Apple basically harass users into upgrading. It doesn't work with everyone.
What you likely want to do is to download and install an Apple tvOS or watchOS beta profile that way it won't be able to check for iOS updates and won't automatically download them or prompt you to install them.
I've never had it prompt me incessantly on any device. I get notices once about a new update and then it doesn't bother me anymore. Maybe I'm just lucky.
I see on the pictures that it asks if you like to download and install. There is no way it updates on its own when auto update is switched off. There is also no way it downloads anything on 3/4G, if at all on wifi. Thats convenience if its true. But update? Forced? No.
If you don't install it then the downloaded update just sits there basically just taking up space for no reason. If you delete it it will get downloaded again at some point and will prompt you to install again.
I don't mind it sitting there because it doesn't prompt me. It would probably bother me greatly if I didn't have so much storage on my device. I usually keep my device updated after a week or two after the initial release to make sure there aren't any glaring issues with the update. I'm done with the whole guinea pig thing.
Yeah I don't get that either.
Not really, keep in mind that there was a cutoff with 32bit apps and there are some who I guess don't want to lose those apps. Then of course there's the iPad 2 which only went as high as iOS 9 and the iPad 4 stopped at iOS 10. There has got to be millions of those iPad's in still in service, especially the iPad 2.
It would be along the lines of what's described in some articles, like http://www.iphonehacks.com/2018/06/how-to-block-ios-software-updates-iphone-ipad.html, for example. (You'd likely need to get the tvOS or watchOS beta profiles for the latest versions as the ones in some of the articles are for some older versions and the profiles might be expired at this point.)
You've not read my posts.
Yeah ... I had some of those 32 bit apps ... but the apps were immensely buggy and had not been updated in years because they've been abandoned. I don't see a point in hanging on to those apps by sacrificing security.
Yes, this does work. But you'll have to check the web manually for iOS 12 update information because you won't receive them on the beta profile.
While that is true, I often wonder how much of a concern those are in the sense of actual real world cases where something like that actually happened. (It certainly doesn't really change my approach to keep updated, but I wonder nonetheless.)
iOS 12 made my iPhone 5S faster than it was the day I bought it.
Oh wow, I didnt even pick up on that. Probably means a lot of devices will be dropped for iOS 13 then. Makes sense, they will be left on the "stable" version
You assume most Apple users want choice to begin with. The ones I know would rather just have a good working product without the need to upgrade or downgrade constantly. The ones who do want choice are generally in this forum whining about their lack of choices.
32-bit phones were dropped in iOS 11, so iOS 12 was just repeating the same pattern. It remains to be seen what will be supported in iOS 13.
To be fair, having choices means that those who don't care about choices don't have to do anything and things won't be any different for them.
https://www.macrumors.com/roundup/ios-12/
From iOS 11, probably not much of a reason not to. From an earlier iOS version there might be some reasons (like 32-bit app support, for example).
Yeah ... if anything ... people should upgrade to iOS 12 immediately ... and then stay on iOS 12 to see how iOS 13 is. Staying on iOS 10 makes absolutely zero sense at this point.
That is a good point, but those apps are so incredibly outdated and buggy. I don't like being ball-and-chained to an operating system because the devs abandoned ship.
It can depend on the apps and the need for them. The main point is that there can be meaningful reasons that exit for some.