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I agree, the article is conflating issues. However I would not have been put off by a small pictogram in the iPhone box to not place it in your shirt pocket over your pacemaker. By remaining silent on the issue, confused grandparents are definitely going to be posting on “the facebooks” about run away the second you see an iphone

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Not really sure what that pictogram would look like to convey that easily. There are safety instructions included though that mention medical device interference mitigation.

Maybe the easiest solution would be just put an NFC tag under the skin above the implant and have phones trigger an alert if they see it.

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