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The message from Apple is so vague that it's useless. It just says to be afraid. There's no advice on what action to take.

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That's not true, in the message they refer you to a web page with more details: About Apple threat notifications and protecting against mercenary spyware -https://support.apple.com/en-in/102174

The article omitted it, but the message says to update iOS to the latest software and enable its lockdown mode.

Right. That's a "turn it off and turn it on again" tech support answer.

Hardly. Keeping your apps and operating system updated is one of the more reliable prophylaxis against vulnerabilities.

Unless I'm misunderstanding "turn it off and on again" suggest a kind of pointless, "just start over and try again" kind of suggestion, no?

I disagree: I'd expect they would have discovered the exploit and delivered and update to patch it, and lock down mode is not standard usage by normal users.

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