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Always promptly install security updates. Other than that, there is no protection from this specific class of vulnerabilities.

There are other good security practices a slightly savvier user can follow, like running a soft firewall and installing fewer apps, but they wouldn't mitigate this vulnerability.

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This sounds nice in practice, but real world says that there is a greater than zero chance that the quickly released patch can have a negative affect on your device up to bricking the device. As a long time Apple user, I never install version X.0. I wait until at least X.0.1.

I think you’re mistaking the stability of Apple’s x.0 releases as “negative effects” of security patches.

x.0 releases do a lot more than patching. Security updates are much smaller and more frequent than even x.x.1 updates

There are is such thing as a "security patch" for iOS. If they release an update, they are releasing features as well. How quickly we forget the debacle that is iOS13. This was not a smooth deployment[0]: 13.0.0 9/19/19 13.1 9/24/19 13.1.1 9/27/19 13.1.2 9/30/19 13.1.3 10/15/19

I wait a couple of days to make sure updates are not bricking devices. Waiting just a week saw 3 updates and a 4th within 10 days. Some of those updates saw serious crippling of capabilities of the device after the update.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOS_version_history#iOS_13

Oops, I was talking about macOS releases, not iOS. The numbers don’t match between the two

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