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MTA asks Apple's help to solve iPhone mask issues

by Associated Press
| August 10, 2020 6:03 AM

NEW YORK (AP) — New York’s mass transit agency wants Apple to come up with a better way for iPhone users to unlock their phones without taking off their masks, as it seeks to guard against the spread of the coronavirus in buses and subways.

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