The Biggest Risks in Putting Off iPhone and Android Software Updates

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The Biggest Risks in Putting Off iPhone and Android Software Updates
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Apple and Google update smartphone operating systems more often these days, for good reason. Don’t delay.

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Big annual OS updates may have the flashier and more reported on new features, but security protection is a major reason why users should download all new software updates available for their phone. Smaller, incremental updates, are released primarily to fix bugs and ensure users greater protection.

"Hopefully, you're not using those across boundaries because this is one area of attack that has been used where, let's say an administrator for an organization is targeted specifically through their personal accounts and that personal account access is used to gain corporate access," Moriarty said. Companies also have developed software updates that can occur behind the scenes on a phone without a user having to download them. In Apple's release of iOS 16.2, the operating system is now able to push out security updates between the incremental updates with a new feature called"Rapid Security Response."

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