Apple has released new iPhone and iPad security updates to patch a vulnerability allowing the recovery of deleted chats.

Apple fixes CVE-2026-28950 in iOS 26.4.2 after deleted notifications were retained, mitigating forensic data exposure.

Apple's latest iPhone update patches a bug that would let previously-deleted notifications remain on-device—possibly the same ...

Apple has released a software update to fix a bug that enabled law enforcement to retrieve deleted or auto-disappeared ...

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Apple fixed an iPhone bug that let police recover deleted chats, showing how notifications can create hidden privacy risks.

Update, April 22: Apple has released iOS 26.4.2 with a bug fix that addresses an issue where “notifications marked for deletion could be unexpectedly retained on the device.” Apple did not directly ...

Apple has released an urgent iOS update fixing a flaw that let deleted message previews remain on devices, enabling law ...

Apple has released iOS 26.4.2 and related updates to fix a vulnerability that allowed deleted message previews from apps like Signal to remain in iPhone notification storage. The flaw, CVE-2026-28950, ...

Learn how the FBI uses forensic tools to extract "deleted" Signal messages from the hidden iPhone notification database, even after the app is uninstalled ...

A new report has revealed that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) was able to recover deleted messages from an iPhone even after the Signal app had been removed. Whenever a situation like this ...