Apple has officially declared that the iPhone and iPad have achieved a groundbreaking milestone by becoming the world’s inaugural—and currently sole—consumer devices to fulfill NATO’s stringent national information security assurance standards. This achievement enables these devices to directly manage NATO restricted-level classified information, eliminating the necessity for supplementary software or configuration adjustments. The security features are inherently embedded within the design architecture of Apple products, and their built-in protective mechanisms have now received formal acknowledgment.

Following a rigorous evaluation conducted by Germany’s Federal Office for Information Security, iPhones and iPads operating on iOS 26 and iPadOS 26 have successfully attained certification across all NATO member nations for the secure handling of classified data. This certification carries substantial significance for Apple’s mobile ecosystem, as the pertinent operating systems have now been officially incorporated into NATO’s Information Security Assurance Product Catalog.