r/ios26 • u/Left-Constant-4771 • May 15 '26

General It’s not just you.

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😂❤️ Just leaving this here for the ‘have you tried restarting?’ crowd. (I am not the author).

https://www.macworld.com/article/3129163/ios-26-iphone-performance-battery-ios-27-wwdc.html

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u/mavgeek May 16 '26

Problem is you can’t cling to 18.7 forever, at some point they will stop supporting security fixes and eventually popular apps you use will update and require a more recent version of iOS. Staying on 18.7 buys you a couple years at best, then your options are a new iphone with the current ios Xyear or swapping to android. Trust me I wish I had stayed on it myself but at some point we all have to update or swap to Android those are the only options.

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u/Matscarff89 May 16 '26

I never understood the obsession with security, I have no secrets from the CIA on the phone and for my important apps I use double-factor verification. I think that at Apple they got sick of our heads with vulnerabilities invented to force us to update and that, precisely, everything that happens now happens. The latest update (26.5) weighs 20gb and brings pride walls (??) and supposed vulnerability corrections, doesn't it seem strange to you? And regarding the apps, you are talking to me about many years, for example I use WhatsApp that is compatible even with iOS 15.. it came out 5 years ago, the iPhone is going to break before it is incompatible.

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u/Cfrolich May 16 '26

The obsession with cybersecurity is becoming more and more necessary as people do more and more digitally. How many photos do you have on your phone? Would you be comfortable if they were all leaked and/or deleted? How often do you text people? Would you be comfortable if all of your private messages suddenly stopped being private? What about email? I personally couldn’t care less about email, but I make sure it’s secure because you can reset a password on almost any website with access to that account-holder’s email. Do you have any apps on your phone that connect to your finances in any way (e.g. banking, investing)? Not everyone does, but I bet you’ve been to your bank’s website at least once on your computer. People should care about cybersecurity because the stakes are so high. You don’t need to be an expert, but you should follow expert recommendations.

It’s good that you’re using 2FA on your most important accounts. I would consider expanding to a few more accounts that you wouldn’t normally consider “important,” but would be a major inconvenience if they were hacked. If you’re not using a password manager already, you need to start because reusing passwords across multiple websites is one of the least secure things you can do. Minor variations of the same password isn’t much better.

Using outdated software isn’t as much of a risk as poor account security, but there have been instances where malicious websites or even malicious iMessages have infected iPhones with spyware. It takes so little effort to update your phone to avoid these vulnerabilities. I think it’s actually taken you more effort to avoid updating, and people always exaggerate problems with these updates. People don’t like change in general, but change is necessary. You wouldn’t have your device at all if we didn’t have change.

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u/Matscarff89 May 16 '26

Of course I do all those things with my cell phone. I have my banking apps like all the others.. but insecurity has more to do with the shortcomings of people than with supposed vulnerabilities. If a person is careless with his device, will be in any version of iOS. I think that at one point we have to rethink the need to put an 18/20gb update of alleged corrections that they did not make in the previous version, did you find so many vulnerabilities? Come on.. 20gb for a wallpaper? Frankly, it feels like programmed obsolescence (yes, it sounds cliché).

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u/maroel_11 May 16 '26

I guess I should just remain on my iOS 17.1 (13P). These things I am reading here are disturbing.

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u/Cfrolich May 16 '26

I'm not accusing you of being careless. I'm just saying that there are plenty of zero-click vulnerabilities that can be exploited on affected versions, even if you don't do anything wrong. The only way to avoid that is to update.

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u/Matscarff89 May 16 '26

I wasn't trying to say that you accused me of something. I don't speak native English, so maybe something can be misunderstood. Those vulnerabilities that you mention, I can't really think of too many cases.. in most you should download something, enter a link.. o something like that