Apple releases iOS 15.8.7 to fix Coruna exploit for iPhone 6S from 2015

Post by LLinguiniM » Thu, Mar 12, 2026, 2:32 PM UTC

anshumankmr wrote: post #14

This will really help the 10 people still using an iPhone 6S. (Still a common W for Apple updates)

Post by ryandrake » Thu, Mar 12, 2026, 8:11 PM UTC

seam_carver wrote: post #39

ryandrake wrote: post #35

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I think you might be confusing two things. iOS developers build against a particular SDK, but they specify a deployment target which is an OS version. You can build against the latest or near-latest SDK (in fact Apple requires you to), while still targeting arbitrarily old OS versions. The developer changes these independently. Developers can easily use APIs introduced after their deployment target OS. So if you want…

I think I saw a YouTube video where some developer said that Apple requires you to use latest version of Xcode, that version has a minimum SDK (I think iOS 15) and he was complaining he couldn't update his iOS 12 targetting app anymore.

Post by raw_anon_1111 » Sun, Mar 15, 2026, 6:41 PM UTC

philjw wrote: post #41

ryandrake wrote: post #28

This is nice in that Apple acknowledges that iPhone 6s and iPhone 7 devices still exist and are used. I wish third party developers would read that memo and get with the program. The App Store is becoming a ghost town of "This app stopped supporting your icky old device" warning messages due to app developers abandoning these phones.

Apple technically supports downloading legacy app versions, but the system is broken: it usually requires the app to be in your purchase history, and developers can opt to delete their old binaries entirely. Maybe something the EU could enforce is requiring Apple to offer the 'last compatible version' prompt for all users, not just previous downloaders, ensuring older hardware isn't artificially artificially rendered…

Post by raw_anon_1111 » Sun, Mar 15, 2026, 6:48 PM UTC

burnt-resistor wrote: post #13

Still waiting for iOS and iPadOS security updates to 18 as per the tradition of supporting the past 2 generations of OSes rather than this sneaky rug-pull of trying to foist fugly 26 on users who don't want an unusable device. This sort of spurious patching and releasing token cheap devices is a form of gaslighting.

Post by eviks » Sun, Mar 15, 2026, 7:34 PM UTC

raw_anon_1111 wrote: post #47

eviks wrote: post #36

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They got the memo... directly from Apple that drops fully functional phones with their SDK updates, only giving you tiny crumbs of security update once in a while

The iPhone 11 - the oldest version supported by iOS 26 - was released in 2019. My iPad Air from 2019 barely runs iOS 26 with 3GB RAM. What do you expect Apple to do differently?