
Millions of Apple Airplay-Enabled Devices Can Be Hacked via Wi-Fi
Lily Hay Newman, Andy Greenberg
created: April 29, 2025, 12:30 p.m. | updated: May 2, 2025, 11:02 a.m.
Apple’s AirPlay feature enables iPhones and Macbooks to seamlessly play music or show photos and videos on other Apple devices or third-party speakers and TVs that integrate the protocol.
Apple products are known for regularly receiving fixes, but given how rarely some smart-home devices are patched, it’s likely that these wirelessly enabled footholds for malware, across many of the hundreds of models of AirPlay-enabled devices, will persist for years to come.
Those Apple devices aside, Oligo’s chief technology officer and cofounder, Gal Elbaz, estimates that potentially vulnerable third-party AirPlay-enabled devices number in the tens of millions.
Apple tells WIRED that it has also created patches that are available for impacted third-party devices.
Apple adds that while there is potentially some user data on devices like TVs and speakers, it is typically very limited.
1 month, 1 week ago: WIRED