Apple says iPhone users need to install iOS 26.3 right now
Apple says iPhone users need to install iOS 26.3 right now
https://www.phonearena.com/news/apple-says-iphone-users-must-install-ios-26.3-asap_id178169
Publish Date: 2026-02-12 16:06:00
Source Domain: www.phonearena.com
Yesterday Apple released iOS 26.3 and iPhone users should install it right away. That’s because, as Apple says, the update delivers important bug fixes and security updates. Apple notes that iOS 26.3 patches 39 security flaws and one of the flaws is already being used in real-life attacks against iPhone users. To give iPhone owners the time to update their handsets before attackers get the details of the security patches released by Apple, the tech giant decided not to reveal which flaws were patched.
Apple says that one dangerous iOS software flaw is being exploited now
Apple did reveal that the flaw already exploited in real life in iOS 26.3 was related to the Dynamic Link Editor (dyld), which is used in iOS and macOS to load and link dynamic libraries at runtime. It is the first code that runs when a program is launched on iOS or macOS. The flaw was assigned the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures number of CVE-2026-20700. On its support page, the tech giant wrote, “Apple is aware of a report that this issue may have been exploited in an extremely sophisticated attack against specific targeted individuals on versions of iOS before iOS 26.”
Apple released iOS 26.3 yesterday and says that you should install it immediately | Image by PhoneArena
If exploited, an attacker could execute arbitrary code. In layman’s terms, it means that the device has been tricked into running the instructions of the attacker instead of the instructions the device was supposed to run. The same vulnerability report released by Google Threat Analysis Group that outed this flaw also was behind the discovery of a pair of WebKit flaws that were patched in iOS 26.2.
Do not procrastinate; install iOS 26.3 now and this is why
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