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iOS 16.7.1 launched on Tuesday to cope with a critical safety drawback within the older model of Apple’s iPhone working system. It’s for iPhone customers who haven’t but made the bounce to iOS 17.
There’s additionally an iPadOS model for tablets.
Don’t blow off this safety patch
iOS 17 debuted in September for each iPhone made up to now 5 years, however knowledge from an analytics agency exhibits {that a} important variety of iPhones nonetheless run some model of iOS 16. The just-released safety patch is for gadgets on this group if their house owners stay unwilling to improve to iOS 17.
iOS 16.7.1 is a patch as a result of it consists of no new options other than closing a safety gap. That is to the working system’s kernel and a warning from the corporate says, “Apple is conscious of a report that this subject might have been actively exploited in opposition to variations of iOS earlier than iOS 16.6.”
A second, much less vital, safety drawback can be handled.
iPadOS 16.7.1 consists of the identical safety fixes.
That is the newest in a string of safety patches for iOS 16 popping out of Apple not too long ago. That features iOS 16.7, iOS 16.6.1, iOS 16.6 and iOS 16.5.1.
The right way to set up iOS 16.7.1 and iPadOS 16.7.1
iPhone or iPad customers can set up iOS 16.7.1 or iPadOS 16.7.1 by way of an over-the-air replace by opening the Settings app and going to Common -> Software program Replace. Alternatively, join the gadget to a Mac, or to a PC operating iTunes, to put in the brand new model.