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Title: Apple might be requiring iPhone users to install iOS 26 for security fixes Post by: HCK on December 27, 2025, 04:05:04 pm Apple might be requiring iPhone users to install iOS 26 for security fixes
<div class="feat-image">(https://9to5mac.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2025/12/ios-26-2-settings.jpg?quality=82&strip=all&w=1600)</div><p>Apple released iOS 26.2 last week (https://9to5mac.com/2025/12/14/ios-26-2-new-features-iphone/) with important security fixes. At the same time, it also shipped iOS 18.7.3 (https://9to5mac.com/2025/12/12/apple-releases-ios-18-7-3-for-iphone-heres-whats-new/) for users who haven’t upgraded yet — at least in theory.</p> <p>In practice, Jason Snell at Six Colors (https://sixcolors.com/post/2025/12/apple-is-forcing-iphones-to-update-to-ios-26-to-patch-security-holes/) reports that some iPhone owners aren’t being offered the iOS 18 security update at all, and are instead being pushed straight to iOS 26. </p> <p><strong>Update</strong>: Here is a support document on Apple’s website (https://support.apple.com/en-us/125039) with more details about its software update rollouts. </p> <a data-layer-pagetype="post" data-layer-postcategory="ios-18,ios-26,ios-26-2" data-layer-viewtype="unknown" data-post-id="1033138" href="https://9to5mac.com/2025/12/19/ios-26-2-iios-18-7-3-update-options-security/#more-1033138" class="more-link">more…[/url] Source: Apple might be requiring iPhone users to install iOS 26 for security fixes (https://9to5mac.com/2025/12/19/ios-26-2-iios-18-7-3-update-options-security/) |