NYS ENX

New York State

About this app

NYS ENX is the official notification system for New York, supported by the New York Departments of Public Health, in partnership with Google and Apple to help slow the spread of COVID-19.
By opting in, your device will share anonymous codes with other NYS ENX users using your phone’s Bluetooth. NYS ENX codes contain no personal information or location data and are completely anonymous. If another user you’ve been near tests positive for COVID-19 within a 14-day period, you will be notified. If you test positive, you can easily and anonymously notify others to stop the spread of COVID-19.

Ratings and reviews

They've completely removed the only feature of the app I used, which was the ability to easily follow the current case numbers and positivity rates of COVID where I live and where my parents live. I tried the exposure notifications but never got a hit in months and months of living in Manhattan, so I eventually turned it off - that part seems useless and now it's the only thing left.

They broke it. It used to show percentage cases by county, and with no notification or explanation that has been removed & replaced by an entirely different app under the guise of an "upgrade". At least be honest and tell us if you're retiring the old app, don't just drop this thing with a different icon on our phones so we think we've been hacked. Uninstalling. No trust, no use - true for any software.

The idea behind this app is great. There is a running list of travel quarantine states in the NYS website, which this app does not include. It contains safety tips as well. It should also have a dark theme. The fact that Bluetooth needs to be on in order for the proximity alerts to work is not ideal. I feel this is an unnecessary security risk and that using cell tower triangulation is just as effective and requires less battery to operate.

What's new

Bug fixes and performance improvements