Anyone else have any thoughts on this? I'm quite content with iOS 18 https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdof...billion-iphone-users-must-install-new-update/
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Forbes reporting Apple potentially forcing people to upgrade to iOS 26.2
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UliBaer
macrumors 6502a
The usual fearmongering to push-up the install numbers of the new iOS and to proudly proclaim widespread "love" and adoption for the "best iOS ever"... 🤮
iOS 26 delivers anti-scam and anti-fraud features that have been missing on iPhone until now.
such as?
My iPhone 16 on 18.7.2 turned on the update available badge tonight only offering 26.1.
Strange to start luring people in for 26.1 so close to 26.2.
Strange to start luring people in for 26.1 so close to 26.2.
HouseLannister
macrumors 68040
Ah, Forbes, the organization that tells me to change my Gmail password every week and says the FBI has access to everything I own. Some of the worst tech reporting out there.
Not really familiar with Forbes - recognise the name but not much more. Didn't realise it had a "reputation"!
HouseLannister
macrumors 68040
Doesn't mean it's not factual reporting, but they do resort to a lot of scare tactics and superlatives. Hard to take them seriously when they say the sky is falling every week just to float to the top of my Google News feed.
Apple_Robert
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It doesn't look like you read the article. Apple isn't forcing anyone to upgrade.
WarmWinterHat
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Indeed. The actual title is "Apple iOS 26.2—1 Billion iPhone Users Must Install New Update", and it's saying you Must, in their opinion, for security reasons.
I'm not updating either. My work phone, where IT decides the update schedule, is on 26.
I7guy
macrumors Westmere
More stuff by Forbes to either curry favor from Apple or clickbait subscriber clicks. Forbes should stay in its own lane.
turbineseaplane
macrumors Penryn
This bothers me so much ...
If you're going to force it down everyone's throat, don't have the audacity to also talk about "how popular the new OS is!".
It's just incredible gall.
I7guy
macrumors Westmere
I like a company with verve and gall. Go Apple.
macfacts
macrumors 603
air drop security bugs like compatibility with Google pixel phones 😁
WarmWinterHat
Suspended
..which Apple hasn't responded to, or "fixed" in any of the 26.2 updates released since then. It still works fine.
turbineseaplane
macrumors Penryn
They are probably busy working on some new themes for the Invites App or some other total waste of time.
macfacts
macrumors 603
Besides shareholders, apple has to think of its other customers(developers)
Yes, the update was problematic at first, but it doesn't cause any issues now.
Complete in total nonsense.
18.7.3 RC is currently available through the beta channels, for *all* iOS 18 devices, including all of those that can update to 26.
18.7.3 RC is currently available through the beta channels, for *all* iOS 18 devices, including all of those that can update to 26.
Newton1701
macrumors member
Head to Apple’s developer website and you’ll see they don’t make an IPSW for any of the latest iOS 18 builds available for devices that can run iOS 26. Over the air delta updates, sure, but if you have to do a full restore it’s gonna be iOS 26.
jz0309
macrumors P6
HouseLannister
macrumors 68040
If you want to see their reputation, click on the author's name and read his headlines:
Zak Doffman
Zak Doffman's stories. Zak Doffman writes about security, surveillance and privacy.
www.forbes.com
klasma
macrumors G4
If they did, buying a used iPhone XS would suddenly become rather tempting. 😉
Apple’s potentially irradiating daisies with plutonium. As Apple, daisies and plutonium are things that actually exist, there’s the potential for it to happen.