Not security updates; itagv2 and bug fixes for 18 and 26, and certificate updates for 12 and 15 to keep stuff that requires an Apple ID functioning post-2026..
this post was submitted on 27 Jan 2026
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This changes things, do you know of somewhere where the exact contents is released/discussed?
The official Apple release pages have some general details, and there’s a writeup on Ars Technica tha’s based off of Apple’s published info.
I don’t think these updates are security updates though?
I thought that was just laziness by the Apple web team. So there are serious bugs out there for Apple devices and Apple won’t tell us which are affected or give updates to anything other than their latest iOS?
My praise may have been premature.
Apple sometimes takes a day to publish them. Kinda annoying.
Added support for the new AirTag 2.
And yet devices that could benefit from iOS 18.x releases beyond 18.7.2 are being held in abeyance by Apple as a forcing function to get users who are unwilling or unable to abide iOS 26 to migrate...
Just updated from 18 to 26. Absolutely nothing about it is better.
There is nothing of value in iOS 26. If your device has AI then there's some things.
In fact I would argue it's almost universally worse in almost every single way. I wholesale regret updating.
With the departure of Alan Dye from Apple (https://daringfireball.net/2025/12/bad_dye_job ) hopefully sanity will return to their UI/UX, but it might take a few iOS versions (read: years) to break the glass.