Bluetooth access on iPhones is one of several security-related issues for contact-tracing apps. FMTNews Apple
PARIS: France accused Apple on Tuesday of undermining its effort to fight the coronavirus by refusing to help make its iPhones more compatible with a planned “StopCovid” contact-tracing app.
Apple’s iPhones normally block access to Bluetooth unless the user is actively running an app. French officials want Apple to change the settings to let their app access Bluetooth in the background, so it is always on. So far, they say, Apple has refused. The issue of Bluetooth access on iPhones is one of several security-related questions that have arisen as countries try to roll out smartphone apps to fight the coronavirus.
O, the French minister, said he could not explain the reasoning behind Apple’s decision on Bluetooth.
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