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iOS 18.4.1 patches two iPhone security flaws used in 'extremely sophisticated' attacks


The security update is also available for iPad, Mac, Vision Pro and Apple TV.

Apple is aware of a report that both security issues "may have been exploited in an extremely sophisticated attack against specific targeted individuals on iOS." That flaw allowed an attacker with arbitrary read / write capabilities to bypass Pointer Authentication (a security feature in Apple's processors). TikTok is adding “Footnotes,” a Community Notes-like feature that will allow contributors to add “more context” to videos on the platform.

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