Apple has launched new safety fixes for iPhones and iPads within the type of iOS 18.3.1 and iPadOS 18.3.1. In keeping with Apple’s launch notes, these updates patch an actively exploited safety flaw within the USB Restricted Mode function, which requires customers to unlock their gadgets periodically to proceed utilizing USB knowledge connections through a tool’s Lightning or USB-C port.

Apple says that the vulnerability, labeled CVE-2025-24200, “might have been exploited in an especially subtle assault in opposition to particular focused people.” We do not know something extra particular about who these people are or why they may have been focused.

Apple has additionally provided an equivalent repair for older iPads within the type of iPadOS 17.7.5, which remains to be being up to date on previous fashions just like the 2nd-generation 12.9-inch iPad Professional, the ten.5-inch iPad Professional, and the Sixth-generation iPad.

Apple has launched updates for a few of its different working methods, too: macOS Sequoia 15.3.1, macOS Sonoma 14.7.4, macOS Ventura 13.7.4, watchOS 11.3.1, and visionOS 2.3.1. The corporate’s security updates page says these releases do not repair any at present printed CVEs, however there’s all the time an opportunity this might change in a while as extra CVEs are disclosed.