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Bank tells customers to disable updates and not upgrade to iOS 16

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Re: Bank tells customers to disable updates and not upgrade to iOS 16

#13

Separately from the utter ridiculousness of this... ...can anyone guess what about their app might break in iOS 16? I was under the impression that iOS updates didn't generally break compatibility, unless it's locking down some kind of permission. But I'm having a hard time imagining what a banking app would rely on that would change underneath it?

Touch ID/Face ID lockdown most likely.

Re: Bank tells customers to disable updates and not upgrade to iOS 16

#14

Separately from the utter ridiculousness of this... ...can anyone guess what about their app might break in iOS 16? I was under the impression that iOS updates didn't generally break compatibility, unless it's locking down some kind of permission. But I'm having a hard time imagining what a banking app would rely on that would change underneath it?

Apple Pay is changing in subtle ways that can break payment flows.

Re: Bank tells customers to disable updates and not upgrade to iOS 16

#16

Separately from the utter ridiculousness of this... ...can anyone guess what about their app might break in iOS 16? I was under the impression that iOS updates didn't generally break compatibility, unless it's locking down some kind of permission. But I'm having a hard time imagining what a banking app would rely on that would change underneath it?

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Re: Bank tells customers to disable updates and not upgrade to iOS 16

#17

Separately from the utter ridiculousness of this... ...can anyone guess what about their app might break in iOS 16? I was under the impression that iOS updates didn't generally break compatibility, unless it's locking down some kind of permission. But I'm having a hard time imagining what a banking app would rely on that would change underneath it?

There is at least one expensive enterprise DRM/obfuscation/"code protection" tool that had a late breaking bug in the iOS 16 beta process, and any app that uses it works with with earlier iOS 16 beta builds while crashing on newer ones.

Re: Bank tells customers to disable updates and not upgrade to iOS 16

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Get another bank if at all possible

Or at least don't use their mobile app

IDK this is a giant red flag that the engineers running their infrastructure aren’t baseline competent, I wouldn’t trust these folks with my email, let alone my banking.

That said, this reeks of a contractor situation gone bad.

Re: Bank tells customers to disable updates and not upgrade to iOS 16

#19

This is one of the most exclusive banks in the world, counting the British Royal Family among their notable clients, and they can't even be bothered to keep their mobile app up to date. Pretty much sums up what rich people think about technology: make it sexy and powerful but I don't want to hear about ongoing maintenance costs. According to Wikipedia, new clients needed £500k in disposable funds to set up an account…

That's not a lot for a wealth managament firm.
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