Maya: Good morning, and welcome to the Apple Morning Briefing. It is Tuesday, October sixth, twenty twenty-six. I'm Maya.
Devon: And I'm Devon. A hardware warning for iPhone owners, a courtroom showdown with Open A I, and your security check. Let's get into it.
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Maya: First up, an important heads-up if you carry Apple's latest phone on A T and T. Apple has confirmed that a small number of iPhone eighteen Pro Max users on the A T and T network have lost cellular service entirely. No calls, no texts, no data.
Devon: Thousands of complaints piled up on Apple's support forums before the company spoke. Apple says it released i O S twenty-seven point oh point one earlier this week, plus an A T and T carrier settings update, to stop more phones from being hit. But here is the sting. If your phone is already affected, no software update can bring it back. The device has to be replaced entirely.
Maya: Apple strongly encourages every iPhone eighteen Pro Max owner to update to i O S twenty-seven point oh point one right now, through Settings, then General, then Software Update. A T and T users can pull the carrier update through Settings, General, About. Apple says no other iPhone model and no other carrier are known to be affected.
Devon: To the courtroom, where the Apple versus Open A I trade secrets case took another sharp turn. Apple fired back, accusing Open A I and the other defendants of going well beyond what court rules allow.
Maya: The background. Apple is suing two former employees, Chang Liu and Tang Tan, along with Open A I and i o Products, claiming trade secrets were taken to Open A I's hardware project, and Apple wants a preliminary injunction while the case plays out.
Devon: Apple says the defendants were only allowed to object to new evidence, but instead filed nine pages of new arguments and testimony, including an eight-paragraph declaration from Mister Liu trying to explain away why he wiped his company iMac before returning it. Apple's ask is for the court to decide on the full record. Arguments are set for October fourteenth.
Maya: And in software news, Apple seeded the third developer betas across the board, i O S, iPad O S, mac O S Golden Gate, watch O S, t v O S, and vision O S twenty-seven point two. The headline feature so far is a redesigned Health app. We will dig in when the public betas land.
Devon: Now your security check. If you are still on i O S twenty-six, this one is for you. The CoreGraphics zero-day Apple patched on September twenty-eighth, tracked as C V E twenty twenty-six dash eighty-six thousand nine hundred fifty, has taken an ominous turn. Security researchers have now published a detailed technical write-up and a working proof of concept.
Maya: Until now this was an extremely sophisticated, targeted attack, reported by Meta's product security team, against specific individuals. With the proof of concept public, less sophisticated attackers can study it and build on it. And timing matters. Almost four in five iPhone owners are still running i O S twenty-six, according to Apple's own numbers. The fix is i O S twenty-six point seven point one, iPad O S twenty-six point seven point one, mac O S Tahoe twenty-six point seven point one, and mac O S Sequoia fifteen point eight point one. Devices on version twenty-seven are not affected.
Devon: The United States cyber agency added the flaw to its known exploited vulnerabilities catalog on September twenty-ninth, with a severity score of eight point eight out of ten. Bottom line. Update today, and turn on automatic updates while you are at it.
Maya: That is your Apple morning. We will be back tomorrow at five A M. I'm Maya.
Devon: And I'm Devon. Have a great Tuesday.