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by markdown 2158 days ago
Does your Irish app require the app to be open on iOS?
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Not that I’m aware of. The app just reads the data your phone is already collecting.

It’s making use of the api that Apple and Google added to iOS and Android. Which I believe once enabled is using Bluetooth beacons to keep a list of other phones you have been nearby. That’s all done by phone, not the app.

If you test positive, then you are expected to use the app to upload the list of phones you were in contact with. Notifications will then be sent to all those phones through the app.

No, reportedly it was the first app to use the Google/Apple framework from the very start, which doesn’t suffer from that issue.