The latest iPhone operating system update, iOS 16.3, could be considered a minor operating system update as it has not been talked about and if we read its news quickly, it may seem that there are not many. However, two important innovations come from his hand, one for the whole world and the other for the whole world except for the United States, where it has been available for some time, and both can make the use of the apple smartphone much more secure.

First, and announced for some time, support for “hardware keys” has finally arrived as part of secure user identification. With iOS 16.3, it’s now possible to use a device like the Yubikey we talked about here a few months ago. As we told you in the same article, biometric identification is safe… up to a certain limit, and if we need a high level of security, resort to elements such as security keys that connect to the iPhone through its Lightning port, prevention You can go to sign up for it if you don’t have it.

Being a fairly common phone among celebrities, executives and public officials, the iPhone is exposed to endless threats and Apple is well aware of this. scandal Pegasus in this sense marked and before and afterto which Apple responded by condemning the NSO Group and recently creating an isolation mode that removes much of the phone’s functionality, but at the same time offers more than a high level of security.

Another important new feature that is already present in the United States but will jump to the rest of the world with iOS 16.3 is that We can now configure iCloud to use end-to-end encryption. However, it is important to note that this new and expected feature does not include Mail, Contacts and Calendar, as these applications communicate with a large number of third-party servers and services, which the company says make things complicated. allow. Yes, it will be available with the rest of Apple’s cloud platform services.

This is especially important when we consider that, for example, Search can constantly report our location and the location of family group members. In other words, if we connect to the Internet through an unsecured network (or a supposedly secure network but with an infiltrator) and use the service, network traffic analysis could reveal this information. However, with the arrival of iOS 16.3, such information would not be compromised even by using an unsecured network. Although you know anyway that if you are using an unsecured network (such as a public network) always use a VPN.