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Many iPhone apps use Bluetooth in the background without users’ consent

September 20, 2019

Via: TechSpot

On Thursday we covered the launch of iOS 13 and a few of the cool new features of the operating system. If you haven’t updated yet, you really should. It is the first time in a long while that an iOS update was really worthy of your attention.

What we did not dig into were any of the new security features. One of them forces apps to get your consent to use Bluetooth.

Twitter was aflutter with tweets about various apps inexplicably wanting access to their Bluetooth. Quite a few apps use Bluetooth for legitimate reasons.

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