Apple has announced the urgent need for 1.8 billion iPhone users to update their devices to iOS 18.5 to combat critical vulnerabilities that can expose personal information. The update addresses severe security issues resulting from specific vulnerabilities, allowing hackers access to sensitive data through malicious image or video files. Despite Apple's swift action to release the patch after the vulnerabilities were identified, experts stress the importance of widespread adoption among users to prevent exploitation by cybercriminals.
If someone sends you a seemingly innocent image and your phone hasn't been updated, it could silently wreak havoc or grant intruders access to your private files.
Apple moved quickly to get this fix ready once the CVEs were discovered in early 2025, but Safe Data Storage said it's now up to over a billion individual users to get iOS 18.5 into their devices.
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