Security News > 2022 > April > Apple pushes out two emergency 0-day updates – get ’em now!

Apple, as ever, isn't saying anything about the platforms that didn't get updates, so it's impossible to say whether they're immune and thus unaffected, affected but simply being ignored, or affected and still awaiting updates that will show up in a few days.

Intriguingly, Apple's core Security Updates page at HT201222 reports that there are updates denoted tvOS 15.4.1 and watchOS 8.5.1, but Apple merely remarks that these updates have "No published CVE entries".

There's no detail about what types of security flaw, if any, were addressed in the Apple Watch and Apple TV patches, so we can't tell you whether these updates have any common ground with the zero-day fixes for Apple's phones, tablets, laptops and desktop computers.

Apple's mobile devices are locked down much more tightly by default than computers running macOS, and while you can increase security on macOS, you aren't supposed to be able to reduce security on iOS and iPadOS to bypass those default restrictions.

Most Apple users go for automatic updating, but that doesn't mean you automatically get the update right away.

Apple understandably spreads out the delivery of its updates to prevent every Apple device in the world trying to update at exactly the same moment, which would clog up the process and slow things down, on average, for everyone.

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