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About the security content of iOS 15.8.5 and iPadOS 15.8.5

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337 points jerlam | 1 comments | 17 Sep 25 00:34 UTC | HN request time: 0.201s | source
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occz ◴[17 Sep 25 05:19 UTC] No.45272005[source]▶
This doesn't really mean much on account of the iOS ecosystem only supporting the latest two OS versions in their apps as a general rule. Once you are behind 2 versions, your device becomes quite useless at that point
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Jaxan ◴[17 Sep 25 06:53 UTC] No.45272648[source]▶
Quite useless?! I still use my iPhone SE (1 gen) from 8 years ago. It’s working perfectly fine for my daily business. Sure, some newer apps I cannot install, but so far I’m not missing anything important. Banking apps work, navigations works, obviously the browser still works, etc
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1. brewmarche ◴[17 Sep 25 10:32 UTC] No.45274050[source]▶
I have the same phone but to be fair some websites stopped working (GitHub is among them) and some of my banking apps stopped getting updates as well.

No huge deal breakers _personally_ as I don’t need banking on my phone anyway (I have an iPad at home, and also checked that the banks offer authentication devices like TAN generators if I really need to get out of the iOS/Android ecosystem).

Apple Pay still works fine.

I hope that small phone has a long life ahead of it still :)