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> iOS also doesn't allow the browser to be updated after the hardware has reached end-of-support. Just simply not true. Plenty of browsers are still updated fo

> iOS also doesn't allow the browser to be updated after the hardware has reached end-of-support. Just simply not true. Plenty of browsers are still updated for iOS12 and 8-year old hardware like the 2013 iPad Air (which I still use every day) Edit: getting downvoted - while writing this post on iCab Mobile browser which was updated less than a month ago... Follow-up: Well I tested the language ‘feature’ in this browser - and though it didn’t crash, it didn’t run the function either. I’d forgotten what a sh*tshow of crappy and unnecessary garbage modern front end JavaScript development was.

modeless 5y ago
Apple has fooled you. Those aren't complete browsers. Those are simply UI shells around the system version of WebKit which cannot be updated or bypassed or replaced. No new web platform features will be added, no bugs fixed, and security holes are not guaranteed to be addressed.
- heresaPizza 5y ago
  While what you said is true, iOS 12 still received some security fixes, so the total support for the iphone 5s is 9 years and 8 for the 6. Critical bugs shouldn’t be that big of a threat (considering that even up to date phones are colanders.
ksec 5y ago
>Edit: getting downvoted You are getting downvoted because Webkit Engine is not updated with the browser. In this case iCab Mobile Browser. As noted in other reply it is merely a shell or skin on top of the OS Webkit Engine. Hence you are objectively wrong.
- mcguire 5y ago
  Technically, I downvoted because "I’d forgotten what a shtshow of crappy and unnecessary garbage modern front end JavaScript development was.*" while essentially true, has nothing to do with the question at hand.