{"id":7005,"date":"2019-02-01T19:25:27","date_gmt":"2019-02-01T19:25:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/apple-to-issue-fix-for-facetime-bug\/"},"modified":"2019-02-01T19:25:27","modified_gmt":"2019-02-01T19:25:27","slug":"apple-to-issue-fix-for-facetime-bug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/apple-to-issue-fix-for-facetime-bug\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple to issue fix for Facetime bug"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div property=\"articleBody\">\n<figure class=\"media-landscape has-caption full-width lead\"><span class=\"image-and-copyright-container\"><\/p>\n<p>                <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"js-image-replace\" alt=\"Apple has disabled the group calling function of FaceTime while it pushes out its update to customers\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/320\/cpsprodpb\/12DAD\/production\/_105392277_whatsubject.jpg\" width=\"976\" height=\"549\"\/><span class=\"off-screen\">Image copyright<\/span><br \/>\n                 <span class=\"story-image-copyright\">Getty Images<\/span><\/p>\n<p>            <\/span><figcaption class=\"media-caption\"><span class=\"off-screen\">Image caption<\/span><br \/>\n                <span class=\"media-caption__text\"><br \/>\n                    Apple has disabled the group calling function of FaceTime while it pushes out its update to customers<br \/>\n                <\/span><br \/>\n            <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">Apple has found a fix for a bug that let people eavesdrop on other FaceTime users when the person called did not answer.<\/p>\n<p>It said it was planning to release a software update next week to close the loophole.<\/p>\n<p>Once the fix is applied, it will also re-enable the Group FaceTime feature shut down when the problem was discovered.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;significant&#8221; bug was revealed by <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2019\/01\/28\/facetime-bug-hear-audio\/\" class=\"story-body__link-external\">Apple news site 9to5mac<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A mother and son from Arizona also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/technology-47050433\" class=\"story-body__link\">reportedly told Apple about the issue<\/a> but were ignored.<\/p>\n<p>The problem was found to occur when users of iPhones running version 12.1 of Apple&#8217;s iOS operating system used the group calling function of FaceTime. It was also found to hit Mac users who were called from an iPhone.<\/p>\n<p>The flaw meant the microphone on a recipient&#8217;s smartphone was activated, even if the call to them was not accepted.<\/p>\n<p>New York governor Andrew Cuomo issued a warning about the flaw and urged people to disable FaceTime until it was fixed. <\/p>\n<p>The New York authorities are now looking into whether Apple did enough to warn people about the problem.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/technology-47088161\">Source<\/a> by <a href=\"\">[author_name]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Apple has disabled the group calling function of FaceTime while it pushes out its update to customers Apple has found a fix for a bug that let people eavesdrop on other FaceTime users when the person called did not answer. It said it was planning to release a software &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7005\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}