Spotted a security flaw in Apple's software? The tech giant will now pay up to a record $200,000 as a thank you.
The bounty was announced at the Black Hall information security conference, and will come into force next month.
Bug bounties are nothing new, and Apple has been late to embrace the growing trend for tech firms to pay people to alert them to security issues.
Pressure has grown in recent months, after the FBI found a way to exploit iPhone's security systems to bypass the passcode lock.
Some in the security community pointed out that with a rewards system for reporting bugs in place, white hat hackers - who are well-meaning - would have spotted it and alerted Apple.
Ivan Krstic, Apple's head of security engineering and architecture, told the Las Vegas conference: "We've had great help from researchers like you in improving iOS security all along.
"Feedback that we've heard pretty consistently both from my team at Apple and also from researchers directly is that it's getting increasingly more difficult to find some of those most critical types of security vulnerabilities.
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