Security News > 2020 > April > Will Apple’s “microphone switch” stop your iPad getting bugged?
There's been a bit of a buzz in the news lately over an "Epic new feature" in the next Apple iPad model - the one that's supposed to come out this year.
A real-life, break-in-the-wire(ish) microphone switch so that you can be sure that your iPad really isn't recording you while you're in your car or sitting around at home.
The microphone switch isn't a switch in the conventional sense - you don't operate it like a regular light switch.
All Mac portables with the Apple T2 Security Chip feature a hardware disconnect that ensures the microphone is disabled whenever the lid is closed.
Apparently, Apple is extending the T2 Security Chip's self-contained switching abilities to its new iPad range, activated by an external trigger that is MFi compliant.