It’s beautiful.I stay on ios 6.1.3
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Update Your iPhone Now: iOS 17.4.1 Includes These Security Fixes
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It’s a vulnerability in the AV1 decoder they use, and macOS/iOS/iPadOS support for AV1 was only added several months ago I believe. So it shouldn’t be present in older versions of OSes.
People like you crack me up… too hip and cool to update. You rather take a risk with security than a few bugs, freakin hilarious 😂
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Nothing to do with hip and cool. I just prefer things not changing all the time. So I only upgrade every two or three iOS versions.
It’s important to update but I will be waiting a few days for any issues to be found. Then I’ll do it
I see why they don't want to list the bugs fixed before the flaw is patched, but at the same time I want to know what the hell is it fixing before updating.
Pushing the notification after I deliberately deleted the update files more than once is not helping either.
Not to mention that one of the update files does not read iOS 17.4.1 update, but "System Update".
Pushing the notification after I deliberately deleted the update files more than once is not helping either.
Not to mention that one of the update files does not read iOS 17.4.1 update, but "System Update".
Not updating in a hurry. Waiting to confirm that there are no major bugs.
100% Agree.
After the recent (and not so recent) snafus with updates on macOS, iOS I'm waiting a day or so before updating.
Life changes all the time. Your life will change very quickly if you’re on a website that has malware hidden in the adds.
I updated a couple of days ago and every day since have ended the day with only ~20% battery left!? A rare accordance before the update. 🤷🏼♂️
They'll never do it because thats not part of their ethos. Its very bizarre that every time there is an update, we're called idiots for not immediately updating our devices when they give us zero reason to.
Because Apple always likes to give users a few days to update before the bad actors use published vulnerabilities to give many more users a really bad day.
I need to just permalink to the last time I answered a post like this. No, Apple doesn't do it on purpose. Complex software is impossible to write bug-free.
Agree, but when iOS updates irreversibly obliterate iOS devices, because they do NOT allow downgrading, I don’t care if it’s intentional or not. I care about the fact it happens.
If you want a good device for years, never update iOS. Keep it on the version designed for the device, keep it on the device’s original iOS version.
What's really crazy is back in iOS 15 I think it was they even had a whole codename "Blast Door" to prevent execution in Messages, especially of images and PDFs. It doesn't seem to be working. There were still Messages exploits after that. I don't recall hearing about Messages specifically in a while but we still see these image processing vulnerabilities.
I don't know enough about how it works to really comment beyond saying that I know Windows has had issues like this for years because for some crazy reason years ago image processing had a kernel component.
I too don't understand how in the year 2024 image processing could lead to such a huge issue. I would love to see a technical explainer on this one.
I get your point but I kind of gave up this fight. OS vendors realized years ago they can use security updates as a stick to force upgrades to otherwise perfectly fine operating systems. Microsoft has been pulling this for decades. This is old hat to Apple as well.
At least they do still provide some security updates to older hardware that they won't allow to upgrade.
I personally would love to have iOS 15 on my iPads, fully security patched. But I can understand why that doesn't happen. At a certain point you can't go back through old code branches and be sure you've solved the same bugs because the underlying system may work differently at that point. Just too many branching timelines.
Agree, I’m under no illusion that Apple will ever get better at this. So I fight it. I don’t have access to internal downgrading tools, so I never update in the first place. Is it a perfect solution? No. But it’s the only one I have.
As a consequence, everything I have runs almost perfectly.
There was a “bug” with A9 chips on iOS 9 in which they were forcibly deactivated by Apple and forced to update. So I had to update my 9.7-inch iPad Pro to iOS 12. Perfect like iOS 9? No, decent, but far better than the obliterated iPads on iPadOS 16.
It’s the only device I have that doesn’t run original iOS versions. It’s the only way I have to defend myself against this.
It’s sad to see the vast majority of users fall into Apple’s “security” trap and obliterate device after device with the malware that are iOS updates. I try to help by recommending solutions to the most annoying aspects of staying behind, and I help friends and family members by telling them not to update. That’s all I can do. The rest... it’s your choice. If you want to destroy every device you have with the malware called iOS updates, you’re free to do so.
I’ll live with that risk, thanks.
They seem to be better compared to earlier versions: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/ios-17-battery-life-health.2391634/
Any compression algorithms (video, image, text, ...) and similarly complex algorithms processing input from network should be isolated from every producing output that could be executed. Let's just accept the minimal overhead from interprocess communication if that is needed for isolating the memory pages.
If you want to destroy every device you have with the malware called iOS updates ?
Dramatic much?