Devices affected by this vulnerability include iPhone 8 and newer, iPad Pro (all models), iPad Air 3rd generation and newer, iPad 5th generation and newer, and iPad mini 5th generation and newer.

Impact: Applications may be able to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges, and Apple is aware of reports that this issue may have been actively exploited.

DESCRIPTION: The out-of-bounds write issue has been resolved with improved boundary checking.

CVE-2022-42827: Anonymous Researcher

Arstechnica says that the number of known 0-day vulnerabilities in Apple this year has reached 8-9.

In addition to CVE-2022-42827, the Apple iOS / iPadOS 16.1 update also fixes 19 other security vulnerabilities, including two in the kernel, three in the peer-to-peer protocol, two in WebKit, and two in AppleMobileFileIntegrity, Core Bluetooth, IOKit, and one of the iOS sandboxes.

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iOS 16.1 Official Release

• According to the official changelog, iOS 16.1 officially introduces iCloud Shared Photo Gallery, making it easy to keep family photos up to date. This update also adds support for third-party apps in Live Events and includes additional features and bug fixes for iPhone.

iCloud Shared Photo Gallery

• A separate gallery lets you seamlessly share photos and videos with up to five other users
• Set rules to make it easy to provide past photos based on the start date or people in the photo when setting up or adding to a gallery
• Quickly switch between shared galleries, personal galleries, or both, using gallery filters
• Shared editing and permissions allow everyone to add, edit, favorite, delete photos and add captions
• “The “Share” switch in Camera allows you to send photos taken directly to the shared gallery or enable automatic photo sharing settings when other participants are detected nearby via Bluetooth

Live Events

• Live activity from third-party apps is now available on the iPhone 14 Pro model’s Smart Island and Lock screens

Wallets

• Key sharing allows you to securely share car keys, hotel room keys and other keys in your Wallet using messaging apps such as Messages and WhatsApp

Home

• Supports the new smart home connectivity standard Matter, with a wide range of smart home accessories that work together across the ecosystem

Books

• Reader controls automatically hide when you start reading

Bug fixes

• Deleted conversations may appear in the “Messages” conversation list
• Lingering Island content is not available when using Easy Access

iPadOS 16.1 official release
Apple’s iPadOS 16.1 release further enhances the versatility of the iPad with powerful new features for efficiency and collaboration. iCloud Shared Photo Gallery makes it easy to keep your family’s photos up to date. “Messages adds the ability to edit or retract sent messages and offers new ways to start and manage collaborations. “Mail introduces a new inbox and authoring tools, and the Safari browser adds shared tab groups and a new generation of security with passkeys. “Front Desk Scheduler brings a new way to multitask on iPad by allowing you to use multiple stacked windows and easily switch between them.

iCloud Shared Photo Gallery

• iCloud Shared Photos Gallery makes sharing photos and videos a breeze, with the ability to share with up to five other users in a separate gallery and seamless integration with the Photos App.
• Smart setting rules allow you to easily provide past photos based on the start date or people in the photo when setting up or adding to a gallery
• Quickly switch between shared galleries, personal galleries, or both, using the gallery filter criteria
• Shared editing and permissions allow everyone to add, edit, favorite, delete photos and add captions
• “The “Share” switch in Camera allows you to send photos taken directly to the shared gallery or enable automatic photo sharing settings when other participants are detected nearby via Bluetooth

Messages

• Messages can be edited up to 15 minutes after being sent and the recipient can see the edit history
• Undo send allows you to withdraw a message up to 2 minutes after it has been sent
• Mark as unread allows you to easily return to the conversation later
• Share in Messages allows you and your friends to watch movies, listen to music, play games and enjoy great activities while you’re messaging
• Collaboration makes it easy to invite others to collaborate on files through Messages and get activity updates in the conversation when someone edits a shared item

Mail

• Improved search function gives more accurate and complete results and provides suggestions as soon as you start typing
• Undo Send allows you to unsend an email within 10 seconds of hitting send
• Timed sending allows you to send emails on a specific date and time
• “Remind Me allows you to set a date and time to get reminders for specific emails

