hi everyone Aaron here for zollotech and today apple is still supporting up to nine-year-old
devices apple today surprised us all by releasing ios 12.5.6 to the public this is available to all
ios 12 supported devices that can't get ios 13 which means iphone 5s that i have here again 9
years old or so iphone 6 iphone 6 plus ipad air ipad mini 2 ipad mini 3 and ipod touch
6th generation the update should be available over the air all around the world at the same
time right now so apple is still supporting this and since they are i thought we'd take
a look at it and as you can see this came in at a fairly small 285.6 megabytes on the iphone 6
and that's probably larger than you may have for an update because this is actually
a device that wasn't updated to ios 12.5.5 either and as you can see it says this update provides
important security updates and is recommended for all users so let's go ahead and take a look at
the build number and then we'll talk about what those updates are so we'll go to settings then
we'll go down to general then about and if we tap on the version number you can see the build is 16
h71 and this particular build like it said earlier is for a security update so apple is still pushing
security updates and we can see that if we go into safari within safari we'll refresh the page here
you'll see it's loading you can tell it's an older version as the address bar is at the top
and of course you can customize that today however if we scroll down you'll see ios 12.5.6 and what
it's available for all the devices i mentioned earlier so if we go into this apple will show
us exactly what's in this update and it says it's available for webkit it's fixing an issue
in webkit which is the underlying software behind safari and it says the impact or what
the problem was is processing maliciously crafted web content may lead to arbitrary code execution
apple is aware of a report that this issue may have been actively exploited and to fix
this an out of bounds right issue was addressed with improved bounds checking
this sounds very familiar as that's basically what we had with the previous version of ios
a little bit slow there with ios 15.6.1 we had a very similar impact and then description or fix
for the same thing on current devices so it looks like they may be patching the exact same thing
you can see the cve number here is three two eight nine three and if we go back we can double check
that again a little bit slow here if we go back we'll check and three two eight nine three so
it should be the same thing they're patching it for that same exploit on older devices as well
and so it's great to see them update that all the way back to the iphone 5s and this one's actually
not charged right now so wasn't able to turn it on but it is a functioning device as is the ipad air
and it's available now now whether or not this particular update or security fix is present
in ios 16 beta 8 is hard to say as apple hasn't confirmed that many of you have asked me about
that but so far we just don't know but you can expect it to be in the final release of ios 16.
and of course ios 15.6.1 was released ios 15.6 has been unsigned and many have been asking will we
have an update to ios 15.7 or ios 15.6.2 at this point since we're getting so close to the apple
event which is on september 7th we could have an ios 15.6.2 or ios 15.7 however it would have to
be very very soon so it's possible we could see that with some small updates however 15.6.1 could
be the last update for your iphone with ios 15. and so you can expect similar support on current
devices that are going to lose support for ios 16. so the iphone 6s 6s plus 7 and 7 plus along
with the ipads that will lose support will get future updates and security fixes from here on out
however we don't know if there's a set amount of time when they'll just stop supporting this this
could be the last update for this for those of you interested in ios 16 ios 16 release candidate
would be expected on september 7th typically after the apple event where they show the iphone 14 and
more and then usually the following monday is when they release it to the public so we can expect
september 12th through the 14th usually it's a monday but they could push it out a couple days
if they need to either way expect that very soon if you're on other devices however it's great to
see them updating older devices and keeping them compliant as far as security goes so that you
don't have to worry about those vulnerabilities so let me know if you have one of these devices if
you're using an older one and i thought we'd just do this video because we haven't covered ios 12 in
a long time setting this wallpaper took a little bit of learning since i hadn't done it in so long
so if we go over to the wallpapers here we'll go over go to set the wallpaper it was a little
bit of a throwback seeing what this was like as you have to slide over then use the wallpaper or
use his wallpaper and then set it so performance and everything else in this i wouldn't expect any
changes or anything like that and battery life really should be unaffected it's more of just a
bug fix or not even a bug fix a security update to make your phone more secure and this battery
actually needs to be replaced at this point so if we go into service you'll see i'm at 84 however
it's an old phone it needs to be updated with a battery but then that would bring it right back up
to performance that we expect from this device so it's great it still says peak performance
capability but does say to service the battery so it's a little bit mixed there as it says your
battery's health is significantly degraded so it's still performing like it should but either way if
i replace the battery it should be all new let me know if you've updated in the comments below and
of course if you'd like to get your hands on this wallpaper i'll link it in the description like i
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