing a face mask, the new software includes a feature that could notify you of possible exposure to COVID-nineteen.

COVID-19 exposure notifications use Bluetooth technology and contact tracing from authorized public health apps. The aim is to alert users who may have been exposed to the coronavirus via a notification.

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Keep in listen that in guild to employ COVID-19 exposure notifications, yous volition need to also download a public health app that supports Apple's contact tracing. Three U.s. states — Alabama, South Carolina and Northward Dakota — take said they volition participate in using the contact tracing API from Apple and Google. Other health agencies in other locations will become access in the coming weeks.

Notwithstanding, information technology'due south upwardly for participating wellness government to create a contact tracing app that taps into the exposure notifications APIs. At the time of writing, no apps are currently fix. But by setting your iPhone up for exposure logging you can be fix for when the apps arrive.