Over the years, Apple and Google have become the kings of the mobile industry by having the majority of the market in their favor, with their respective iOS and Android operating systems. There are few times that they intervene together to launch new updates, but this time the occasion deserved it and they have agreed to offer one of the best functions in a long time to ensure the privacy of the users of each platform.
Surely on some occasion you have thought that your location could be discovered at any time by a group of hackers with bad intentions, but this is going to change from now on, because both Apple and Google have developed a strategy that will increase the security of their users so that no one knows where they are located if they manage to access their mobile phones.
Apple and Google warn about possible tracking
Apple and Google have reached an agreement to intervene in the event that someone can view our location without consent and immediately mitigate that access. Thus, the Cupertino statement, which was released this Monday, reflects the launch of all the machinery of these two manufacturers to introduce a new system called Detection of unwanted location trackers for Bluetooth tracking devices.
This tool will provide a layer of privacy to smartphones with iOS and Android systems, with the aim that users are warned of possible tracking of their location. The notification will be sent directly to their mobile phones so they know that someone is following them.
It has also been announced that tracker detection will be available for both iOS versions 17.5 and devices with Android 6.0 or later installed.
How does tracker detection work?
As Apple indicates on its blog, if a user is being tracked and an unknown Bluetooth tracking device is identified, they will receive the following alert: “(Electronic tracking device) is moving with you.” At that precise moment, users will be able to make a sound to know if that tracking device is near them and be able to deactivate it using the manufacturer’s instructions.
Likewise, the company with the bitten apple has distributed that in the case of iPhones, the appearance of small trackers known as AirTags have become a technological revolution by being able to place them on accessories such as keys, suitcases or backpacks, and know everything moment where they are. However, not everyone made legal use of these elements, which is why they were also used to carry out misdeeds and trigger criminal attacks.
For this reason, other third-party developers have committed to ensuring that their tracking devices, such as Chipolo, eufy, Jio, Motorola and Pebblebee, integrate the necessary indications to block them, like Apple’s, as well as alert notifications. to identify them.
This multiplatform collaboration between Apple and Google originated with the Internet Engineering Task Force initiative, and represents a new example to guarantee the security of its users, while encouraging other manufacturers to get to work to offer functionality of Unwanted tracking alert on your products.
