According to TechCrunch, the iOS 14 feature blocks nearby wireless routers and access points from collecting the unique MAC address of an Apple device, which can be used for tracking.
The update addresses a number of vulnerabilities related to the audio, ColorSync, Continuity Camera, CoreGraphics, GPU Drivers, IOMobileFrameBuffer and more.
Published on Apple's Developer webpage, the data shows that in total, 80 per cent of all devices use iOS 14, with 12 per cent still using iOS 13 and the remaining 8 per cent still running iOS 12 or earlier. For the iPad, 70 per cent of all devices use iPadOS 14.
"One of the major changes in iOS 14 is the introduction of a new, tightly sandboxed ‘BlastDoor' service which is now responsible for almost all parsing of untrusted data in iMessages," Samuel Groß, Project Zero, wrote in a blog post
