Apple and Google announced a joint effort in April to produce a coronavirus tracker and Apple users who have installed the latest update, iOS 13.5, will find that they now have the tracker installed. Although switched off.
The tracking tool is intended to alert people who have been in contact with someone infected although you will not be able to switch the Exposure Logging function on unless you download one of the authorised applications that can send exposure notifications.
The “COVID-19 Exposure Logging” feature says: “When enabled, iPhone can exchange random IDs with other devices using Bluetooth.
“This enables an app to notify you if you may have been exposed to COVID-19. Exposure Logging cannot access any data in, or add any data to, the Health app.”
If you have an iPhone, you can find it by going into ‘Settings’, then ‘Privacy’ and then ‘health’. On Android phones, the tracker is kept under ‘Settings’ and then ‘Google Settings’.
