Never miss another critical iOS security update again
Details
- External ID
- 45856931
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Never miss another critical iOS security update again
- Website domain
- earlynotify.com
- Launched
- Nov. 8, 2025
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 5
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.0982532751091703
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Description
Raising my hand as someone who's checked Settings > General > Software Update way too many times.I got tired of finding out about iOS updates from Twitter 6 hours after they dropped, so I built EarlyNotify.It's dead simple: the system watches Apple's firmware servers, and when a new iOS/iPadOS/macOS/watchOS/tvOS update hits, you get an email within 15 minutes. That's it.No app to install. No account dashboard. Just an email saying "hey, iOS 26.1 just dropped."It's free, open-source, no upsells, just notifications.Would love any feedback! Happy to answer questions about how it works under the hood!P.S. iOS 26.1 dropped on the 3rd November ;)
Enrichment
- Theme
- iOS and iPhone utility apps
- Vertical
- Security
- Function
- Vertical SaaS
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- ios security update notifications
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes A simple polling service that monitors Apple firmware update RSS feeds or APIs and dispatches emails via an SMTP service like Resend or SendGrid.
Discussion
5 comments analyzed.
Concerns raised: Missing older Apple device models (Apple Watch SE1, Series 6+, 2017 MacBook), Apple may have stopped hosting updates for EOL devices on separate infrastructure, Limited Apple Watch coverage (only up to Series 5, currently at Series 11)
Feature requests: Webhook notifications for firmware updates, Notifications for older/legacy Apple devices, Expand Apple Watch model support beyond Series 5
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Launched 10 days after the earliest competitor.
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