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Five Handy iPhone Calculator Tips

Your iPhone has a built-in calculator and it’s really useful. Here are five tips that make it even more useful.

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The latest iOS is 13.7, released Tuesday, September 1st, 2020. This update introduces the Exposure Notification Express feature, which (depending on where you live) may provide COVID-19 exposure notifications to you without installing an app. This feature, commonly and erroneously termed "tracking," is off by default and requires a trip to the Settings app to turn it on. Look for "Exposure Notifications" in Settings and you'll be all set. For more information see this article from macrumors.com.

Notably, the Express feature is not available in New York, New Jersey, California, or Texas, even though those four states have major COVID-19 problems. In fact, as of this writing only Alabama, Arizona, Nevada, Virginia, and Wyoming are making use of the Apple Exposure Notification API. It's important to note that there are two ways for an iPhone user to be alerted to COVID-19 exposure: by an app developed for the State you're in, or-- if the State has chosen to participate in the "Exposure Notification Express" system-- by the operating system itself. For example, Arizona has an app that uses Apple's Exposure Notification API, and if you download the app you can get COVID-19 exposure notifications, but they don't use the "Express" API so if you're in Arizona and you want COVID-19 exposure notifications, you have to get the app. All Apple's doing with the "Express" API is making it possible for the COVID-19 notifications to be given even without an app.