Apple fixes bug that cops used to extract deleted chat messages from iPhones
4 hours ago
- #FBI forensic tools
- #Signal privacy bug
- #Apple security update
- Apple released a software update fixing a bug that allowed law enforcement to extract deleted or disappeared messages.
- The bug involved notifications displaying message content being cached on devices for up to a month.
- This issue was highlighted after the FBI reportedly extracted deleted Signal messages from an iPhone.
- Signal's president urged Apple to address the issue, stating notifications for deleted messages shouldn't remain.
- Privacy activists alarmed that FBI bypassed a security feature used by at-risk users.
- Apple backported the fix to older iOS 18 versions but didn't comment on why notifications were retained.