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I'm keeping it there to remind me to stay defiant against the shittier UI. I'll wait until they can put it on a user switch or create a more readable option for older users. Which will probably be 'never'.
I’m on the same boat. I was forced to update to the shitty UI at work, but not on my personal phone.
I wish I had a better sense of how these zero-click vulnerabilities work so I could get a sense of how to protect myself from them (you know, without giving in to Liquid Glass). Can they be blocked by an ad blocker? Are they blocked by any extant ad blockers? What about “Lockdown Mode”?
It's a watering hole attack. At any point your iphone sends an http request to a compromised site, by add, link, embedded, etc. your device will be exploited. there really isn't a way to permanently defeat this. We are about to see an explosion of novel attack types utilizing this exploit as their basis, you realistically cannot defend yourself against these without either updating or no longer using an iphone.
Why are we about to see an explosion?
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Apple used to have a really good security record, it's mind boggling they blew it all up just to force Liquid Glass on users. For those not in the loop, Apple used to provide security patches for supported older iOS versions. They changed a lot of behavior around the release of Liquid Glass (iOS 26, MacOS Tahoe). Starting with iOS 18.7.3, they only release patch versions for the iPhone XS and XR. They've repeated thi…
Those trillions of dollars aren't going to find their way into the pockets of the shareholders if they have to pay some rubes to maintain old stuff!
I'm really hoping Apple backtracks on its refusal to update the 18.x line for phones that are compatible with 26. At least provide a security update.
Apple should stop doing security by obscurity in the first place. People have no way finding out whether their phones have been compromised. Lockdown mode is just a cope mechanism for phones likely already compromised and there is no guarantee lockdown mode cannot be bypassed. Apple hardware is inherently insecure and it is bizarre that Apple keeps burying their head in the sand.
More than non-obscure phones, laptops, desktops… washing machines, robot vacuums, doorbells, you name it
Welp, I've been holding on out that liquid glass crap as long possible. Guess my phone is just going to suck now.
If it's really as bad as all that, they'll patch existing older releases.
Apple of 2026 is not the same Apple of 2025. The people at Apple have held back iOS 18.7.3, iOS 18.7.4, iOS 18.7.5, or iOS 18.7.6 for most iPhones that support iOS 18.
These are dozens of CVEs patched in these updates, including numerous exploits as bad or worse than the one described in this one. (Article is paywalled so I couldn't read it, so I am getting the details from Google's post https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/dar...
- CVE-2025-43541, CVE-2025-43501 WebKit zero day https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/15/apple_follows_google_... (iOS 18.7.3)
- CVE-2025-43529 and CVE-2025-14174, mentioned in the article (iOS 18.7.3)
- The dyld exploit fixed in iOS 18.7.5, and the exploit in this article https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/12/apple_ios_263/ (iOS 18.7.5)
Unfortunately, in iOS 26, there is a new bug where Lockdown Mode breaks call recording, which is something I rely on. Something to weigh for anyone on iOS 18 who is considering installing iOS 26.
Welp, I've been holding on out that liquid glass crap as long possible. Guess my phone is just going to suck now.
Apple is probably going to issue an update for 18. Heck they released a security update for coruna on 15.x last week. Same thing maybe?
All these exploits and we still can't get proper jailbreaks on new iOS versions :( I moved away from Android years ago in the interest of digital privacy so it's just wonderful to hear security isn't as tight as I'd hoped haha.. Then again I guess those like myself staying on the bleeding edge version-wise aren't affected.