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by isseu 2203 days ago
What happened to the US Apple/Google app?
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avianlyric 2203 days ago
Apple and Google are just providing APIs.

It up to countries and states to build apps on those APIs.

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flurdy 2203 days ago
In the US I think it is by each state not federal/countrywide.

* https://9to5mac.com/2020/05/21/covid-19-exposure-notificatio...

* https://www.wired.com/story/covid-19-contact-tracing-app-fra...

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rootusrootus 2203 days ago
The API is supposed to be available once 13.5 goes live (and it is available in public beta now, I believe). Here is a list of states who are participating with compatible apps: https://9to5mac.com/2020/05/21/covid-19-exposure-notificatio...

TL;DR: Hardly any.

Edit: Whoops, I am out of date, I thought 13.5 was not out yet! Apparently it is, and then some.

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ecesena 2203 days ago
From the link above:

> To implement its contact tracing functionality, Immuni leverages the Apple and Google Exposure Notification framework (see Apple’s documentation and Google’s documentation). This allows Immuni to overcome certain technical limitations, thus being more reliable than otherwise would be possible.

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Nas808 2203 days ago
13.5 went live on May 20. They just released 13.5.1 yesterday to patch the unc0ver jailbreak.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT211214

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rootusrootus 2203 days ago
Ah my bad, thanks for the correction. I'm still at 13.4 and I haven't been overtly refusing upgrade notifications, so I thought it hadn't been released yet.
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