14.5.1 v. 16.2

[Naraxus]

I'm currently on an iPhone 12 Pro Max and my current version of iOS is, as the title suggests, 14.5.1

My questions are a few:

Do I upgrade or stay where I'm at?

What features am I missing out on (if any)?

What reasons are there to not upgrade?

I suppose I could just look on Apple's website but I want to get some irl feedback from everyone.

Thanks in advance

 

[Paddle1]

Is there a reason you're on 14.5.1? There are definitely notable new features like lock screen customization plus widgets and live activities. It would be hard to list all the differences since iOS 14 and whether you'd have interest in them is hard to know.

 

[bransoj]

Probably a fair few security updates if nothing else...

 

[FreakinEurekan]

I don’t want to say that it’s “Foolish” to not update… but I can’t think of an appropriate alternative term, so I’ll stick with foolish.

Yes, you’re missing out on features. Maybe they’d be useful to you, maybe they wouldn’t.

But you’re not even on the latest iOS 14, much less on the latest available. The version you’re running was updated in May of 2021. You don’t think there have been additional security improvements since then? 🧐

I get not wanting to dive straight into a dot-zero version of a product, and Apple does too. That’s why they continue updating the last version, and not force you to jump a full major version for the first several weeks/months it’s available. But not updating AT ALL - ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I truly don’t understand.

FWIW my iPhone 12 Pro is running fine with iOS 16.2.

 

[Naraxus]

Is there a reason you're on 14.5.1? There are definitely notable new features like lock screen customization plus widgets and live activities. It would be hard to list all the differences since iOS 14 and whether you'd have interest in them is hard to know.

It's mostly out of sheer laziness on my part

 

[DanRO]

If you are happy with battery life and performance overall, I wouldn’t update, unless you care about visual customization.

 

[Isamilis]

If you have to upgrade, I’d suggest to update via IPSW install (backup - update IPSW - restore). The process is longer but better bug free (especially 16.2 was known has lots of them).

 

[papbot]

(especially 16.2 was known has lots of them).

I've had almost none. However each of us has specific use cases so that will vary but I think he'll be just fine doing the OTA update. I’ve only done it that way since that became a thing and rarely have any of the things occur that I see posted here even by those who always do IPSW. Of course if I had some obscure problem that no one else had I would consider redoing an installation that way but I never have had that experience, even my obscure issues were resolved in a later update. And how many battery issues have been posted here regardless of ipsw or not, I’ve never had any, at least not since a rogue app I was using about 10 years ago.