ZoraSafe is an app that not only protects older people against scammers and hackers, but also teaches them how to stay safe through gamified microlearning. The app is expected to be launched in a month. It will cost $12.99 a month for individual subscribers, and a higher rate for family and group plans. The first version of the app will have several features, such as a mode to scan QR codes for malware or phishing, the ability to send suspicious SMS text messages and emails to ZoraSafe to get them checked out, and a feature to share a known scam or threat with the app so it can be added to a database to help other users. Future releases will also include a feature that will allow users to get ZoraSafe to join a suspicious phone call, so the company’s AI system can detect if it’s a scam or a deepfake call. In that case, however, the app will not be listening to or recording the calls. Once the app detects a threat, it will spin up a chat that will explain to the user what that threat was and teach them how to spot and deal with similar situations in the future. The AI engine is designed with privacy in mind, doing 85% of the processing on the device, and only 15% in the cloud, which will be “sanitized of your personal information before it leaves your device.” Therea re also plans to make an “NFC sticker” that will be incorporated in phone cases so that users can quickly pull up the app if they get a deepfake call, or even if they fall and need to alert their caretakers. That’s one of the ways they plan on getting around iOS’s restrictions on apps monitoring what happens on other apps. Another way is to have a “Share to ZoraSafe” option in the iOS menu that will allow users to send text messages or emails to the company’s systems.