Apple upgraded the security of older iPhone and Apple Watch processors in fall of 2020
April 13, 2021
An Apple Support document has revealed that Apple made a very rare change to the production of its A12 and S5 processors last fall. According to the company, Apple upgraded the Secure Enclave in those processors to a second-generation version of the Storage component during the fall of 2020.
For those unfamiliar, the Secure Enclave is a security coprocessor included with almost every Apple…