No. Apple already released the patch in February, and Apple chose not not patch older releases.

Apple of 2026 is not the same Apple of 2025. The people at Apple have held back iOS 18.7.3, iOS 18.7.4, iOS 18.7.5, or iOS 18.7.6 for most iPhones that support iOS 18.

These are dozens of CVEs patched in these updates, including numerous exploits as bad or worse than the one described in this one. (Article is paywalled so I couldn't read it, so I am getting the details from Google's post https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/dar...

- CVE-2025-43541, CVE-2025-43501 WebKit zero day https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/15/apple_follows_google_... (iOS 18.7.3)

- CVE-2025-43529 and CVE-2025-14174, mentioned in the article (iOS 18.7.3)

- The dyld exploit fixed in iOS 18.7.5, and the exploit in this article https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/12/apple_ios_263/ (iOS 18.7.5)

Unfortunately, in iOS 26, there is a new bug where Lockdown Mode breaks call recording, which is something I rely on. Something to weigh for anyone on iOS 18 who is considering installing iOS 26.

> Lockdown Mode breaks call recording

Do you mean screen recording? What are the symptoms of the bug?