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A serious new FaceTime bug lets you listen to people before they pick up

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<p>You might want turn off FaceTime right this second. There’s a nasty new bug in iOS 12 that lets FaceTime callers hear sound from the recipient’s microphone even if they haven’t picked up. It works by exploiting a bug with Apple’s newish Group FaceTime feature introduced in iOS 12.1, but fortunately Apple says a fix is already in the works.</p><p><strong>Update 8:15pm:</strong> Apple wasted little time in making sure the problem didn’t get out of hand. According to Apple’s <a href="https://www.apple.com/support/systemstatus/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">System Status[/url] page, Group FaceTime is currently unavailable (as of 8:00 p.m. Pacific time). We can confirm that Group FaceTime doesn't work. </p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3336865/ios/facetime-bug-lets-you-listen-in-on-people-you-call.html#jump">To read this article in full, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>

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