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You can stay on iOS 15. Nobody shoves iOS 16 down your throat. Apple even backports fixes for most dangerous vulnerabilities for quite some time. What you can'
by vbezhenar 4y ago
You can stay on iOS 15. Nobody shoves iOS 16 down your throat. Apple even backports fixes for most dangerous vulnerabilities for quite some time.
What you can't do is downgrade once you've found that you're not happy with upgrade. That's the most bizarre Apple thing. Unless you can jailbreak. Not sure if it works nowadays, back in days I was very happy to downgrade to iOS 6 with jailbreak on my iPhone 4S.
- dataflow 4y agoHow long do you think people will be able to stay on old versions of software like iOS 15? 5 years? 10 years? 30 years? Their lifetime?
- fsflover 4y agoThis is exactly why I avoid iPhones and prefer to support GNU/Linux on the phones. Such phones will have a lifetime support without anti-features.
- egb 4y agoNo, they forced iOS16 by only backporting security fixes for devices that can't run iOS16 https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/12/apple-releases-ios-15-security-updates-for-devices-that-cant-upgrade-to-16/ https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/12/apple-releases-ios-1...
- yftsui 4y agoNo, i think they are just messing up the devices force using iOS16 they think they can get away with. iPad Pro (2021) get iOS 15.7.2 update.
- passwordoops 4y agoI get what you're saying about staying on an old version, but, and we can split hairs here, preventing downgrade is in effect a forced upgrade. Ideally, there should be a system where security patches are installed, but anythingv what is optional and reversible