A function to help the hearing impaired lead in these days of fierce debate on the web.
how can Apple, which is a big defender of the right to privacy, add a feature to the iPhone, which in practice makes the device into a monitoring tool?
And can you even have a private or confidential conversation in a room where there is phones, without the owner present?
If u have the AirPods, u can press “Live List” to “On” and leave your phone in the room with someone and u can hear what they saying, thank me later pic.twitter.com/fC6KYmqpB4
— arnold (@arnoldcrndo) 9. January 2019
This is precisely what happens if you enable the feature for the hearing impaired to the control center on an iPhone with iOS 12.
Then the sound from the microphones in the phone namely be sent to a wireless headset.
And because typically there can be up to 10 metres between an iPhone and a Bluetooth headset, people with the wrong intentions to leave their iPhone in a local and at a distance listening in conversations, they are not a part of.
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And it is quite difficult to discover, since it is precisely this function is only very faintly marked on the phone's lock screen.
Try, instead, to leave an iPhone with memoprogrammet set to recording, it is significantly clearer on the lock screen that is being recorded.
And you are calling you up to his own phone from a different number - and along the way try to listen to others - you can not unlock the phone, without the call ends.
this is How it looks on a unlocked iPhone, when you enable the feature for the hard of hearing. Screenshot
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It works with other words, that Apple will need to adjust the function for the hard of hearing and make it far clearer to the surroundings, to listening to on the phone.
One possibility could be that the function only works if the phone is in motion, because it must be in the hands of the hard of hearing, who need to better hear his surroundings.
Or, as a minimum, to the lock screen more clearly than in the day shows others that you are listening with, when they take hold of the phone.
Apple has so far not wanted to comment on the matter.
Also on an open screen one must keep the good eye with the red circle over the clock in the upper left hand side of the display to discover that you are listened to. Screenshot