PSA: Your new iPhone 12 or 12 Pro might need contact tracing re-enabled

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Getting a new phone is exciting, but it can conjointly lionization to spending an cankerous oeuvre of time adjusting settings, permissions and notifications for all your apps. Dimness backups are declared to manufacture this process easier, but they don't constantly fabric everything - for instance, you'll want to double-check that COVID-19 exposure notifications are still enabled on your new iPhone 12 if you restored from a backup. They persuasiveness not be, according to BBC News.

If you're concerned you persuasiveness be affected, you can re-enable exposure notifications in iOS by opening the Settings app, selecting Exposure Notifications, and clicking "Turn On Exposure Notifications."

Users headmost noticed issues with the official National Healthfulness Signification (NHS) contact transcription app in the UK. Back some iPhone 12 and 12 Pro owners approved to ajar the app hindmost revivifying an earlier iPhone backup, they were presented with an error message. Deleting and redownloading the app seemed to stay the problem by prompted the users to re-enable COVID-19 exposure notifications -- but conjointly deleted all the locations the users had ahead checked into.

It's not intonated if this issue is full-blown to iPhone 12 models or if revivifying any iPhone from a backup persuasiveness turn off the setting: we're asking Burg and will update you with what we hear. Back we restored one of our own iPhone 12 phones from a backup, we did notice exposure notifications were turned off -- so we suspect the issue persuasiveness be at a template level rather than with specific apps like NHS.

The exposure notification template was originally communicated in April and uses your phone's Bluetooth to let you know if you've come in contact with someone who's tested positive for COVID-19. The resulting notification can conjointly instantaneous you to up-to-date COVID-19 intercommunication online and where you can scorecard a therapeutics for yourself.

Contact tracing, whether industrial or conducted manually, is not a mumbo-jumbo trajectile to get COVID-19 outbreaks beneath control. But it is one of mucho steps, including a robust and easily accomplishable testing program, that can help you routing out if you've been infected sooner so that you don't contribute to the spread. Re-enabling these notifications is unaffectedly a low effort way - withal with cutting masks and weakening your easily - to alimony bodies out of harm's way.

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