Apple has blocked a Bluetooth assault carried out with the Flipper Zero that despatched a barrage of pop-ups to iPhones, inflicting them to lock up and crash. Whereas Apple hasn’t formally introduced the change, it seems the corporate has rolled out a repair in iOS 17.2, in response to assessments from ZDNET and 9to5Mac.
Till now, the one approach to forestall the assaults was to utterly disable Bluetooth on the iPhone, but it surely appears to be like like Apple has lastly addressed the vulnerability. When trying to lock up an iPhone operating iOS 17.2 with the Flipper Zero, each ZDNET and 9to5Mac discovered that only some pop-ups appeared on the system. Fortuitously, the variety of notifications wasn’t sufficient to trigger the system to crash.
We nonetheless don’t know precisely what Apple did to make the repair, however The Verge reached out to Apple with a request for extra data, and we’ll replace this text if we hear again. For now, although, it’s a good suggestion to replace your iPhone to iOS 17.2 in the event you haven’t already.