Apple Fixed An iPhone Flaw That Allowed The FBI To Read Deleted Notifications

Apple Fixed An iPhone Flaw That Allowed The FBI To Read Deleted Notifications

Apple's iOS 26.4.2 update patches a flaw that allowed law enforcement to recover deleted push notifications from iPhones using forensic tools.

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Apple patches bug that exposed deleted Signal messages

Signal's disappearing messages weren't fully disappearing. When a message arrived on your iPhone, iOS stored the notification content in an internal database — and that database held onto the text for up to a month after you deleted the message inside Signal. — Read the rest The post Apple patches bug that exposed deleted Signal messages appeared first on Boing Boing.

Apple Fixes iPhone Notification Bug Used by FBI

Apple’s iOS 26.4.2 update fixes a critical flaw (CVE-2026-28950) that allowed the FBI to recover deleted Signal messages from the iPhone notification database.Read More...