Apple disables the walkie app

Users with an Apple Watch have the Walkie-Talkie function available as an app. Although a vulnerability has been discovered in it, so the company has decided to temporarily disable it. Apple wants to investigate and solve this failure, so that at this time it will not be possible to use it on the watch.

Apple disables the Walkie-Talkie app on Apple Watch

Due to this failure, a person could listen to the audio captured by a third-party iPhone without the user's consent. So this is a major problem.

Function temporarily disabled

Apple comments in its statement that they are working to solve this fault in the clock. Also, it seems that no uses or exploitation of this vulnerability have been found. Especially since certain conditions have to be met for someone to take advantage of it on the Apple Watch. So everything would be in a scare, which the company is currently working to fix.

It was through the vulnerability reporting platform that the company was notified of this vulnerability in this role. So these types of initiatives work well, since they allow us to fix a major problem in this case.

It is not known at the moment how long the function will be deactivated. Apple is currently working on fixing this bug, as they have said, but they have not mentioned deadlines. Surely when everything is solved, they will report that users with an Apple Watch can use the function on it again.

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