India, Sept. 12 -- Apple's latest iPhone 17 line up is here in its full glory, along with the brand new iPhone Air. Your new iPhone 17 will arrive with something new beneath the surface: a security feature called Memory Integrity Enforcement or MIE. Although this didn't make it into the keynote announcements, Apple quietly shared details in a research report.. The company claims MIE aims to strengthen the phone's privacy by making it much harder for spyware to take hold. This feature is built into every iPhone 17 and iPhone Air, impacting both the hardware and software.

MIE acts like a digital gatekeeper, controlling which code can run in the most sensitive parts of the device's memory. According to Apple, this will cut off the most comm...