XPost: misc.phone.mobile.iphone   
   From: mariasophia@comprehension.com   
      
   Keeping the topic together... for future reference...   
      
    Newsgroups: misc.phone.mobile.iphone   
    Subject: Re: Hackers have learned to remotely hack any iPhones running iOS    
   13 to iOS 17.2.1   
    Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2026 19:50:47 -0800   
    Message-ID: <10og7ap$23eg$1@nnrp.usenet.blueworldhosting.com>   
      
   Your Name wrote:   
   >> This is the reason why you should regularly buy a new iPhone.   
   >   
   > Complete bollocks and scaremongering, as usual.  :-\   
      
   While the OP didn't provide a reference for us to find the specifics...   
      
   There is some truth to that 'scaremongering', but as Chris already noted,   
   it has to be an old iPhone that no longer gets all known security fixes.   
       
      
   Since we're on this newsgroup to factually discuss the iPhone, it's   
   important to note that, compared to Android, iOS has very severe issues   
   when it comes to how Apple summarily drops the iPhone from full support.   
      
   Unlike every other common consumer operating system, Apple never in its   
   entire history has fully supported more than a single release at a time.   
      
   Even today, Windows 10 is still fully supported (for security fixes).   
   But that's not how Apple security bugfix support works.   
      
   Unlike every common consumer operating system out there... only Apple   
   only fully supports a single release (on both macOS & on iOS/iPadOS).   
      
   Note that every consumer operating system OEM extends belated support to   
   older devices, but it's not full support, and it's not a written promise.   
       
      
   Even Apple will sometimes update an older OS version when the need arises.   
       
      
   As far as I'm aware, of all common consumer operating systems, only Android   
   10+ phones are nowadays updated forever (via Project Mainline), but even   
   so, that's not full security support, either. It's monthly patches forever.   
   --   
   When I discuss security on Apple newsgroups, I tell it like it is, which   
   rarely turns out to be how Apple's brilliant marketing 'claims' it is.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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