While this is happening, Apple capriciously refuses to allow users to install iOS 18.7.6 on iPhone 11 and later, because they want to force Liquid Glass on everyone. Those devices are stuck on iOS 18.7.2, which is vulnerable to this attack, unless they update all the way to 26.
Critical security patches should not be held hostage this way. It's making people unsafe for no reason and that's unconscionable.
This page shows when each model iPhone stopped getting updates to iOS 18: https://theapplewiki.com/wiki/Firmware/iPhone/18.x
Only iPhone XR and XS are still getting iOS 18 security patches at this point. The patches exist and they could run on the newer phones, but Apple says no.
Do we need someone to jailbreak iOS 18.7.2 just so that we can install legitimate security patches on it? After all, it looks like there are exploits already in the wild, so it seems possible that maybe one of them could be leveraged to gain root.
Maybe we can crowdfund it somehow? It would really highlight the absurdity of the situation.
dmd
