Apple launches Security Answers with iOS 16.2

Announced at the last WWDC 2022, Secur ity answers had not yet appeared on our devices, until today

. What are they and how are they installed?

An update called “iOS Security Response 16.2 (a)” appeared on my iPhone tonight, something totally unexpected after installing the third beta version of iOS 16.2 yesterday. Under the name appeared a text indicating that it was to fix major security vulnerabilities, so I proceeded with the update without hesitation. However, at this point, it seems clear that this update was nothing more than a test of so-called “security responses”. What are these mini updates?

Security Rapid Response lets you automatically download important security updates to your devices without having to wait for operating system updates.

When Apple wants to release updates to fix security bugs that require quick fixes, it won’t have to wait to release a full update for the device, but may instead release these “security responses” . As you can see in the header image, today’s answer barely occupies 96MB

specify that it contains only what is strictly necessary to correct the error in question and nothing else.

Security Answers are set to install automatically by default, although we can change this behavior from Settings > General > Software Updates > Automatic Updates. And also they can be uninstalled once installed if desired

, for which you will have to enter Settings> General> Information> iOS version. These quick replies do not include a version change and will be updates that will be included in the next official update released by Apple, so if you don’t want to install it as a quick reply, when you update normally updated to the next version, it will be included.