Android COVID-19 tracking apps are experiencing loading issues

Posted on 13/01/2021 by Engadget

Apps that use the Android Exposure Notifications System are currently experiencing loading issues. The Android apps, which track the spread of COVID-19 via Bluetooth, are taking longer to load and carry out exposure checks, according to The Verge. Go...

The EU is testing cross-border COVID-19 contact tracing

Posted on 14/09/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

Several European Union countries are testing a system that enables their COVID-19 contact tracing apps to work across borders. The apps for the Czech Republic, Denmark, Germany, Ireland, Italy and Latvia will exchange information during the trial. Th...

Apple releases iOS 13.7 with Exposure Notifications Express framework

Posted on 01/09/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

Apple is now rolling out what could be the last major version of iOS 13 before iOS 14 arrives later this year. Among the updates in iOS 13.7 is an upgrade to the COVID-19 exposure notification API Apple and Google released for iOS and Android. The Ex...

You can soon join Apple’s COVID-19 tracing system without an app

Posted on 01/09/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

Apple and Google have announced the latest form of their coronavirus tracing system which, for iOS users, does not require downloading an app. The companies are calling it Exposure Notifications Express.As expected, the system uses random Bluetooth i...

Bluetooth update could turn wearables into COVID-19 trackers

Posted on 19/08/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

Billions of people have smartphones, but not everyone has them, and they’re not the only smart devices folks have access to. Older people, and young kids, have valid reasons for not owning one, which excludes them from the phone-based contact-tracing...

The first US COVID-19 app built on Apple and Google tracking tech is here

Posted on 05/08/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

The Virginia Department of Health has launched COVIDWISE, an app that uses Apple and Google’s COVID-19 contact tracing technology to track coronavirus cases and notify users when they may have been exposed. State officials had been beta testing the a...

The first US COVID-19 exposure notification apps could arrive within ‘weeks’

Posted on 01/08/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

In order to help fight the spread of COVID-19, Apple and Google quickly developed exposure notification technology for Android and iOS that that relied on Bluetooth technology in mobile phones. They initially released their platforms in May (via an u...

National COVID-19 exposure server could alert people across states

Posted on 19/07/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

COVID-19 contact tracing apps will only be effective across borders if states and countries can readily share data, and a collaboration could soon make that happen in the US. iMore reports that Apple, Google, and Microsoft are working with the Associ...

Singapore offers Bluetooth COVID-19 trackers to smartphone-less seniors

Posted on 29/06/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

It’s not a given that everyone has a smartphone. That’s usually all fine and good, but countries around the world are hoping to use the devices to track contact between those with COVID-19 and the rest of the public. To bring that functionality to se...

UK contact tracing app may warn you about areas with high infection rates