How your phone will track coronavirus

Apple and Google are working together in the face of a global pandemic. To track and fight new cases of coronavirus, the companies plan to create a new system for public health apps, eventually built straight into iOS and Android. The system can track the people you have come in contact with via Bluetooth. If one of those people is diagnosed with COVID-19, you ll be alerted and told to self-isolate. Learn more about Apple and Google s contact tracing system – https://bit.ly/2xnPUUx What is contact tracing? https://bit.ly/3beJndj How you’ll use Apple and Google’s coronavirus tracking tool: https://bit.ly/2RJGdXs Here’s how Apple and Google will track the coronavirus with Bluetooth: https://bit.ly/2xvQmjm Google and Apple’s COVID-19 tracking system can’t save lives all on its own: https://bit.ly/2VuhvLC Answering the 12 biggest questions about the coronavirus tracking project: https://bit.ly/2XCdmIg Subscribe: http://goo.gl/G5RXGs Subscribe to Verge Science: http://bit.ly/2FqJZMl Read More: http://www.theverge.com Community guidelines: http://bit.ly/2D0hlAv Wallpapers from The Verge: https://bit.ly/2xQXYJr More about our podcasts: https://www.theverge.com/podcasts Like The Verge on Facebook: https://goo.gl/2P1aGc Follow on Twitter: https://goo.gl/XTWX61 Follow on Instagram: https://goo.gl/7ZeLvX