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Amber Bouman

Apple Passwords app affected by critical bug — update to iOS 18.2 now

Software Update menu on iPhone showing iOS 18.2 ready to download.

If you have an iPhone or iPad, you should update to iOS 18.2 now. Go ahead, we’ll wait. While it’s downloading, let us tell you about a critical flaw in Apple's Passwords app that needs to be patched immediately.

In iOS 18, Apple revealed the Passwords app which is a built-in password manager for all your login data. Recently though, a pair of security researchers on X shared a vulnerability they found in the way the Passwords app has been communicating with external websites.

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