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Update your iphone and it will work

by cm2187 1y ago

isodev 1y ago
The whole point of going iPhone is not to have to deal with these kinds of situations.
- idle_zealot 1y ago
  Bad news: these kinds of situations are inevitable. You've abdicated control of your digital life for a comforting lie
- antihero 1y ago
  The whole point of using an iPhone is that you don't have to update it?
  - josefx 1y ago
    Choice and platform fragmentation in one neat bundle. I am almost surprised that Apple doesn't just force updates on everyone when it is possible just to maintain that additional bit of uniformity and conformity for its "think different" crowd.
  - isodev 1y ago
    No, the App Store allowing you to download an app with an extension target that doesn’t match the current system. At the very least there should be a warning or a button to update iOS if that’s possible on the current device.
    - TingPing 1y ago
      Surely a packaging mistake.
- xandrius 1y ago
  So you never got gatekept by Apple from accessing a feature unless you had a specific version of the OS? Heck, even macbooks get killed every year by not allowing them to build for newer iOS versions. The whole point of Apple, one could say, IS to make sure to forcibly make you update to access a new feature. That way either you can update or you've got to buy a brand-new device.
  - duskwuff 1y ago
    I'm curious what you believe the alternative is - "new features magically appear in released versions of an operating system without the software being updated"?
    - mathiaspoint 1y ago
      Seems to work fine on Linux unless you stick to kernels that are multiple decades old. Whether it's technical or social the situation on iOS is clearly inferior.
      - duskwuff 1y ago
        You're being disingenuous. There is more to an operating system than a kernel; new features in Linux software frequently require supporting software or libraries to be updated.
        mathiaspoint 1y ago
        Even the user space updates (outside gnome which most people avoid) don't make breaking changes at nearly the rate you see in iOS.
- criley2 1y ago
  >The whole point of going iPhone is not to have to deal with these kinds of situations. This is actually really funny because Android users have had the ability to use any browser they want for like a decade+, including browsers with adblock built in, and browsers with fully featured extension systems supporting all major desktop ad blockers, and it all just works. One click download, no setup, nothing. This is one of those places where Apple has intentionally made a terrible UX for you to steer you into their walled garden / first party products. You have to use Safari, you have to dig around in settings, you have to make sure your versions all line up, it's pointless rigamarole that will mean the majority of users stick with stock Safari, just as intended. In many ways, things "just work" on any platform Apple product managers aren't allowed to muck with...
ryandrake 1y ago
This doesn't work for phones that are limited to earlier iOS versions. Content blocking was available to developers all the way back to iOS 9. Why would these guys deliberately limit their software to only the latest versions?
- bhaney 1y ago
  There was a bug in Safari's registerContentScripts that was only just recently fixed in 18.6. uBOL needs that bugfix.
  - ComradeMatis 1y ago
    There was also bugs in the declarative net request implementation that was also just recently fixed - quite a few bugs have been holding uBlock back. The reason why uBlock hadn't come sooner was because DNR hadn't been implemented which would have required the developer to go out of their way to specifically re-write uBlock Origin to work with Apple's content blocking API but now Apple has implemented DNR it should open up the possibility for more choice in the content blocking extensions market.
- abtinf 1y ago
  The oldest supported iPhone is nearly 7 years old. Can you point to another officially supported phone that’s older?

Update your iphone and it will work

by cm2187 1y ago

Update your iphone and it will work

isodev 1y ago

The whole point of going iPhone is not to have to deal with these kinds of situations.

idle_zealot 1y ago
Bad news: these kinds of situations are inevitable. You've abdicated control of your digital life for a comforting lie
antihero 1y ago
The whole point of using an iPhone is that you don't have to update it?
- josefx 1y ago
  Choice and platform fragmentation in one neat bundle. I am almost surprised that Apple doesn't just force updates on everyone when it is possible just to maintain that additional bit of uniformity and conformity for its "think different" crowd.
- isodev 1y ago
  No, the App Store allowing you to download an app with an extension target that doesn’t match the current system. At the very least there should be a warning or a button to update iOS if that’s possible on the current device.
  - TingPing 1y ago
    Surely a packaging mistake.
xandrius 1y ago
So you never got gatekept by Apple from accessing a feature unless you had a specific version of the OS? Heck, even macbooks get killed every year by not allowing them to build for newer iOS versions. The whole point of Apple, one could say, IS to make sure to forcibly make you update to access a new feature. That way either you can update or you've got to buy a brand-new device.
- duskwuff 1y ago
  I'm curious what you believe the alternative is - "new features magically appear in released versions of an operating system without the software being updated"?
  - mathiaspoint 1y ago
    Seems to work fine on Linux unless you stick to kernels that are multiple decades old. Whether it's technical or social the situation on iOS is clearly inferior.
    - duskwuff 1y ago
      You're being disingenuous. There is more to an operating system than a kernel; new features in Linux software frequently require supporting software or libraries to be updated.
      - mathiaspoint 1y ago
        Even the user space updates (outside gnome which most people avoid) don't make breaking changes at nearly the rate you see in iOS.
criley2 1y ago
>The whole point of going iPhone is not to have to deal with these kinds of situations. This is actually really funny because Android users have had the ability to use any browser they want for like a decade+, including browsers with adblock built in, and browsers with fully featured extension systems supporting all major desktop ad blockers, and it all just works. One click download, no setup, nothing. This is one of those places where Apple has intentionally made a terrible UX for you to steer you into their walled garden / first party products. You have to use Safari, you have to dig around in settings, you have to make sure your versions all line up, it's pointless rigamarole that will mean the majority of users stick with stock Safari, just as intended. In many ways, things "just work" on any platform Apple product managers aren't allowed to muck with...

ryandrake 1y ago

This doesn't work for phones that are limited to earlier iOS versions. Content blocking was available to developers all the way back to iOS 9. Why would these guys deliberately limit their software to only the latest versions?

bhaney 1y ago
There was a bug in Safari's registerContentScripts that was only just recently fixed in 18.6. uBOL needs that bugfix.
- ComradeMatis 1y ago
  There was also bugs in the declarative net request implementation that was also just recently fixed - quite a few bugs have been holding uBlock back. The reason why uBlock hadn't come sooner was because DNR hadn't been implemented which would have required the developer to go out of their way to specifically re-write uBlock Origin to work with Apple's content blocking API but now Apple has implemented DNR it should open up the possibility for more choice in the content blocking extensions market.
abtinf 1y ago
The oldest supported iPhone is nearly 7 years old. Can you point to another officially supported phone that’s older?