Safari browser and passkeys

• Shared tab groups allow you to share a set of tabs with others and instantly see tab group updates during collaboration
• Tab group starters allow you to add different background images and personal favorites to each tab group
• Fixed tabs in tab groups allow you to fix frequently visited websites for each tab group
• Safari browser web translation adds Turkish, Thai, Vietnamese, Polish, Indonesian and Dutch web page translations
• Passkeys support a simpler, more secure way to sign in, and can be used in place of a password
• Sync passkeys with an iCloud keychain so they can be used on all Apple devices while maintaining end-to-end encryption

Front Desk Scheduling

• “Scheduler in Front is a new way of multitasking that automatically organizes apps and windows into one view
• Stacked windows allow you to stack and resize apps to create the ideal workspace
• App grouping allows you to create App sets for a quick return
• Recently used apps are arranged on the left-hand side of the screen, allowing you to quickly switch between apps and windows

New display modes

• “Reference Mode provides reference colors for popular color standards and video formats on the 12.9-inch iPad Pro with Liquid Retina XDR display while using it as a reference display for Macs with Apple chips thanks to the Onboard feature
• Display scaling setting adjusts the display pixel density upwards so you can see more within the App, available on 12.9-inch iPad Pro (5th generation and later), 11-inch iPad Pro (1st generation and later) and iPad Air (5th generation)

Weather

• The Weather app on iPad is optimized for the larger display and includes immersive animations, detailed maps, and a weather forecast module with tap-and-touch operation
• Weather map showing precipitation, air quality and temperature, either as a region-wide map or full-screen view
• Tappable module for more detailed information such as hourly temperature or precipitation forecasts for the next 10 days
• Air quality is shown by color coding, rating and category, and can be viewed on a map with information on air quality and related health advice, pollutant classification and more
• Enjoy thousands of animated backgrounds that change according to sun position, cloud cover and precipitation intensity
• Extreme weather notifications to notify you when extreme weather warnings are issued in your neighborhood

Games

• In-game panel activity provides a central overview of what your friends have achieved in this game, the games they are playing and all their game achievements
• Game Center profile highlights your achievements and leaderboard activity across all games
• “Address Book” integrates your friends’ Game Center profiles to show you what games they’re playing and what achievements they’ve earned at a glance

Live Text

• Live text video support allows you to interact with text in the video pause screen to copy, translate, query, share and more
• Quick actions let you tap to perform actions on data detected in photos and videos to track flights or logistics, translate foreign languages, convert currency and more

View image search

• Extracting the subject from the background separates it from the image for copying and pasting into apps such as Mail and Messages

Siri

• Easy shortcut settings allow you to run shortcut commands directly from Siri after downloading the app without having to set it up in advance
• New settings allow you to send messages directly without Siri asking you to confirm before sending
• “Hey Siri, what can I do?” Discover what Siri can do on iPadOS and in the App with one easy question
• Hang up calls and FaceTime calls with Siri by simply saying “Hey Siri, hang up”
• Emoji support – use your voice to insert emojis when sending messages

Dictation

• New dictation experience with voice and keyboard or Apple Pencil to enter and edit text
• “Automatic punctuation” to insert commas, periods and question marks with dictation
• Emoji support, inserting emojis using your voice

Maps

• Multi-destination routes support adding up to fifteen stops along the driving route in Maps
• In places such as the San Francisco Bay Area, London and New York, transport costs are shown for the trip

Family

• “The Home App has been redesigned to make it easier to browse, organize, view, and control smart home accessories
• “The Home tab now integrates all accessories, rooms and scenes in one place, so you can see what’s going on in your home at a glance
• Accessories are organized by light, environment, security, speakers, TV and water, and by room for quick access and more detailed status information
• The new camera view shows up to four cameras front and center on the Home tab, and scroll to see more camera views of your home
• The accessories section has been redesigned with more recognizable icons and color matching categories, and new controls for more precise accessory control
• Support for the new smart home connectivity standard Matter, which enables a wide range of accessories to work together across the ecosystem, providing users with more choices and greater interoperability

Family Sharing

• Improved child account settings for easier account creation, better parental control and inclusion of age-appropriate media restrictions
• Quick Start makes it easy to set up a new iOS or iPadOS device for your child and select the parental controls you need
• Screen time requests can be sent using ‘Messages’, making it easier to approve or deny your child’s request
• “Family Sharing Checklist gives you tips and advice on updating your child’s parental control settings, turning on location sharing, or reminding you to share your iCloud+ subscription with everyone

