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Apple’s iOS 26.4.2 Quietly Patches Notification Glitch Exposed by FBI’s Signal Message Hunt
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Apple’s iOS 26.4.2 Quietly Patches Notification Glitch Exposed by FBI’s Signal Message Hunt

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Apple rolled out iOS 26.4.2 on April 22, 2026. The update targets a specific flaw in Notification Services. Notifications marked for deletion lingered on devices. A logging problem kept them there, despite user actions to wipe them out. Impact clear. Devices from iPhone 11 onward, plus various iPads, affected. Apple fixed it with better data redaction. CVE-2026-28950 tags the vulnerability, as detailed on their security content page . Apple told 9to5Mac it learned of reports where push notifications stuck around on-device after deletion. The company pinpointed the issue. iOS 26.4.2 not only plugs the hole. It also scrubs any lingering copies retroactively. But why now? Court testimony lit the fuse. FBI agents pulled deleted Signal message previews from an iPhone’s notification database. The phone belonged to Lynette Sharp, tied to vandalism at an ICE facility in Texas. Sharp had ditched the Signal app. Messages set to vanish. Yet previews persisted because they showed on the Lock Screen.…

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