About NZ COVID Tracer
NZ COVID Tracer is the Ministry of Health’s official contact tracing mobile app. It helps you protect your friends, whānau and community by enabling faster contact tracing. Help contact tracing go faster by creating a...
NZ COVID Tracer is the Ministry of Health’s official contact tracing mobile app. It helps you protect your friends, whānau and community by enabling faster contact tracing.
Help contact tracing go faster by creating a private digital diary of the places you visit. Scan the official QR codes wherever you see them and add manual entries for your visits to other places.
Use Bluetooth Tracing to enable the Exposure Notification System on your phone.
Sign up for contact alerts in case you’ve checked into a location at the same time as someone with COVID-19, or exchanged anonymous Bluetooth keys with someone with COVID-19.
If you’re found to have COVID-19, you can share your digital diary with contact tracers. This will help us identify whether any of your friends, whānau or community members may have also been exposed, so we can respond quickly and stop any further spread of the virus in New Zealand.
If you test positive for COVID-19, you can also upload your anonymous Bluetooth Tracing keys so that other app users who have been close to you will be quickly notified. This helps to keep your friends, whanau and community safe without compromising on your privacy.
Register your contact information so contact tracers can get in touch if they need to.
The Ministry of Health has worked closely with the Privacy Commissioner and independent security experts during the development of NZ COVID Tracer to ensure your privacy and data security are protected.
Your digital diary will be stored securely on your phone and deleted automatically after 60 days. Any personal information you choose to share with contact tracers will be used only for public health purposes and never for enforcement.
Information about who you have encountered using Bluetooth Tracing will never leave your phone and is automatically deleted after 14 days.
Visit www.health.govt.nz/NZ-COVID-Tracer for further information.
Previous Versions
Here you can find the changelog of NZ COVID Tracer since it was posted on our website on 2020-09-03 17:16:49.
The latest version is 7.0.0 and it was updated on 2024-04-22 11:20:24. See below the changes in each version.
NZ COVID Tracer version 7.0.0
Updated At: 2022-12-11
Changes: This release removes the optional sign-up feature.
NZ COVID Tracer version 6.1.0
Updated At: 2022-04-12
Changes: This version of NZ COVID Tracer:
- Adds a link to My Vaccine Pass on the Visit Recorded screen if it's stored in Google Pay.
- Allows you to transfer your diary to a new phone by exporting and importing diary entries.
- Allows you to add an entry by following a link.
- If you need to upload your diary to contact tracers, you can now select which entries to include.
NZ COVID Tracer version 5.1.0
Updated At: 2021-07-27
Changes: This release contains a bugfix for devices using larger text sizes.
NZ COVID Tracer version 5.0.0
Updated At: 2021-05-20
Changes: This release contains:
- A new tab for more information, with links to the information people most often seek about COVID-19
- A new diary view splitting your diary by day, to make it easy to see which days you have diary entries and where you may have gaps
- Clear data labelling, so you can see how information is handled
- Colour indicators for Bluetooth tracing, so you can see when it's active
NZ COVID Tracer version 4.1.0
Updated At: 2021-04-06
Changes: We've been listening to your feedback and working hard to make NZ COVID Tracer faster, easier to use, and more useful. You can now see statistics about how New Zealand has been using the app, and you can get an indication of how complete your diary is as well.
This release also lets you use a flashlight to scan QR codes in the dark - just tap the flashlight icon in the bottom right corner of the scan screen.
There are also improvements to the way that alerts are displayed.
NZ COVID Tracer version 3.0.2
Updated At: 2021-02-02
Changes: This release contains bugfixes for high battery usage and persistent notifications experienced by some devices.
NZ COVID Tracer version 3.0.1
Updated At: 2020-12-16
Changes: Thanks to everyone who enabled Bluetooth tracing and gave us feedback. This release includes some fixes for issues with battery usage and delays in activating Bluetooth tracing.
NZ COVID Tracer version 3.0.0
Updated At: 2020-12-07
Changes: This version introduces Bluetooth Tracing. This allows you to use the Exposure Notification System of your phone to anonymously notify people around you if you test positive for COVID-19.
NZ COVID Tracer version 2.0.0
Updated At: 2020-11-20
Changes: In this version:
- Signing in or signing up is no longer required to use the app, and it no longer requires a password.
- We’ve tidied up the dashboard to make the layout and navigation simpler.
- We've simplified the onboarding process to make it clearer what the app does and how it works.
- There are also a number of bugfixes and improvements across the board to make the app more stable and accessible.
NZ COVID Tracer version 1.5.1
Updated At: 2020-10-05
Changes: We've updated the QR code scanner to be more reliable, so you should now be able to scan posters faster.
We also found and fixed an issue with the way diary entries were being recorded on some devices.
Disclaimer
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