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Updated on January 16th with new data about Apple’s iOS 26 upgrade issues.
This is not an option. Apple warns that iPhone attack is in progress and has released fixes to keep our users safe. The bad news is that hundreds of millions of these users are now at risk. Check out your iPhone now. If a reboot is required, please do so now.
[設定]>[一般]>[ソフトウェア アップデート]Move to. If your iPhone isn’t running iOS 26.2 or iOS 18.7.3,[設定]>[一般]>[シャットダウン]and turn off your device. Alternatively, press and hold either the Volume button or the Side button until you see the power off slider. ” apple says. If that doesn’t work, you can do the following force restart.
Considering that the latest data suggests that 50% of all eligible iPhone users The situation is urgent because no upgrades have yet been made to ensure these fixes. Resistance to the iOS 26 upgrade stems from Apple’s decision Make the fix available only to upgraded iPhones and newer. It’s no longer possible to stick to iOS 18.
Restarting will kill any spyware running on your iPhone. At least until the spyware automatically persists or is reloaded to repeat the actions that started the software running on your iPhone in the first place.
Apple warns that the attack is highly targeted, so while most users may not be affected, this is a dangerous defense. The WebKit exploit behind the latest attacks will be more widely deployed and target even more users.
If you’re not comfortable with iOS 26, you should definitely upgrade. Otherwise, you’ll need to restart your iPhone every week, at least until you update to one of the two versions of iOS. Until Apple reveals its iOS 26 upgrade numbers, we won’t know how close the analyst data is to the actual numbers. However, there is no need to worry. We recommend rebooting regularly anyway.
on the other hand, Latest StatCounter data A January 16 survey showed that iOS 26 adoption remains well below 20%, and these numbers are currently under review.
ars technica “We took a high-level look at all iPhone traffic across all Condé Nast websites for October, November, and December of 2025.” And while “iOS 26 has slower adoption than iOS 18 the year before,” it’s not as devastating a drop as StatCounter’s data suggests.
mashablefirst digs into these numbers and says, “The adoption numbers are wrong.” That’s because “there’s actually a bug in the reporting system and it’s Apple’s fault.”
Simply put, the problem is that the Safari identification tag detected by analysts to measure the OS version number when the browser loads a website is reporting iOS 18 even though the device has been upgraded to iOS 26. This may violate Safari’s fingerprinting defenses, which intentionally obfuscate data. Alternatively, you may be violating another intentional measure to ensure broad compatibility for Safari users accessing your site when using the new OS.
This mistake does not affect Chrome or other browsers on the iPhone, only Safari.
While the numbers aren’t as grim, there are still hundreds of millions of iPhones that have yet to be upgraded. The corrected data is ars technica he said.do That said, early adopters seemed to be behaving as expected.
“Our data shows that by December 2024, 76 percent of iPhone Safari pageviews had migrated to iOS 18 devices, compared to just 45 percent on iOS 26 in December 2025.”