iPhone 8 and later are getting iOS 16, support for iPhone 6s, 7 and SE dropped
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- 07 Jun 2022
DaFink, 07 Jun 2022I’m not sure anyone would really be complaining about the s... moreiphone 6s is the only exception that received so many updates.. Look at its predecessor the Iphone 6.. it's support ended at ios 12.. by the logic iphone 6s should have stopped at ios 13.. but it went on with 14.. and now 15
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- 07 Jun 2022
DMX, 07 Jun 2022Everyone complaining that the iPhone 7, a phone from 2016, ... moreI’m not sure anyone would really be complaining about the support the 7 series has received in a vacuum. It’s the fact that it has received less overall support that it’s immediate predecessors that that people confused. Their doesn’t appear to be any valid reason it is not getting iOS 16, which would bring it in line with the support term the 6S and original SE had.
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- 07 Jun 2022
Anonymous, 07 Jun 2022Of course the 7 outlasted the competition by a huge margin.... moreAnd no matter how many features it brings or how stable it is, I will probably remember this with a bad taste in the future because it killed the iPhone 7 (that I used for 5 years, don’t use anymore) with the 6s, essentially saying that they are about the same phone, even though Apple themselves praised the 7 as a huge step forward with a new design and completely new chip and water resistance, much better camera and all of that.
The perfect iOS update in my opinion was iOS 12. It was better than any iOS 11 version from day one in terms of bugs, performance and battery, it brought useful features like screen time, and it didn’t drop support for any device.
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- 07 Jun 2022
Of course the 7 outlasted the competition by a huge margin. I‘m still a bit bummed that it only got the same amount of software updates as the iPhone 5s, especially since the iPads still go all the way back to A9.
There was another one of some live caption Accessibility feature which only works on iPads with A12 Bionic or iPhones with A13 Bionic.
I don’t get what Apple is doing with the iPhones this year. It‘s true that most will probably upgrade their iPhone more frequently than their iPad but if they got it up and running on those iPad, might as well just port it over to the iPhones for bragging rights in longevity 🤷♂️
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- 07 Jun 2022
The Flip, 07 Jun 2022And on the flip side, iPhone users brag about how their pho... moreExcept that nobody complains about iPhones' batteries nowadays, especially with the Pro Max. And that's with a less battery capacity compared to the Galaxies' 5KmAh that behaves like 4KmAh only.
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- 07 Jun 2022
The Flip, 07 Jun 2022And on the flip side, iPhone users brag about how their pho... moreGood point lol though i must say iphone users are generally not tech savvy and will get baited by Apple. Android users are much smarter but will still get baited. Dunno what's sadder.
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- 07 Jun 2022
The Flip, 07 Jun 2022And on the flip side, iPhone users brag about how their pho... moreI never had any battery drop or whatever every update on my iPhone 😳 But, for my Android phone. I had to change/buy new ones after 2 or 3 years coz of the battery and suck to be truth, the OS update 😏
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- 07 Jun 2022
domraym, 07 Jun 2022On the flip side, android users always brag how advanced th... moreAnd on the flip side, iPhone users brag about how their phone gets long software support but whine and whine that Apple ruined their phone's battery life from those updates. Then they'll buy the next shiny thing... 🤣
Just throwing it back at you.
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- 07 Jun 2022
Anonymous, 07 Jun 2022They brag about having the best hardware on their phones ha... moreOn the flip side, android users always brag how advanced their phones are but will drop them after two years for the next shiny thing.
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- 07 Jun 2022
Anonymous, 07 Jun 2022They brag about having the best hardware on their phones ha... morehaha so funny now tell me which android phones has 6+ years of support apart from custom roms?
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- 07 Jun 2022
Anonymous, 07 Jun 2022They brag about having the best hardware on their phones ha... moreOh noes, how will I live with 60Hz display and no AOD. I guess there is nothing to live for then!
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Anonymous, 07 Jun 2022the 7’s probably one of the shortest lived (in terms of sof... moreAre you ok? "Shortest software support"? iPhone 7 is from 2016. It's 6 years old now. It even exceeds typical Apple's 5 years of major updates. And even now, it'll continue to get security updates for 2-3 more years and will be entirely discontinued after 10 years. This is how a typical iPhone support goes. I'd say it's not short lived but best in industry...
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- 07 Jun 2022
They brag about having the best hardware on their phones have the best hardware on their phones but the software stays like a decade behind in features lol. No 60 hz on iPhone 13 yet and still no AOD haha
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- 07 Jun 2022
RIP iPhone 6S & iPhone 6S Plus, iPhone SE, the last iPhones with a headphone jack. Also RIP iPod. With that, the headphone jack era of iPhone is sealed eternally away from the future generations.
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- 07 Jun 2022
DMX, 07 Jun 2022Everyone complaining that the iPhone 7, a phone from 2016, ... moreTrue that, my xperia Xz2 from 2018 was dumped in 2021 🥲
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- 07 Jun 2022
Using my original iPhone SE yesterday, I'm fine not getting any more support because iOS15 destroyed my SE1's battery life. Not that iOS14 was great on it but 15 destroyed it. I had to restore everything to new again and battery life is better and some of the glitches went away but not completely.
The best battery life was when it was still on iOS10. But it's harder to stay on that because you lose so much app compatibility. Updating software is so overrated. I wish my MacBook Air went back to El Capitan and not be on Monterey. Just takes up more space. People whine about wanting more software support. Then turn around and complain how the update ruined their device.
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- 07 Jun 2022
Sad the 1st gen SE won't get 16, but the phone is super cool and am buying it.
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- 07 Jun 2022
Doesn’t matter that much.
Most or all apps will probably run on those devices for years and if a security hole gets discovered, Apple will probably launch an update for them to resolve it.
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- 07 Jun 2022
Everyone complaining that the iPhone 7, a phone from 2016, no longer has support but Apple supported it for more than 5 years, which Android phone from that year received so many years of support? if just now it is that some manufacturers barely give 3 years from 2019 to here, samsung outside of google was the one who did it first
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- 07 Jun 2022
Anonymous, 07 Jun 2022the 7’s probably one of the shortest lived (in terms of sof... moreYeah not sure what Apple is thinking there, at first I thought it was down do iOS requiring an A11 or later, maybe because of the presence of a neural engine or the performance controller being capable of accessing all cores simultaneously, only two could be active at any given time on the A10.
But then it was pointed out to me that some of the older model iPads rocking the A9 are getting iPad OS16, which for all intents and purposes is iOS 16 anyway.
So again this is strange one, and not really fair to the 7 series, which are still pretty decent devices, especially the Plus.