Security News > 2023 > January > Apple patches are out – old iPhones get an old zero-day fix at last!

Last year, on the last day of August 2022, we wrote with mild astonishment, and perhaps even a tiny touch of excitement, about an unexpected but rather important update for iPhones stuck back on iOS 12.

As we remarked at the time, we'd already decided that iOS 12 had slipped off Apple's radar, and would never be updated again, give that the previous update had been a year before that, back in September 2021.

Well, here's some déjà vu all over again: Apple's latest updates just dropped, and as far as we can tell, there's only one zero-day fix amongst the updates, and once again it's for iOS 12!

No other devices in the Apple stable got updated, not even iOS 15, the previous version of iOS that some users stuck to by choice, and others because their older phones couldn't be upgraded to iOS 16.

As you already know, because we mentioned the bug number above, there's now a belated zero-day patch, for that very same bug, that applies to Apple's oldest extant iOS flavour, namely iOS 12.

As usually happens with Mac updates, there's a new version of the WebKit rendering engine and the Safari browser, dubbed Safari 16.3, presumably to match the biggest product version number on the list above, namely iOS 16.3 and iPadOS 16.3.

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https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2023/01/24/apple-patches-are-out-old-iphones-get-an-old-zero-day-fix-at-last/