{"id":188957,"date":"2021-11-10T15:08:14","date_gmt":"2021-11-10T15:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/warning-iphones-are-being-turned-into-listening-devices"},"modified":"2022-10-14T14:43:42","modified_gmt":"2022-10-14T14:43:42","slug":"warning-iphones-are-being-turned-into-listening-devices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/warning-iphones-are-being-turned-into-listening-devices","title":{"rendered":"Warning: iPhones Are Being Turned Into Listening Devices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Photo: Getty Images Just when you think you knew everything your iPhone can do, along comes another hidden function or secret hack that blows your mind. There have been stories about the scanner you didn&#8217;t know your phone has , the fun way to spice up texts , how to take a screenshot without hitting a button , how to hide your personal photos and how to get a screenshot of an entire page . There are also some creepier sides to your device, like how it keeps a list of every place you&#8217;ve been . Now there comes news of another way your iPhone can be a bit too invasive &#8211; it turns out that it can secretly listen to conversations up to 50 feet away. It&#8217;s all thanks to a feature called Live Listen. According to Apple, &#8220;With Live Listen, your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch can act like a microphone that sends sound to your AirPods, AirPods<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the push of a button, your phone can hear conversations 50 feet away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[134,1],"tags":[13,473,239,530,34],"class_list":["post-188957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cell-phones","category-news","tag-cell-phones","tag-ipad","tag-iphone","tag-ipod","tag-technology"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188957\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}