iMessage Contact Key Verification could arrive with iOS 16.6

At the end of last year, Apple announced iMessage Contact Key Verification , a tool the company said would allow those who face "extraordinary digital threats" to safeguard their conversations from malicious actors. At the time, the company promised the safety feature would arrive sometime in 2023. Now, a little more than two weeks before the start of WWDC 2023 , it looks like iMessage Contact Key Verification could arrive with the release of iOS 16.6. As first reported by MacRumors , Apple bega...