Sign up to FREE email alerts from Mirror - The Coronavirus Briefing Subscribe Thank you for subscribing We have more newsletters Show me See our privacy notice Invalid EmailThe Government's ditched coronavirus app only picked up contacts with iPhones 4% of the time, the Mirror understands. The Mirror understands the app under testing on the Isle of Wight only detected Android phones 75% of the time - and iPhones just 4% of the time. The built-in system works in the background - allowing a much greater rate of tracking contacts between devices. It's understood the team behind the NHSX app had been testing the Apple/Google system alongside their own system - as a "plan B". The Health Secretary originally promised the app, which has been under testing on the Isle of Wight, would be rolled out across the nation in ‘mid-May’.

Source: Daily Mirror June 18, 2020 14:24 UTC