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About the security content of iOS 15.8.5 and iPadOS 15.8.5

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328 points jerlam | 3 comments | 17 Sep 25 00:34 UTC | HN request time: 0.012s | source
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alexchantavy ◴[17 Sep 25 02:02 UTC] No.45270697[source]▶
Bunch of negativity on Apple UI recently, but you gotta give Apple credit for supporting really old phones. Google Pixel, forget about it lol
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cosmic_cheese ◴[17 Sep 25 03:01 UTC] No.45271120[source]▶
I have a functional Pixel 3XL that when flashed with one of the few modern Android ROMs available for it feels pretty fine to use for the most part… better than a lot of brand new low end Android devices, if I’m being honest. Too bad it’s not supported any more.
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DistractionRect ◴[17 Sep 25 04:41 UTC] No.45271746[source]▶
It's still supported by lineageos. It's just the installer doesn't do major version bumps, you have to manually reflash to higher versions.
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1. ThePowerOfFuet ◴[17 Sep 25 04:47 UTC] No.45271777[source]▶
If Graphene can do it, why can't they?
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2. nar001 ◴[17 Sep 25 08:15 UTC] No.45273206[source]▶
They can, they just don't want to add more engineering hours to that I imagine
3. jeroenhd ◴[17 Sep 25 09:59 UTC] No.45273835[source]▶
FWIW in my experience upgrading Android versions works, mostly, as long as you remember to uninstall the old Google Play services and then install the new ones.

However, without a tested migration path, it may break your phone and make you factory reset + reflash the ROM if it doesn't work out, and there's nobody you can turn to or blame when that goes wrong. There's no official support, but that doesn't mean it'll never work.

Testing migration paths is a massive pain, especially when you're upgrading a whole bunch of parts all at once, and volunteers have more fun and frankly more important things to work on.