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Your iPhone might have been keeping deleted messages without you knowing until Apple quietly fixed it in iOS 26.4.2

Your iPhone may have been holding onto Signal messages long after you deleted them, and the FBI actually used that to pull ...

iOS 26.4.2: Apple Issues Unexpected iPhone Update To Block FBI Data Extraction Method

Apple has released a new iPhone update — that has taken many by surprise — to address a vulnerability that was recently ...

Apple fixes bug that cops used to extract deleted chat messages from iPhones

The iPhone and iPad bug allowed law enforcement using forensic tools to read messages that had long been deleted by the ...

iOS 26.4.2 Patches Flaw That Let FBI Extract Deleted Signal Messages

The iOS 26.4.2, iPadOS 26.4.2, iOS 18.7.8, and iPadOS 18.7.8 updates that Apple released today address a security ...

Did Apple Just Fix the iPhone Bug That Let the FBI Recover Deleted Signal Messages?

Apple's latest iPhone update patches a bug that would let previously-deleted notifications remain on-device—possibly the same ...

Notification bug that let FBI access messages patched with iOS 26.4.2

People being investigated by the FBI deleted Signal, but some messages were still retrievable from the iPhone's notification ...

Apple fixes iOS bug that retained deleted notification data

Apple has released out-of-band security updates for iPhone and iPad devices to fix a Notification Services flaw that could allow notifications marked for deletion to remain stored on the device.