Apple is delivering security updates faster to beat AI hackers

AI is now helping hackers find and exploit security issues faster than ever before. Apple says it will no longer wait to include updates in the next scheduled releases of to iOS, , Apple has announced that it now intends to cut the time between discovery of an exploit and the update to address it. Normally some more minor security updates would have been held until the next regular release, but now they should be issued as soon as possible.

According to Reuters, on Monday. Previously, the company would typically have included these security updates in iOS 26.6, which is expected in July 2026.