Apple Watch has today a critical problem announced and resolved by the Apple company, the Americans working very quickly to ensure that their customers are not affected. More specifically, those from Apple were warned that there is a very serious problem in the Walkie Talkie application in the Apple Watch that allows spying on iPhones.
Apple Watch it had the Walkie Talkie function implemented so that users could talk to each other as if they were using radio stations. Unfortunately, it seems that the application was not created very well, and the discovered vulnerability allowed hackers to listen to iPhones.
Apple Watch has the Walkie Talkie application disabled from Apple's servers, so it can no longer be used until this vulnerability is resolved. It is not known how long Apple will need to solve the vulnerability, nor if an update for watchOS will be necessary, so we just have to be patient.
We were just made aware of a vulnerability related to the Walkie-Talkie app on the Apple Watch and have disabled the function as we quickly fix the issue. We apologize to our customers for the inconvenience and will restore the functionality as soon as possible. Although we are not aware of any use of the vulnerability against a customer and specific conditions and sequences of events are required to exploit it, we take the security and privacy of our customers extremely seriously. We concluded that disabling the app was the right course of action as this bug could allow someone to listen through another customer's iPhone without consent. We apologize again for this issue and the inconvenience.
