Was a COVID-19 tracking app secretly added to your smartphone?
(WTVD) — Did Apple or Google just add a COVID-19 tracking app on your smartphone?
It’s a question WTVD’s Troubleshooter Diane Wilson continues to get from viewers and the simple answer is no.
If you have an iPhone and you downloaded the latest update, go to Settings, then Privacy, and tap Health you will see COVID-19 Exposure Logging.
Both Apple and Google added what’s known as an application programming interface that will enable exposure notifications to work, with an app, if you choose to install an app.
So basically all Google and Apple did was provide the framework to support any COVID-19 tracking app.
This tool will not work unless you enable it.
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