Release appearance
visionOS 26.3 Public
Recorded context
About this appearance
visionOS 26.3 reached the public channel on 2026-02-11. visionOS 26.3 was a maintenance release for Apple Vision Pro that Apple described as providing important bug fixes and security updates, without a named consumer feature list.
- Date
- Feb 11, 2026
- Availability
- available
- Revision
- No
Release notes
What changed
Original editorial synthesis. Linked references appear with the claims they support and in the source ledger.
Public release
Apple's dated security record places the public visionOS 26.3 appearance on 2026-02-11. This page covers that public release and does not project cumulative notes onto an earlier beta.[1][2]
What changed
visionOS 26.3 was a maintenance release for Apple Vision Pro that Apple described as providing important bug fixes and security updates, without a named consumer feature list.[2]
Security and evidence boundary
The version-specific advisory covers privilege boundaries, media processing, networking, privacy, sandboxing, and dynamic-loader security. Its exploitation statement is expressly about versions of iOS before iOS 26.[3]
Source ledger
References
Sources are linked to the claims they support. Publication and access dates are shown when available.
- About the security content of visionOS 26.3
Apple Support · Apple · 2026-07-30 · visionOS 26.3 — Released 2026-02-11
- About the security content of visionOS 26.3
Apple Support · Apple · 2026-07-30 · visionOS 26.3 — security content
- About the security content of visionOS 26.3
Apple Support · Apple · 2026-07-30 · Bluetooth, CFNetwork, and Kernel entries
- About the security content of visionOS 26.3
Apple Support · Apple · 2026-07-30 · CoreAudio, CoreMedia, ImageIO, and Model I/O entries
- About the security content of visionOS 26.3
Apple Support · Apple · 2026-07-30 · CoreServices entries
- About the security content of visionOS 26.3
Apple Support · Apple · 2026-07-30 · dyld — CVE-2026-20700
- About the security content of visionOS 26.3
Apple Support · Apple · 2026-07-30 · Messages, Sandbox, and Shortcuts entries
Release changes
Changed in this release
Features, fixes, removals, and regressions first observed in this release record.
security · fixed
Image and media-processing safety
The update corrected ImageIO information-disclosure paths, CoreAudio and CoreMedia memory issues, and Model I/O bounds handling.
- [1] About the security content of visionOS 26.3 · CoreAudio, CoreMedia, ImageIO, and Model I/O entries
security · fixed
Sandbox, Messages, and Shortcuts protections
The release tightened sandbox permissions, symbolic-link handling in Messages, directory-path validation in Shortcuts, and related sensitive-data boundaries.
- [1] About the security content of visionOS 26.3 · Messages, Sandbox, and Shortcuts entries
security · fixed
Kernel and network hardening
Apple fixed kernel privilege, stability, and traffic-interception issues together with Bluetooth denial of service and CFNetwork arbitrary-file writing.
- [1] About the security content of visionOS 26.3 · Bluetooth, CFNetwork, and Kernel entries
bugFix · fixed
Important maintenance fixes
Apple classified the release as an important bug-fix update but did not enumerate individual consumer defects.
- [1] About visionOS 26 Updates · visionOS 26.3
security · fixed
dyld memory-corruption repair
A dynamic-loader memory-corruption issue was fixed; Apple's observed-attack note is limited to highly targeted use against versions of iOS before iOS 26 and does not say visionOS 26.3 was exploited.
- [1] About the security content of visionOS 26.3 · dyld — CVE-2026-20700
security · fixed
CoreServices privilege and data protections
CoreServices repairs addressed root-privilege paths, directory handling, environment-variable validation, and sensitive-data access.
- [1] About the security content of visionOS 26.3 · CoreServices entries