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  • The Blind tech motivator

    I came across that and I was like I don’t think that was real I wish somebody would try to control my phone microphone

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  • Gordon

    Yes, you know what people on Facebook are gonna do, try to scare everybody and give them misleading information. I turned mine off because I don't have an Apple Watch or a secondary device that I would use something like that for, so I'm just not interested in having it on.

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  • Gordon

    Now there is something that's very real, and I forgot to mention it in my main post. There was a bug that would allow some people remote access to your phone that Apple actually fixed in iOS 27.2, so it's really important that you have iOS 27.2 because they did fix a pretty large vulnerability in that version. I've heard some people out here talk about the fact that they're still on iOS 26, so for your own protection, I would strongly advise you to go update to iOS 27.2

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  • Gordon

    Here is more about the Apple Intelligence bug that they patched in 27.2 It was CVE-2026-86987 — the big one everyone was talking about when 27.2 dropped on Monday. Here's what Apple actually said in the security notes: - *Component:* Apple Intelligence - *What could happen:* "A remote attacker may be able to access sensitive user data" - *Who's affected:* Only phones that can run Apple Intelligence — iPhone 15 Pro and later, and the newer iPad Pro / Air / mini models - *Fix:* "Improved entitlement checks" — meaning Apple wasn't properly checking which apps/processes were allowed to ask Apple Intelligence for your personal context *In plain English:* Apple Intelligence touches your messages, photos, calendar, etc. to give you summaries and Siri answers. There was a flaw in how it checked permissions. A malicious website or app that talked to Apple Intelligence could trick it into handing over personal data it shouldn't have. It was reported by researcher Richard Hyunho Im at Route Zero Security. Apple says there's *no evidence anyone actually used it in the wild* — it was found by researchers, not by an attack. It was not a feature Apple turned on, it was a bug Apple closed. That's why 27.2 is the fix, not the problem. If you stayed on 27.0 or 27.1, you were still open to it. Since you're now on 27.2 and you turned off that Remote Control toggle you were worried about, you're patched on both fronts.

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