A big Bluetooth 6.1 upgrade will soon boost your privacy and battery life

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Your next phone could come with a new Bluetooth feature that could make it harder to track you and boost your battery life at the same time, in a double win for any of the best phones that incorporate it. And while we don’t know its exact release date, there’s a chance we could even see it this year.

The feature in question from the new Bluetooth 6.1 protocol is called Randomized RPA Updates, and it’s just been announced as part of the Bluetooth upgrade. In this instance, RPA stands for resolvable private address, and it’s this part that will have an impact on your privacy.

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What we also need is the likes of Apple to implement LDAC or apt-x HD so their phones/iPad's can transmit lossless audio files to compatible headphones without sacrifricing any of the data.