https://github.com/AU-COVIDSafe/mobile-ios/issues?q=is%3Aiss...
The irony is that Germany uses iOS contact tracing, so as I live near the border I miss detection of a high vector.
Scratch that, I -would miss-, it I used the app, which I don’t because it has to be opened, manually toggled on, and stay in the foreground to do any contact tracing.
Even if it were not for the battery use, the power of defaults means that the app is rarely activated by people, (when it’s installed at all since it’s not listed in the initial iOS alert you get and pick France).
Desperate posters “here I activate TousAntiCOVID” are being placated in shopping malls and stuff.
It’s ridiculous.
Add to that a bit of science nationalism from the De Gaulle era, and we ended up with that app.
That thing utterly murders the battery on new phones as well.
I have a Note 10 + 5G and my wife has the S20 Plus and running that means having to recharge the battery multiple times a day or risk running around without any phone.
Sometimes my wife has noticed that the battery will go DOWN while being charged. so we uninstalled the app and the problem has gone.
I was an advocate for it when they were talking about releasing it... but as usual the Australian Gov is technically incompetent.