ByKate O'Flaherty,
Senior Contributor.
Apple has released iOS 26.1, along with a warning to update now. The iOS 26.1 update comes with a bunch of new features, but it also includes a whopping 56 security fixes for iPhone users.
Apple doesn’t provide much detail about what’s fixed in iOS 26.1, to allow as many users as possible to update before attackers can get hold of the details. But among the issues patched in iOS 26.1 are multiple flaws in WebKit, the engine that underpins the Safari browser. Tracked as CVE-2025-43495, one of the flaws could see an app able to monitor keystrokes without user permission, according to the iPhone maker’s support page.
Meanwhile, a flaw in the Kernel at the heart of the iOS operating system could see an app able to cause unexpected system termination.
