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>Written on my iPhone 5S (2013) running iOS 8 (2014) - it is still a phone and is just as fast as it was in 2014. Is that planned obsolescence?

No. But it probably has known unpatched vulnerabilities, and you're putting yourself and people around you in danger of a security hack.




Yup.

It's unfortunate that I can't get security patches. I'm not willing to update to iOS 76 to get the fixes because I don't want to run code that is tested on an A12 on my 5 year old phone, and I don't want to buy a new phone because this one works fine and isn't larger than my hands.


FWIW I installed iOS 12 on my mom's iPhone 5s a few weeks ago, and I can tell you it ran much faster than iOS 10 or 11 on that device.




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