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(Reuters) - Apple Inc said on Monday it will issue a software
patch later this week for a bug that lets iPhone users hear
audio from users who have not yet accepted a video call.
The bug, which Reuters was able to replicate, allows an iPhone
user placing a call using Apple's FaceTime video-calling feature
to hear audio from the recipient's phone even if the recipient
has not yet picked up the call. The bug appears to rely on
Apple's group video-calling feature.
In certain situations, the bug also broadcast both video and
audio from the recipient's phone, the technology news website
the Verge noted. http://bit.ly/2Sg1klu
"We're aware of this issue and have identified a fix that will
be released in a software update later this week," an Apple
spokesperson said.
Apple's group FaceTime was temporarily made unavailable due to
an ongoing issue, according to Apple's system status webpage.
https://apple.co/2Sars1k
The Cupertino, California-based company was not immediately
available to comment on the update on its system status page.
Users took to Twitter to tweet jokes and comments about the bug
affecting Apple's group FaceTime service.
"Disable FaceTime for now until Apple fixes," Twitter Inc CEO
Jack Dorsey tweeted.
Apple announced the feature last summer, but then removed it
from early test versions of its iOS 12 operating system. The
company launched the feature in October.
(Reporting by Stephen Nellis in San Fransisco and Subrat Patnaik
in Bengaluru; Editing by Sandra Maler, Leslie Adler and Sherry
Jacob-Phillips)
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