Amaya Toman After a short break, we are again bringing you an overview of events related to Apple on the Jablíčkára website. Let's recall the remarkable bug that temporarily plagued the iOS version of the Safari browser in the past week, the launch of a satellite SOS call from the iPhone, or perhaps the latest lawsuit that Apple currently has to face.
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Flying around the world with Apple Launching satellite SOS calls from this year's iPhones
Apple rolled out the promised satellite SOS calling feature from the iPhone 14 earlier last week. Currently, the feature is available to users in the United States and Canada, and should roll out to Germany, France, the UK, and Ireland over the next month, with the following then to other countries. It is not yet clear whether the satellite SOS call will also be available here. All this year's iPhones offer satellite SOS call support. This is a function that allows the owner of a compatible iPhone to communicate with emergency services via satellite if necessary in the event that a mobile signal is not available.
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Three letter doom for Safari
Some iPhone owners had to face a rather curious bug in the Safari browser for iOS this week. If they typed a specific three letters into the browser's address bar, Safari crashed. These were, among others, combinations of the letters "tar", "bes", "wal", "wel", "old", "sta", "pla" and some others. The largest occurrence of this strange error was reported by users from California and Florida, the only solution was to use a different browser, or enter problematic terms into the search field of the selected search engine. Fortunately, Apple managed to successfully resolve the issue after a few hours.
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Apple is facing a lawsuit over tracking users (not only) in the App Store
Apple faces yet another lawsuit. This time, it concerns how the company continues to track users in its native applications, including the App Store, even in cases where users have purposefully turned off this function on their iPhones. The plaintiff alleges that Apple's privacy assurances are inconsistent with, at a minimum, applicable California law. Developers and independent researchers Tommy Mysk and Talal Haj Bakry found out that Apple collects user data in some of its native applications, testing applications such as the App Store, Apple Music, Apple TV, Books or Stocks as part of their research. Among other things, they found that turning off the relevant settings, as well as other privacy controls, had no effect on Apple's data collection.
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In the App Store, for example, data was collected about what apps users viewed, what content they searched for, what ads they viewed, or how long they stayed on individual app pages. The aforementioned lawsuit is still relatively small in scope, but if it proves to be justified, other lawsuits in other states may follow, which could have significant consequences for Apple.
