San Francisco: Tech giant Apple has dismissed allegations of bypassing users’ privacy controls and said it has fixed a potential privacy vulnerability with iOS 16.3 and other updates.
Earlier this month, a report noted that Apple Maps had a security flaw that may have enabled an app to bypass a user’s privacy settings, reports AppleInsider.
However, now, the iPhone maker has claimed that no app took advantage of the flaw.
“Last week, we issued an advisory for a privacy vulnerability that could only be exploited by unsandboxed apps on macOS. The codebase we determined is shared by iOS and iPadOS, tvOS and watchOS, So the fixes and advisories were publicized to those operating the systems as well, despite the fact that they were never at risk,” Apple was quoted as saying.
It added, “A report also falsely suggested that iOS apps were exploiting this or another vulnerability to bypass user controls over location data.”
The company further noted that it investigated the allegations and concluded that “the app was not inhibiting user controls through any mechanism.”