Two weeks ago the guys from Cupertino surprised us disabling the Walkie-Talkie function of the Apple Watch. The Walkie-Talkie function of watchOS 5 allowed us to use our Apple Watch as if it were a Walkie-Talkie with our contacts, but in the last month from Cupertino they realized an error that allowed us to listen to those conversations being directed to us or no, something quite serious and therefore from Apple they made the decision to cancel this feature.
At the time of bug detection, Apple announced that they were aware of the vulnerability and would disable this feature until it was corrected. Well, yesterday they released the new watchOS 5.3 next to the new iOS 12.4, updates that among other things they corrected this serious problem. He Walkie-Talkie of our Apple Watch is back. After the jump we give you more details about this correction.
The funny thing is that the cancellation of the functionality came at the server level, that is, we still had the app on our Apple Watch but we could not make the app work in any way. The new watchOS 5.3 re-enables this Walkie-Talkie feature of Apple Watch and you can now use it as you did in the past., when updating to this new watchOS
A problem that reminds us of the one suffered by the group FaceTime calls last January, in that case the problem was reported by a user who could listen to the people who called you within a group without this having accepted the incursion into it, something quite serious. Security surprises from which no company is saved in the end. We already know how Apple acts on privacy issues but surprisingly they also affect their operating systems, imagine the problems that other operating systems that are not so committed to the security of their users may have ...
