Security Bite: This iOS 27.2 camera bug still isn’t enough to make me buy a camera cover

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On Security Bite, it’s one of my favorite pastimes to explain why camera covers are virtually useless today. I’ve been called out in the comments plenty for it. So when Apple patches a bug that lets a malicious app get to the camera without permission, I find myself in a rather precarious situation.

This week, Apple released iOS 27.2 to the public, and with it, over 160 different vulnerability patches. One of them fixes a bug that could let a malicious app access an iPhone’s or Mac’s camera without the user’s permission. Rest assured, this is not a hardware issue. Apple’s post-2008 change that put the camera module and the green LED indicator on the same circuit is not at fault here.