Apple would like to tell you not use older software, so does many other people. But tbh it really doesn’t matter if you don’t use that iPhone to do some sensitive stuff like online banking or transactions.
Apple should announce like Windows if they're dropping the support. The same goes for the macOS.
Well, fanboys gonna say yearly WWDC is the announcement of last major version of iOS ending support, which is also tied to device.
This x1000.
Cause Apple cares no environment at all. Whatever action they are doing is just for their own benefit and pretend they care about environment. Customer contributing to landfill benefits their bottom line.
Likely Apple just quietly back away from it and never mention again. Or make that a one-off rather than a new policy.
My running theory for A9 and A10 support loss is battery life: iOS 15 obliterated battery life, rendering all 5 iPhones unusable with any slight battery degradation. iOS 16 and 17 were too much for the batteries coupled with iOS 16 and 17’s power requirements.
Last update for iOS 15 was iOS 15.8. That was less than 2 months ago (Oct 25, 2023).
They may have mentioned that they'd provide updates, but no company provides security updates forever. Apple certainly should provide a security update roadmap for all their products, but they unfortunately do not. As such, it's safe to assume that 15.x will not receive any more updates.
Not really, iOS 12 was the last version supported for a number of models. Then Apple kept supporting models up until iOS 15. So that's why iOS 12 do get a few updates there and then.
That's from the iPhone wikipedia page. That page lists the versions accurately although the yellow color for (legacy) supported isn't what Apple says, so "supported" doesn't mean actually fully supported. But Wikipedia is like that, their info is not always accurate.
