When the going gets tough, the tough get going! In what could be a massive show of strength against the dreading COVID-19 pandemic, the two major tech titans – Apple and Google – have joined hands to introduce Coronavirus contact tracing on iOS and Android. Designed to help governments and health agencies reduce the spread of the virus, this health-centric feature ensures contact-tracing aka “Exposure Notifications” remains secure and private. If you want to take the help of it to fight out the pandemic, let’s head over to learn how you can manage COVID-19 exposure notifications on your iPhone!
Wondering how the contact-tracing kicks in? It would be better to sort out a few questions upfront.
First and foremost, the COVID-19 contact-tracing is the part of iOS 13.5, which is currently in developer beta. It uses Bluetooth, and not GPS, to work seamlessly. By default, the exposure notification is disabled. However, you can choose to turn on/off the Apple and Google’s exposure notification on your iOS device as and when you want.
Once you have enabled the contact-tracing feature on your iPhone, the device will exchange random IDs other devices via Bluetooth. It will enable an app to alert you if you may have been exposed to COVID-19. If you ever (unfortunately) get diagnosed with Coronavirus, you can easily share your device’s random IDs with the authorized app so that it can notify others anonymously.
- Next, tap on Health.
Enable/Disable Contact-Tracing on iPhone
That’s pretty much it! I guess you have now got a good hang of how this crucial feature will work. So, make the most of it to take control of the virus or at least fight it out in a mature way. As we are talking about Coronavirus, I would recommend you to check out the cool dance learning and music learning apps as they can let you turn the self-quarantine into a great opportunity to master dancing or enhance your music skill. Oh yes, there are also some really nice iPhone 11 cases that can let you disinfect your device.
