The six-year-old iPhone 6S will get iOS 15
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The six-year-old iPhone 6S will get iOS 15
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Re: The six-year-old iPhone 6S will get iOS 15
#26s/6s Plus are great devices.
Last (full size) iPhone with headphone jack.
Put a case on it and it should last a long time.
Re: The six-year-old iPhone 6S will get iOS 15
#3Also worth calling out that the even older (2014) iPad Air 2 will be supported by iPadOS 15. It is the lone A8-series device with 2 GB of Ram.
Re: The six-year-old iPhone 6S will get iOS 15
#4This is why I bought an iPhone 12. I had a Samsung Galaxy S8 before it and I was perfectly happy with it, except for the fact that it had reached the end of its scheduled security updates. The battery life was still good enough for my light usage, it still ran my apps without a hitch, and the OLED screen still looked great, but it had not received a proper software update in over a year and it had just received its final quarterly security patch. I don't care that much for Apple products (except for MacBooks), but it's the only phone manufacturer that actually supports its products beyond the first few years.
Re: The six-year-old iPhone 6S will get iOS 15
#56s/6s Plus are great devices. Last (full size) iPhone with headphone jack. Put a case on it and it should last a long time.
I’d argue the original SE is magic... but it’s just a 6s crammed into the 5 case. As a mini 12 owner, I’m still sad “my spoon is still to big”.
Re: The six-year-old iPhone 6S will get iOS 15
#6Big deal. I just installed ubuntu 21.04 on a ten-year-old machine. There is no non-evil reason why the latest OS cannot run on yesterday's hardware.
Re: The six-year-old iPhone 6S will get iOS 15
#7Also worth calling out that the even older (2014) iPad Air 2 will be supported by iPadOS 15. It is the lone A8-series device with 2 GB of Ram.
For the A8 gen:
iPad mini 4 is A8 with 2GB of RAM and remains supported. iPad Air 2 is A8X (with 2GB of RAM) too and remains supported. Other devices to remain supported are Apple TV HD (A8 with 2GB of RAM) and HomePod (A8 + 1GB RAM, but no big UI to deal with).
Unsupported A8 devices:
iPod Touch 6, iPhone 6/6 Plus, both because of RAM size
Re: The six-year-old iPhone 6S will get iOS 15
#8Big deal. I just installed ubuntu 21.04 on a ten-year-old machine. There is no non-evil reason why the latest OS cannot run on yesterday's hardware.
There is a huge difference between a ten-year-old laptop/desktop and a ten-year-old phone—or, more accurately, laptops and desktops have advanced a lot less in the past ten years than phones have.
It would be a much better analogy if you were to say you'd installed the latest Ubuntu on a machine from twenty years ago (though even that may be generous, given that the iPhone was only 4 years old 10 years ago, while the Intel PC was roughly 20 years old 20 years ago)—and I'd expect it to work about as well as iOS 15 would on an iPhone 4.
Re: The six-year-old iPhone 6S will get iOS 15
#9This is why I bought an iPhone 12. I had a Samsung Galaxy S8 before it and I was perfectly happy with it, except for the fact that it had reached the end of its scheduled security updates. The battery life was still good enough for my light usage, it still ran my apps without a hitch, and the OLED screen still looked great, but it had not received a proper software update in over a year and it had just received its f…
Why not just unlock the bootloader and install a custom ROM? As you describe it your phone still worked perfectly fine.
Re: The six-year-old iPhone 6S will get iOS 15
#10While Apple are still supporting six-year-old iPhones, it's disappointing that they're dropping support for six-year-old Macs.