Not even a couple of weeks after the release of iOS 18.3, in the last hours Apple has released a new software update for customers who have iPhone and iPad to correct some problems relating not only to the usual system bugs but also to privacy and safety So much so that the experts in the sector explained that it is an “urgent” update.
What the update solves
Officially, Apple has published a document in which we read that “a physical attack it could deactivate the USB mode with restrictions on a blocked device. Apple is aware of a relationship that this problem may have been exploited in an extremely sophisticated attack on specific individuals “. Some experts in the sector explained, more in detail, that a flaw was present in the USB Restricted Mode mode, introduced in 2018 with iOS 11.4.1 and which prevents access to the data of the iPhone blocked. The vulnerability, reported by Bill Marczak of Citizen Lab, “it may have been exploited in an extremely sophisticated attack, against a specific series of targeted individuals“, at least according to what Apple declared.
What the function is for
Cupertino has already faced such problems in the past and always related to the USB Restricted Mode: as experts explain Tomshw.itthis function is “Designed to prevent attempts to circumvent the access codes of the devices and the encryption protections of user data, but which has not always proved impenetrable as planned by Apple “. Now, however, everything seems to have been solved as Apple writes on the document published online by stating that “An authorization problem has been solved by improving state management “.
If this is the most serious and prominent element relating to the last update iOS, in the meantime other problems have also been corrected by many users including the malfunction of some keyboards but also of the “delays” relating to other parts of the system. In order to update, as always, you have to go to settings, generals, software update and you will see the latest version available. At that point you will have to have a sufficient charge of the battery or you can keep the phone under charge so automatically the update. The same goes, parallel, for the iPads for which the same procedure will have to be followed.
At this point he gets
The wait for the release of iOS 18.4 which should make important innovations above all relating to artificial intelligence: there is still no release date but it could already be available in the next few days.