Apple released a software update fixing a security bug that allowed law enforcement to extract deleted or disappeared messages from iPhones using forensic tools. The bug caused notification content to be cached on the device for up to a month, even after messages were deleted from apps like Signal. The FBI exploited this vulnerability to recover deleted Signal messages from a suspect's iPhone.
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Apple fixes bug that cops used to extract deleted chat messages from iPhones
Apple patches a month-long notification caching bug that law enforcement exploited to recover deleted Signal messages from suspects' iPhones, restoring privacy protections for encrypted messaging.
Wednesday, April 22, 2026 12:00 PM UTC2 MIN READSOURCE: TechCrunchBY sys://pipeline
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