Apple just disabled Walkie Talkie on Watch due to an iPhone eavesdropping vulnerability

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The Apple Watch has a neat new app that lets you talk to your friends called Walkie Talkie. It’s not a phone calls app, although the Watch can do that too. Instead, it’s just a simple app that lets you send quick thoughts via voice back and forth. It works a lot like the old push-to-talk (PTT) phones, but it all happens on your wrist. However, you won’t be able to use it for the time being, as Apple has disabled the watchOS 5 functionality because of a new newly discovered vulnerability that would allow others to listen to your iPhone without consent.

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Apple just disabled Walkie Talkie on Watch due to an iPhone eavesdropping vulnerability originally appeared on BGR.com on Thu, 11 Jul 2019 at 06:50:27 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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