The Notification Trap: How Apple’s New iOS Patch Blocks Forensic Recovery of “Deleted” Signal Messages
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Apple released iOS 26.4.2 (and iOS 18.7.8 for legacy devices) to patch CVE-2026-28950, a flaw in iOS notification storage that could retain deleted notifications and allow extraction of message content; prosecutors presented Signal chat logs recovered via FBI forensic tools in a criminal case, and Signal’s default notification previews exacerbated the risk—users are advised to disable previews to protect message content.
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