…we decided that iOS 12.5.6 was an important update to get:Īpple patches everything, finally reveals mystery of iOS 16.1.2 Given that the iOS 12 bug fixed back then was in WebKit, Apple’s web rendering engine that’s used in all web browsers on iDevices, not just in Safari given that real-world attackers were already known to be exploiting the hole given that browser bugs almost always mean that merely looking at an apparently innocent and unimportant-looking web page could be enough to implant spyware on your phone in the background… Last year, on the last day of August 2022, we wrote with mild astonishment, and perhaps even a tiny touch of excitement, about an unexpected but rather important update for iPhones stuck back on iOS 12.Īs we remarked at the time, we’d already decided that iOS 12 had slipped (or perhaps been quietly pushed) off Apple’s radar, and would never be updated again, give that the previous update had been a year before that, back in September 2021.īut we had to scrap that decision when iOS 12.5.6 appeared unexpectedly, fixing a mysterious zero-day bug that had been patched several weeks earlier in Apple’s other products.
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