@FeliApple, @Alpha CentauriAs someone who hasn’t willingly updated an iOS device for about 12 years, I’m intricately familiar with incompatibility. I’ve instructed my family never to update. They’ve listened. But now, an iPhone 11 that remains in use is running iOS 14. iOS 14 will lose compatibility with a key, impossible-to-replace app so we have to update that one. It’s the first iOS device I’ve had to update for compatibility since 2013.
And it’s the perfect introduction to my question: iOS 18 still has a few months left. Do you need iOS 18 now? Is there an app you absolutely need that doesn’t work? If there is, do you have other devices you can run it on without that being inconvenient? (i.e., do you need constant, unfettered access?) If you do, I’d update. If you can circumvent this either with another iOS device, with a computer, or the app isn’t so important, I wouldn’t.
Thank you very much. Now I got it clear that I'd rather stay with 15.5. There's nothing wrong with the apps for right now so I guess if it ain't broke don't fix it.
Oh well, will be saving up for 16e to get it before iOS 19 strikes.
Thanks again for your comprehended response that omitted all that "security-fixes-vulnerabilities" BS.
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