iOS: Apple patches 163 security flaws, including those used in the iPhone Duo jailbreak

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According to Calif, most of the vulnerabilities behind the iPhone Duo jailbreak have also been patched. Jan Gruber ( translated by Jan Gruber), Published 10/27/2026 🇩🇪 iOS iPad iPhone Security Software Apple rolled out iOS 27.2 and iPadOS 27.2 on Monday evening, and this time the update is above all one thing: a big repair job. Apple is a software and consumer electronics company based in Cupertino.

Apple's security page lists 163 CVE IDs for iPhone and iPad, and across all of Apple's platforms 9to5Mac counts at least 329 closed vulnerabilities. Apple does not say that any of these flaws have been actively exploited.

Four entries are credited to Calif, the team that demonstrated a jailbreak of the iPhone Duo on launch day. Apple credits three further findings to Anthropic Research and four to OpenAI: AI-assisted bug hunting has arrived in everyday patching.

Apple Intelligence, Mail and WebKit As usual, WebKit accounts for the largest block: 34 entries concern the browser engine and its related components, plus 15 kernel flaws. Jailbreak bugs and AI bug hunters The acknowledgements are telling.

Calif researcher Stefan Esser told MacRumors that iOS 27.2 fixes most of the vulnerabilities used for it – bad news for jailbreak fans, good news for everyone else. What else the update brings Besides the fixes, there are a few features.

Multiview comes to the iPhone, letting you follow up to four live streams from the Apple TV subscription at once, such as MLS matches – Formula 1, however, only in the US. Anyone still avoiding iOS 27 gets many of the security fixes with iOS 26.7.2.