Using Bluetooth LE, if you decide to opt-in your Phone will build an anonymous database of people who have been in your vicinity for two weeks. If one of those people tests positive for COVID-19, this is reported through an app offered by a public health organization and you are then alerted that someone near you has coronavirus. With this in mind, you will then get tested while self-isolating for two weeks. This program should help reduce the spread of the virus.

Later this year, the required apps will be made part of the iOS and Android operating systems via a software update. Users won’t need to install any apps from the App Store or Google Play Store, and those who want to participate will have to opt-in.

Also found on the iOS 13.5 beta is a change to Group FaceTime. In a group, the window of the participant talking is enlarged. With the update, the user can decide who he wants to focus on in the group by tapping on a new interface. The final version of the update is expected to drop sometime in the next few weeks.