Fixing security issues that are quite complex and might only be found at some point down the line through some extensive "hacking" or other methods by various individuals or teams in that field doesn't really mean things are prematurely available.
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Apple Releases iOS 9.3.5 With Fix for Three Critical Vulnerabilities Exploited by Hacking Group
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Yeah and 9.3.3 just shortly before 9.3.4. Nice to see them doing so though! OOH and I can now add to my "iOS versions released on Thursdays list"
Of course nothing is ever perfect but the last few years have proven iOS has tons of bugs because of the huge changes that come every year. So we either have less features and less bugs, or more features and wait longer to have the bugs and glitches fixed.
Ah look at the update for the article :
Update: According to The New York Times, today's iOS update patches three security vulnerabilities that may have been exploited by surveillance software created by NSO Group to do things like read text messages and emails and track calls and contracts.
All of you who expect software to be close to perfect at launch, here's another problem to fix: for profit groups scouring code for vulnerabilities to exploit like this. Once you get that part fixed, please share with every single software company in the world.
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You can't please all the people all the time. Take a look over at Android. Not perfect, huge bugs as well. Perhaps moving back to a flip phone is the best choice then, few features but software that has few bugs.
Update: According to The New York Times, today's iOS update patches three security vulnerabilities that may have been exploited by surveillance software created by NSO Group to do things like read text messages and emails and track calls and contracts.
All of you who expect software to be close to perfect at launch, here's another problem to fix: for profit groups scouring code for vulnerabilities to exploit like this. Once you get that part fixed, please share with every single software company in the world.
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You can't please all the people all the time. Take a look over at Android. Not perfect, huge bugs as well. Perhaps moving back to a flip phone is the best choice then, few features but software that has few bugs.
Hmmmm will lay of this one for a while before updating the 4 devices in our household. See if it breaks anything..
Oh and as to those who say you can always choose not to update, well, yes you can, if you accept the big message every time you unlock your device telling you to update!! And this is after the 24 hours roll back time expires.
So I wonder how many people do update when they see that, realise it makes their device really really slow or breaks something and they cannot uninstall it, and Apple gloats how many people are on iOS version whatever!
Oh and as to those who say you can always choose not to update, well, yes you can, if you accept the big message every time you unlock your device telling you to update!! And this is after the 24 hours roll back time expires.
So I wonder how many people do update when they see that, realise it makes their device really really slow or breaks something and they cannot uninstall it, and Apple gloats how many people are on iOS version whatever!
Well that's good news to be sure that Apple actually jumped on a security issue fairly quickly this time.
What's remarkable and sad is that some still view this as a negative and an opportunity to criticize Apple. Not a shocker I suppose.
Where is iOS 8 and earlier security fix? Not all of us can run iOS 9&10
I think they have done it once in the past, but it was for a pretty major bug. If the bug is significant enough I think they will.
If they don't release fixes fast when some minor thing gets blown out of proportion and doesn't apply to every user, people complain.
Now we are upset with too many updates?
The crack/jailbreak specialists are working on breaking iOS every day, so as things come up Apple fixes them
And, for FREE!
That's pretty much the nature of essentially anonymous online forums (and the like) for you.
Exactly, many people still use their iPad2 and iPad3 devices who won't make it to iOS 10.
Or...their SW is getting more buggy
I don't see that.
Yeah, some people are too negative.
What are those? Not that I will currently but one day I won't put the latest on the iPads or iPod Touch as it could slow them down.
All software needs fixes. Period. The sooner you get used to that idea, the better.
It essentially just came up in another thread about updates so I'll link to that discussion/post: https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...-2-and-ios-9-3-3.1989728/page-2#post-23280166
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Updating would do it
Judging by how late this update is to the table - there's likely to be an immediate update to the iPhone 7 iOS 10 on launch day.