Exposure Notifications

UT Exposure Notifications is the official state COVID-19 exposure notification system. By enabling this service, you can be quickly notified if you’ve likely been exposed to the virus, allowing you to reduce risk for your loved ones, seek medical attention, and slow the spread in your community.

Using this service is 100% voluntary and you can opt out at any time. No GPS, location information, or personal identifiers will ever be collected or stored.

By opting in, your device will share anonymous tokens with other UT Exposure Notifications users using your phone’s Bluetooth. If another user you’ve been near tests positive for COVID-19 within a 14-day period, your phone will notify you.

If you test positive, you can easily and anonymously notify others to help stop the spread of COVID-19.

Contact tracing is an important part of how public health responds and stops disease outbreaks. People who have been in close contact with someone who has COVID-19 are more at risk of getting infected and making others sick. 

Exposure Notifications is a form of electronic contact tracing. The tokens exchanged through your phone and the phones of those around you keep an encrypted log of who you’ve been in contact with.

When someone with Exposure Notifications enabled reports a positive test result, those people they’ve been in contact with are notified. This expedited notification process helps catch exposure before it spreads.

Android users can download the UT Exposure Notifications app from the Google Play Store.

iPhone users can enable notifications directly in their phone settings:

• Tap on the Settings app from your home screen.
• Scroll down to locate and tap “Exposure Notifications.” (found in the same grouping as Emergency SOS and Battery)
• Tap “Turn on Exposure Notifications” and tap continue.
• Follow the prompts to select Country and State. (United States, Utah)
• Review and accept the terms and conditions.
• When prompted, allow Exposure Notifications to access your phone’s Bluetooth.
• Tap “Turn on” to enable the notifications on your phone.

Your positive result will only result in an Exposure Notification if you have opted in and upload your result to the system. Even then, your personal information is not collected, stored or shared by the exposure notification system.

You will be notified once the COVID positive individual authorizes Exposure Notifications to send out an alert. You can be notified of any exposure that happened within the last 7 days. How quickly after you are exposed will also vary depending on when that person received a positive result and how quickly the information was uploaded.

Yes. People visiting Utah with their Exposure Notifications enabled will be able to send and receive notifications to you if you (or they) test positive.

Additionally, if you go on a trip to another state, you can continue to use notifications with Utah selected as your state. However, if you move out of Utah for an extended period of time, you should review notification options in your new state.

Yes. Just as you have to opt-in to participate, you can opt-out at any time.

No. The system is designed so that a person can only upload their positive result if it is coming from qualified testing sites and labs and verified by a public health authority.

Exposure Notifications requires several conditions to be met in order to send you a notification.

• Both people must have the software installed with bluetooth enabled at the time of their close interaction.
• The person with a positive diagnosis must upload their tokens.
• Both people have to spend enough time at a close distance for there to be a likely exposure.

If one of those conditions did not occur, then you won’t get a notification.

If you know that you were exposed to COVID-19 through close contact with someone who tested positive, you should still quarantine and monitor your symptoms. You can find more info on how to quarantine here.