HouseLannister
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Probably not. 50+ security fixes sounds like a lot, but they found just as many last year with 18.4.
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Apple's iOS 26.5 Update Patches More Than 50 Security Flaws
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B4U
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Fairly simple, to show Apple that I have a spine and will not bow down to such bad behavior.
If we do not take a stand, the companies are just continue to go down this path.
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ThomasJL
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Does anyone know if many of those same 50 security vulnerabilities exist in iOS 18.7.2 (which is the latest version of iOS 18 for iPhones that are capable of running iOS 26)?
I am going to wait a couple of weeks. Given Apple’s track record, you don’t know what they broke.
HouseLannister
macrumors 68040
Yes, plus you have the 35+ missing security fixes from 26.3 and the 35+ security fixes from 26.4. They backported some of those patches, but 18.7.2 is several versions behind now.
sw1tcher
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It seems these 50 security flaws are not as severe as the vulnerabilities related to DarkSword or Coruna exploits 😃
Almost 11 years of security updates for the iPhone 6s? That's impressive!
johannnn
macrumors 68030
You forgot that 26.0 and 26.1 and 26.2 and 26.3 and 26.4 also included security patches?
eveluvsrainbows
macrumors 6502a
I’ve been on Tahoe since last year. Everything works well. Its highly unlikely anything will break.
They aren’t even ads, really. They’re place recommendations. And they’re anonymized. Its no different from someone having a sponsor in a YouTube video. Additionally, you can very easily just ignore said recommendations by not tapping on them and scrolling right past them.
You do realize they are going to do it anyways? You’re one person out of billions of Apple users. You’re in the minority of people who actually care about these sponsored recommendations. And I don’t think spines have anything to do with “rejecting” something Apple is going to add regardless. Are you seriously going to stay on 26.4.1 until the end of time, over anonymized recommendations? The security issues that have been fixed outweigh getting sponsored place recommendations in the search tab.
Rafagon
macrumors 68000
If I was using the 26.5 latest beta (RC 2) and now that the final 26.5 is released, I'm not being prompted to update, does that mean that the build I had is the same number as the publicly released 26.5 from today?
sw1tcher
macrumors 604
And they all included Liquid Glass... a feature some people didn't want 😝
eveluvsrainbows
macrumors 6502a
Yes, that is indeed what it means; 23F77 is the final build of 26.5 and was released to everyone today, and it matches what was released as RC 2 last week.
Rafagon
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B4U
macrumors 601
And your point is?
"Recommendations", that are paid. Sure they are not "ads" (wait, what!?). Please continue to move that goal post if it fits your agenda.
I can scroll past them, but why exactly do I have to put up with the ensh!tification? Not to mention that I may accidentally touched them when scrolling.
They can do whatever the hell they want, but I can sure as hell do whatever I want on the device that I paid with my hard earn money too.
Just because I am in the minority, does not make me wrong.
Taking a stand against a bad practice sure is having a spine instead of giving in without trying. This is one kind of freedom that I fought for our country.
I sure will stay on 26.4.2 for as long as I want.
Lastly, you do realize that Apple also finally gave in for whatever reason they have on releasing iOS 18 to devices capable of iOS 26 just a few weeks ago.
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artifex
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Jimmy Bubbles
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eveluvsrainbows
macrumors 6502a
note how i said sponsored recommendations at the end of the post. also, there are far better and far more significant and important freedoms that have been fought for than being able to complain about what apple does with their software; and you didn’t fight for that, complaining has been a thing for a long, long, long time, it wasn’t “fought for” by you.
additionally, i hate sponsored stuff too (i pay for youtube premium for this exact reason, to avoid their avalanche of ads) but at the end of the day, they’re sponsored place recommendations. they’re not hurting you by existing, and for the people who want them, it allows people to potentially discover new places.
it isn’t a bad practice to allow businesses to promote themselves in a maps app. google does the same thing in a far more intrusive and data harvest-y way, which is why i never understood why when this was first announced people threatened to go back to google maps over this, when their ad implementation is far worse and significantly more intrusive; i stopped using google maps years ago for this exact reason, google has been known for a long time now to do whatever they can with your data as long as its allowed by u.s. laws and i don’t like google getting all of my data and using it in nefarious ways.
anyways, like i said: avoiding an update that fixes over 50 security vulnerabilities to avoid sponsored recommendations in the maps app, is silly.
