Though not mentioned during Apple’s keynote this week, one of the important features being added to the new iPhone 17 lineup and the iPhone Air is a security feature that will make it easier to fight spyware.
As reported by BGR, the new Memory Integrity Enforcement (MIE) feature was detailed in a research report published by Apple. The report covers how the feature both strengthens security and makes iOS devices less vulnerable to spyware by ensuring that only trusted code can run in protected memory; this stymies efforts to inject malicious code on the handsets. Apple has been working on the enhancement for roughly five years, and says in the report that it “represents the most significant upgrade to memory safety in the history of consumer operating systems.”
