By Reuters
Published: 14:47 GMT, 1 February 2019 | Updated: 15:51 GMT, 1 February 2019
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Apple has finally found a fix for its FaceTime eavesdropping bug.
The iPhone maker on Friday said it has fixed a privacy flaw in its group video chat software that allowed users to hear the audio of a person they were calling before that person answered the call.
It also plants to improve how it handles reports of software bugs after a teenager and his mother tried for days to warn Apple of the bug.
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Craig Federighi, Apple's senior vice president of Software Engineering, speaks about group FaceTime during an announcement of new products at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference in San Jose, Calif. Apple says it has fixed the internal bug that led to people being able to eavesdrop on others while using its group video chat feature
'We want to assure our customers that as soon as our engineering team became aware of the details necessary to reproduce the bug, they quickly disabled Group FaceTime and began work on the fix,' Apple said in a statement.
'We are committed to improving the process by which we receive and escalate these reports, in order to get them to the right people as fast as possible.'
The bug was discovered by 14-year-old Grant Thompson, who, along with his mother, Michele, tried to report the bug to Apple but said they struggled to get the company's attention until the problem
