Major iPhone FaceTime bug lets you hear the audio of the person you are calling … before they pick up<div class="feat-image">
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UPDATE: Apple has taken Group FaceTime offline in an attempt to address the issue in the interim.</p>
<p>A significant bug has been discovered in FaceTime and is currently spreading virally over social media. The bug lets you call anyone with FaceTime, and immediately hear the audio coming from their phone — before the person on the other end has accepted or rejected the incoming call.
Apple says the issue will be addressed in a software update “later this week”.</p>
<p>Naturally, this poses a pretty big privacy problem as you can essentially listen in on any iOS user, although it still rings like normal, so you can’t be 100% covert about it. Nevertheless, there is no indication on the recipient’s side that you could hear any of their audio. There’s a second part to this which can expose video too …</p>
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