- Maintenance updates.
- Maintenance updates.
- Minor design changes.
- Maintenance updates.
- Fixed bug that prevented users of TalkBack from choosing a date when sharing exposures.
- Minor design fixes to ensure consistency of language, navigation and font sizes across the app.
- Maintenance updates.
- Maintenance updates.
- Maintenance updates.
- Fixed bug that caused people using TalkBack to get stuck in the menu.
- Improved accessibility of the Menu button when using zoom features.
- Maintenance updates.
- Improved accessibility of the Menu button when using zoom features.
- Maintenance updates.
- Further updates to app and server communications.
- Improving how often the app communicates with the server.
* Updated to collect some performance metrics to help us improve — while still protecting your privacy.
* Added one-time notification to inform people of new metrics being collected and changes to the privacy notice.
* Maintenance updates.
* Added ability to notify people of multiple exposures. Before, people could not receive new notifications while in an exposed state.
* Fixed bug that made “You’ve been exposed” notifications less visible when the phone was in use.
* Maintenance updates (developers call them “package bumps”) for WorkManager.
- Added new screens and instructions for people who entered a one-time key but have not yet shared their exposures.
- Added app version number to the menu to help with support requests.
- Added missing French sentence on thank you screen.
- Fixed a bug that showed exposure checks were happening when the app was off. No exposure checks actually happened while the app was off.
- Stopped exposure check message from popping up on screen. The app will still continue to check for exposures.
- Added notification date to exposed screen so people can identify more recent exposure notifications.
- Maintenance updates (developers call them “package bumps” for WorkManager)”
- Fixed bug causing gaps in exposure checks for some users.
- Added error message for people trying to install the app on a secondary profile.
- Updated exposed screen for people who have not chosen a province or territory or who have chosen one that is not yet supporting the app.
- Standardized the number of exposure checks when the app is being used.
- Added new screens to help narrow down when a person with COVID-19 was likely contagious, based on public health guidance. If a person chooses to answer the questions, those details are never stored outside the phone. They just tell the phone which random codes to upload to help send the most accurate notifications.
- Made the privacy policy an external link
- Improved how the app functions in the background for Android
- Maintenance updates (developers call them “package bumps” for React Native)
- Updated content to clarify how Quebec users can get a one-time key.
- Improved retrieval of provincial-specific content
Minor bug fix for provincial-specific content.
Allowed content to update without closing the app
Allowed the app to include more provinces and territories
- Added new French URL for the Ontario Test Results website
- Added details to the privacy policy about IP addresses and about links from the app to websites
- Updated privacy policy link in the App Store from a temporary page to canada.ca
- Small layout fixes
What’s new?
- Refining how the app detects exposures
- Improving how the app checks for Internet connection
First release! Together, let’s slow the spread of COVID-19.
Together, let’s slow the spread of COVID-19. Canada's COVID Alert app notifies you if someone you were near in the past 14 days tells the app they tested positive.
COVID Alert uses Bluetooth to exchange random codes with nearby phones. It does not use or access any location data. COVID Alert works by determining how far away other phones are by the strength of their Bluetooth signal.
Several times a day, COVID Alert checks a list of codes from people who tell the app they tested positive. You’ll get a notification if a code you received matches one of the positive codes.
If you test positive for COVID-19 you’ll receive a one-time key with your diagnosis to enter into COVID Alert. The app asks permission to share your random codes from the last 14 days with a central server.
Other phones using COVID Alert check the central server periodically throughout the day. If they recorded any codes that match the codes in the central server, their user will be notified that they were exposed.
COVID Alert has no way of knowing:
-your location - COVID Alert does not use GPS or location services
-your name or address
-the place or time you were near someone
-if you're currently near someone who was previously diagnosed
Provincial and territorial governments are working to support COVID Alert across Canada. In some places, people cannot yet report a COVID-19 diagnosis through this app.
It’s still helpful to keep COVID Alert on, no matter where you are. That way, when people are able to report a diagnosis, you’ll find out if you were near them.
COVID Alert was built by Health Canada with the Canadian Digital Service on the private exposure notification framework by Apple and Google.