Thankfully, they are highly targeted at certain businesses, dissents and journalists. If people take notice, they are more likely to apply the fix.īoth of the issues fixed in iOS 17.1.2 were reported Clément Lecigne of Google's Threat Analysis Group, indicating they could have been used in spyware-related attacks.Īttacks utilizing spyware are scary, because they often take place without any interaction from the user, via an iMessage, for example. The iPhone maker also sees the advantage of alerting people to iOS 17.1.2, rather than pushing out updates in the background. However, a few months ago, the iPhone maker was left red-faced after having to pull one of these updates when it broke something else, so I suspect that Apple doesn’t want to risk the same thing happening again.

Interestingly, iOS 17.1.2 hasn’t been issued as a Rapid Security Response update-a new feature designed to push out important security fixes.

However, if you haven’t updated to iOS 17 yet and have a compatible device, I recommend you upgrade to iOS 17.1.2 now. Apple said the issue was exploited on iPhones running iOS 16.7.1, so devices on iOS 16.7.2 may not be impacted. At the time of writing, there is no update to iOS 16, beyond already available iOS 16.7.2.

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