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Apple Fixes iPhone Bug After FBI Retrieved Signal Messages

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Feed Name: TechRepublic Security

Threat Score
50/100

Date Published: 2026-04-23

Date Updated: 2026-04-23

Author: Joseph Ofonagoro

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Apple released iOS/iPadOS/macOS 26.4.2 to address CVE-2026-28950, a privacy bug in Notification Services where notifications marked for deletion could be unexpectedly retained and exposed — the FBI reportedly extracted Signal messages from notification storage after the app was deleted; Apple’s fix improves message redaction so retained notification records no longer contain meaningful data.

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