Peter N LewisSo just so we're clear, my iPhone running last years iOS and I get to choose: Upgrade to Ugly Glass or risk exposing basically everything on the phone including passwords to any web site. Wow, that's really an impressive new low for Apple.
DrussTheLegume@peternlewis I think that sums it up nicely. Ugly Glass (great term) is, imo, a dreadful triumph of Apple GroupThink. I’ve reached the point where I don’t want options to dial it down, I just want to revert the UI to something designed by an adult.
jwz@peternlewis I'm just hoping that my 2016 iPhone (really) is beneath contempt
Stories of Apple@jwz @peternlewis an iPhone SE, I presume. 🤔
Asta [AMP]@peternlewis I took the ugly glass upgrade. I'm not sure that was the wise choice.
Francesco Marini@peternlewis sloppy reporting, as usual.
Google has a more in depth analysis, with a lot more information on the specific versions of iOS that are affected.
TL;DR It doesn’t seem to affect 18.7.3 at least (might also not work on 18.7.2 given that CVE-2025-43520, which DarkSword uses, has been patched in .2).
https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/darksword-ios-exploit-chain
tripleman, a 🇨🇦 in 🇩🇪@fmarini OK, cool, but, where is 18.7.3? I'm running 18.7.1 and the only option shown to me in Software Update is 26.3.1.
I have automatically install Security Responses turned on and I have iOS updates "automatically download" also on.
According to Wikipedia, 18.7.6 was released *twenty days ago* 🤷♂️.
@tripleman you could try switching on iOS 18 public beta, it might (might, not sure) give you the option for 18.7.2 or 18.7.3. If it doesn’t, I guess you’re of luck, since from 18.7.4 on (or maybe even 18.7.3; I got it before they “forced” the 26 update for newer phones) it looks like they’re only for iPhone XR and XS 🤷🏼♂️
@fmarini Turned on 18 Beta updates and it says 18.7.1 iOS is up to date.
Soooooo, not so sloppy reporting.
@tripleman it is sloppy, because the ones on 18.7.2 and up aren’t affected, contrary to the “18 is affected” narrative.
@fmarini Well, only a small subset of phones can get further than 18.7.1 so, this is the reality for most users that want to stay on it.
@tripleman I’m on 18.7.3 on a 13 Pro. Every iPhone up to 16 received it, until Apple decided to make 18.7.3+ XR and XS only. So the ones that received either 18.7.2 or 18.7.3 and still haven’t upgraded to 26 are safe to stay on 18.7.x.
Saying that all 18.x are not safe is simply not true.
zıəs uɐɟəʇs ✪@peternlewis „low“ sounds like a compliment.
R.L. Dane 
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Remember when Apple was the paragon of #UIDesign? 😥
I was using my aunt's iPhone yesterday and couldn't for the life of me figure out how to access the tabs on safari on iOS 26. I had to go into the settings and turn on the regular footer bar.
Firefox (and forks) on Android have this beat: The footer appears until you start scrolling, and then reappears the second you scroll up for a bit.
Done. Fixed. Almost perfect. No need for ridiculous inscrutable UI.
Allie!@peternlewis you could turn on lockdown mode and avoid this entirely. In daily use it barely affects anything other than links in messages and receiving files via messages.
Human Brain Enthusiast@peternlewis They updated iOS 18 as well (the vulnerability is fixed at least from iOS 18.7.3 onwards, current version is iOS 18.7.6).
paulrickards@thomasfuchs @peternlewis Problem I have is it's not offered to me in software update. Only iOS 26. Do you know a way to install the latest iOS 18 on 13 Pro Max?
@paulrickards @peternlewis what version of iOS 18 are you on?
fwiw critical security updates are normally installed transparently btw without you even being able to opt out; if your phone supports iOS 26, I think the last update it can get is 18.7.3 but I might be wrong (18.7.3 should be safe)
In any event I 100% agree that it's ridiculous; they shouldn't force major version updates.
Why even have major versions if they treat it in sort of a continuous, version-less fashion.
(Also, I'd like to be able to go back to iOS 18.)
@thomasfuchs Below that 18.7.3 threshold unfortunately.
@paulrickards @thomasfuchs same here, and the only way "up" is iOS 26. -___-
@thomasfuchs yes, but I can't update to 18.7, it only offers me an update to 26.x.
ChrisR@peternlewis I'm in the same boat, and can't even update to 18.7.n from the vulnerable 18.5! My wife upgraded accidentally and now can't do lots of things she used to be able to (I'm sure they are there, just hidden away).