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0 pointsalwillis3y ago0 comments

And nothing this month which means it's already vulnerable to pretty much all of the vulnerabilities that got fixed. Some could be iOS 16 specific but the vast majority are not.

The fact that there hasn’t been a second security update for iOS 15 doesn’t mean another one isn’t coming which it almost certainly is.

unless you're on the latest major version you're pretty much out of luck

As I just mentioned, iOS 12, a 4-year old operating system got updated a couple of month ago and iOS 15 will continue getting updates obviously.

To put things in perspective, updating iOS 12 means devices as old as the iPhone 5s were updated. The iPhone 5s first shipped September 2013—over 9 years ago!

I suspect Android devices released 9 years ago haven’t been updated in a long long time.

Besides, by the summer of 2023, something like 80+% of the installed base will be on iOS 16, which is what happens every year. iOS 16 is already a little ahead of where iOS 15 installs were at the same time last year [1].

[1]: https://appleinsider.com/articles/22/09/14/ios-16-adoption-s...

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ccouzens3y ago

The iOS 12 update mentioned is for webkit

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213428

Depending on your Android version the equivalent is either webview or Chrome.

The requirements for which are Android 5 and Android 4 respectively (according to a 3rd party website I found- the play store annoyingly doesn't list system requirements).

These were released 2014 and 2011.

Sometimes I think Google should be more in your face about app updates, especially ones that would be considered part of the operating system in other ecosystems.

howinteresting3y ago

The iOS 12 update was a one-off fix to an actively exploited vulnerability in Safari. Plenty of other bugs are still unpatched.

Plenty of old Android devices get some security updates too. For example, Chrome on Android is updated to the latest version on all phones running Android 6, which was released in 2015. Android long-term support isn't great, but that doesn't mean that old versions receive no security patches at all.

alwillisOP3y ago

Quoting myself:

The fact that there hasn’t been a second security update for iOS 15 doesn’t mean another one isn’t coming which it almost certainly is.

And it certainly did. [1].

[1]: APPLE-SA-2022-10-27-1 iOS 15.7.1 and iPadOS 15.7.1

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213490

frankjr3y ago

You were right.

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