Apple iPhone 16 Users Get Major Warning From Indian Govt: Should You Be Worried?
iPhone security risk has been issued by Apple and the Indian government is warning people about the threat posed by these issues which can be exploited by hackers.
Apple users are facing one of their biggest security issues which has even alerted the Indian government in April 2025. The company has released new updates for a slew of devices and it is vital that millions of iPhone 16 and older models are upgraded to the next version to protect themselves from possible hacking threats.
The Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) has issued the alert with a high severity rating, dated April 4, 2025. The new warning is likely to worry a major chunk of iPhones, iPads, Apple Watch series and Mac users. Here is a detailed look at the vulnerability, which devices are impacted and how to secure your iPhone from possible threats.
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iPhone 16 Security Risk: What Is The Issue
The CERT-In note explains that, “multiple vulnerabilities have been reported in Apple products due to Type confusion error; Use after free error; Out-of-bounds read; Out-of-bounds write issue; Improper Parsing of file; Issue in input validation; Buffer overflow, Path handling flaws." All these are important components of these devices and exploiting these issues could make it easy for the hacker to bypass the security of your device and steal confidential data.
The warning is clearly aimed at people and businesses who use iOS, macOS and iPadOS devices among others.
Apple Security Warning: Who Should Worry?
The security note also tells us which Apple OS versions are at risk because of these major issues:
- Apple Safari versions prior to 18.4
- Apple Xcode versions prior to 16.3
- Apple iOS versions prior to 18.4
- Apple iPadOS versions prior to 18.4
- Apple iPadOS versions prior to 17.7.6
- Apple iOS versions prior to 16.7.11
- Apple iPadOS versions prior to 16.7.11
- Apple iOS versions prior to 15.8.4
- Apple iPadOS versions prior to 15.8.4
- Apple macOS Sequoia versions prior to 15.4
- Apple macOS Sonoma versions prior to 14.7.5
- Apple macOS Ventura versions prior to 13.7.5
- Apple tvOS versions prior to 18.4
- Apple visionOS versions prior to 2.4
- Apple Security Risk: Update Now
Apple is proactive with its major security patches and once again, you have them available for iPhone, iPads, MacBooks and more. You can go to General – Settings – Software update to install the new update and secure your devices.
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