Apple privately threatened to remove Elon Musk's artificial intelligence app, Grok, from its App Store in January after Musk's xAI failed to do enough to stop it from creating nude or sexualized deepfakes.
The tech giant said the threat stems from the vast majority of users not updating to the latest version of their phone software, known as iOS 26. The patch includes advanced security upgrades for the latest vulnerabilities that hackers have allegedly been using in real-world attacks. Specifically, they've exploited sneaky flaws in the part of the iPhone that handles web browsing, called WebKit.
The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-20643 (CVSS score: N/A), has been described as a cross-origin issue in WebKit's Navigation API that could be exploited to bypass the same-origin policy when processing maliciously crafted web content.