Desktop-grade App

• A customizable toolbar allows you to add the features you use most in the app
• Menus provide more context for actions such as Close, Save, and Copy, making it easier to edit text and files in apps such as Pages and Numbers tables
• Find and Replace works across the entire system of apps, including Mail, Messages, Reminders and Swift Playgrounds
• “The Availability view in Calendar shows you the availability of each invitee when you create a Calendar meeting

Security Check

• “Safety Check is a new section in Settings that helps victims of domestic or intimate partner violence to quickly reset the access rights granted to others
• “Emergency Reset allows you to take quick action to reset access for all people and apps, including deactivating Find location sharing, resetting privacy permissions for apps and more
• Manage shares and access rights helps you check and customize which apps and contacts have access to your information

Accessibility

• “Amplifier’s Door Detection feature identifies the location of doors, reads aloud surrounding signs and symbols and tells you how to open them
• Co-Control helps users with cognitive impairments to get support from their carers or friends when playing games by integrating multiple game controller inputs into one
• More than 20 new languages and regions have been added to the narration, including Bengali (India), Bulgarian, Catalan, Ukrainian and Vietnamese

Other features and improvements

• “New tools in Memo and Marker allow you to draw and write with watercolors, single-line brushes and pens
• AirPods Pro (2nd generation) supports “Find” and “Pinpoint” for MagSafe charging cases and a more precise and immersive listening experience with personalized spatial audio; these features also apply to AirPods (3rd generation), AirPods Pro (1st generation) and AirPods Max
• The relay feature for FaceTime calls allows you to seamlessly transfer FaceTime calls from iPad to iPhone or Mac and vice versa
• Mimic Emoji update includes more sticker poses, hairstyles, headgear, nose shapes and lip colors
• Translate text around you with the camera in the Translate App
• “Duplicate content detection in Photos identifies duplicate photos so you can quickly clean up your library
• “Reminders can be top-listed to help you quickly navigate through your frequently used lists
• Focused search is directly accessible via ‘Search’ at the bottom of the home screen, making it easier to open apps, find contacts or get information from the web
• Quick Security Response can be applied automatically during two standard software updates to provide important security improvements to your device more quickly

Note that due to server configuration caching issues across Apple’s regional nodes, there may be a slight delay in detecting the update in some locations, usually within half an hour, but not for long.

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Apple had previously said that iPadOS 16 would be released in October, but did not provide a specific release date. iPadOS 16 was initially expected to be released with iOS 16 in September, but Apple delayed the software update after some users criticized the new Stage Manager feature that allows multiple apps in overlapping windows.

Apple recently extended Stage Manager to older iPad Pro models with the A12X and A12Z chips released in 2018 and 2020, albeit without external display support, which limits functionality to four apps on the built-in displays of those models. Apple is also delaying external display support for iPad models with the M1 chip until later this year.

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In the recent release of Apple’s iPadOS 16.1 Developer Preview / Public Beta 5, developer Steve Troughton-Smith and MacStories editor-in-chief Federico Viticci highlighted various UI issues they still face from time to time when using the front scheduler, including the Dock bar disappearing when the iPad is rotated, and the content not scaling properly when the window is resized. The content does not scale properly when resizing the window, keyboard input is not enabled in some apps, black borders appear around windows, and more. In addition, dragging the title bar to move the window still sends the drag event to the app itself. This also conflicts with a swipe to return. Desktop use is still problematic.

In August this year, Viticci criticized Apple for being “fundamentally misleading” about desktop scheduling. The feature has improved in the weeks since, but as seen in the latest Beta 5, there are still multiple issues with iPadOS 16 even as it approaches its release to the general public.

Apple recently extended front-of-house scheduling to older iPad Pro models 2018 (A12X) and 2020 (A12Z), despite the lack of external display support, which will limit the use of the built-in display to four apps. Apple has also delayed external display support for the M1 iPad models, which is not expected to arrive until later this year.

Front of Desk Scheduling allows users to open up to four apps in overlapping windows on the iPad display to improve the multitasking experience. Modified front-of-the-desk scheduling is also available on macOS 13 Ventura for keeping windows front and center.

