Apple Inc said on Monday it will issue a software patch later this week for a bug that lets iPhone users hear audio from users who have not yet accepted a video call.<\/p>\n
The bug, which Reuters was able to replicate, allows an iPhone user placing a call using Apple\u2019s FaceTime video-calling feature to hear audio from the recipient\u2019s phone even if the recipient has not yet picked up the call. The bug appears to rely on Apple\u2019s group video-calling feature.<\/p>\n
In certain situations, the bug also broadcast both video and audio from the recipient’s phone, the technology news website the Verge<\/a> noted.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re aware of this issue and have identified a fix that will be released in a software update later this week,\u201d an Apple spokesperson said.<\/p>\n Apple’s group FaceTime was temporarily made unavailable due to an ongoing issue, according to Apple’s system status webpage. apple.co\/2Sars1k<\/a><\/p>\n The Cupertino, California-based company was not immediately available to comment on the update on its system status page.<\/p>\n Users took to Twitter to tweet jokes and comments about the bug affecting Apple\u2019s group FaceTime service.<\/p>\n \u201cDisable FaceTime for now until Apple fixes,\u201d Twitter Inc CEO Jack Dorsey tweeted.<\/p>\n Apple announced the feature last summer, but then removed it from early test versions of its iOS 12 operating system. The company launched the feature in October.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Apple Inc said on Monday it will issue a software patch later this week for a bug that lets iPhone users hear audio from users who have not yet accepted a video call. The bug, which Reuters was able to replicate, allows an iPhone user placing a call using Apple\u2019s FaceTime video-calling feature to hear … Continue reading “How Apple’s FaceTime could be used for eavesdropping”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2961,"featured_media":20675,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,86,10],"tags":[12458,12459,429],"class_list":["post-20674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-technology","category-united-states","tag-apple-facetime","tag-bug","tag-twitter"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":"","source_text":"","source_url":""},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/facetime.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2961"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20674"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20676,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20674\/revisions\/20676"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}