IPhone users also affected: The Corona warning app sometimes does not warn its users for weeks about risk encounters with people infected with Corona.
The problems of the German Corona warning app seem to be more massive than originally thought. As reported by the "Tagesschau" on their homepage, iPhone users should not have been warned in time. So far, there has only been talk of difficulties with Android smartphones. According to the report, users were sometimes not informed about the app for weeks when they came into contact with infected people. The software company SAP, which developed the app together with Deutsche Telekom, has already admitted this malfunction.
The problem is that the background update of the operating system is not called. One very strongly hopes that these difficulties "will be eliminated very, very quickly, or that we will find an effective workaround to still be able to put the functionality on its feet," says SAP.
Operating systems are said to cause the problems
Strictly speaking, it is not a malfunction of the app, but is related to the operating systems of the devices, was already announced after the Android problems became known. The Ministry of Health also assured that the Corona warning app actually worked "at all times". With an update to version 1.1.1 on Wednesday, the Android problem is already out of the world.
However, according to the "Tagesschau" the iPhone is still experiencing difficulties. Some users have reported that there was no reconciliation on more than ten consecutive days. This would mean that, in extreme cases, they were only warned ten days after contact with an infected person. The data in the app should actually be updated every 24 hours.
Here, too, the fault is not with the app, but with Apple. The operating system has a bug, explains Telekom. Actually, the data is compared every 24 hours, but the so-called scheduler "hiccups every now and then", which then prevents the data from being retrieved from the server.