Apple has said that iPadOS 16 will be released in October but has not confirmed a specific date. The software update will be marked as iPadOS 16.1 and it will likely be released alongside the official iOS 16.1 release for iPhone, as these updates share the same Build version number.

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Earlier last month, a Bloomberg report revealed that Apple was considering delaying the release of iPadOS 16 until October because the company was unhappy with the experience of the front-of-the-stage scheduling feature. Now that Apple has confirmed that the release of iPadOS 16 has been delayed, developers can install the iPadOS 16.1 beta.

Of course, Apple isn’t directly saying that the release of iPadOS 16 has been delayed due to bugs or other quality issues. Instead, the company claims that this is “a big year for iPadOS” and that it will now have “its own timeline”.

Here is a statement sent by Apple to TechCrunch.

"This year is a particularly important one for iPadOS. As our own platform designed specifically for the iPad, we have the flexibility to deliver iPadOS on our own schedule. iPadOS will be available after iOS this autumn, in version 16.1."

The iPad iOS 16.1 beta has many of the features of iOS 16, but the most important feature is the M1 iPad Air and M1 iPad Pro exclusive front-of-stage scheduling feature, and another important feature is the ability to get external display support. There’s also the iCloud Shared Photo Library feature, which allows users to share a separate iCloud photo library with up to five people who can add, edit, favorite, caption and delete photos. In addition, users can edit, unsend and mark messages as unread. iPadOS 16.1 will also bring a new weather app, similar to the experience on macOS Ventura, with animated backgrounds, more weather details, forecasts, air quality and more.

How to upgrade iOS / iPadOS / watchOS / macOS Dev / Public Beta?

Simply download and install the [description file] to detect the development / public beta update in System Update.

Note: that there may be a slight delay in detecting the update in some locations due to server configuration caching issues on Apple’s regional nodes, usually within half an hour.

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On the occasion of the iOS/iPadOS 16 Beta 7 release, foreign tech media TechCrunch mentioned that “Apple is pushing iPadOS 16.1 Beta to registered developer devices”. This report seemed pre-written at the time, as Apple’s beta documentation referred to iPadOS 16.0 beta 7 instead of 16.1.

However, AppleInsider, a foreign technology media outlet, showed on an iPad device running the developer beta: “Your iPad has been upgraded to 16.1. In a statement, Apple said, “There have been a lot of changes to iPadOS this year. Not only do we have a number of features designed exclusively for iPad, but we have the flexibility to deliver iPadOS on our own schedule. iPadOS will be released after iOS this fall with a free upgrade directly to 16.1.”

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Apple has introduced a new lock screen design for iOS 16. Whether it’s widgets, notification designs or fonts and colors, you can personalize it with a high degree of freedom, and it will also support multiple lock screens.

The Focus mode is easier to adjust than before and you can weed out content you don’t like directly in the app. With the Messages app, you can now edit or withdraw sent content or mark messages as unread, and it also supports SharePlay, very similar to FaceTime.

The Mail app has improved search tools and also supports actions such as retractions. You can even set a reminder to check your email if you don’t receive a reply.

Apple is also working on replacing passwords with Passkeys to sign in to accounts, a more secure form of biometrics.

The iCloud Photo Library helps users easily share photos with other family members, and there’s support for real-time text/subtitle display in videos. Also, it has an interesting new feature where you can extract the subject from the background (with the help of Visual Lookup).

Elsewhere, dictation has also been improved, Maps now supports multi-stop directions, Apple offers Apple Pay Later for layaway payments, and the Family App gets a new look.

For iPadOS, Apple also added Stage Manager to bring Mac-like multitasking, though it’s limited to the M1 iPad. iPadOS version 16.1 will be released directly, Apple confirmed. iPadOS 16.1 Developer Preview Beta Released, iPadOS 16 Officially Cancelled” Apple iOS Overhaul!

The beta version of iOS 16 has added a battery percentage display to the iPhone status bar, including a new option to turn off the battery percentage in the iPhone status bar with the bangs screen in low battery mode. New sound settings have also been introduced so you can better find your Apple Watch or locate your iPhone by sound.

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