{"id":32952,"date":"2021-06-29T15:10:07","date_gmt":"2021-06-29T19:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=32952"},"modified":"2021-06-29T15:15:51","modified_gmt":"2021-06-29T19:15:51","slug":"allowing-ios-security-updates-without-upgrading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/29\/allowing-ios-security-updates-without-upgrading\/","title":{"rendered":"Allowing iOS Security Updates Without Upgrading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2021\/03\/15\/ios-security-fixes-could-soon-be-delivered-separately-from-other-updates-beta-code-suggests\/\">Filipe Esp&oacute;sito<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2021\/03\/15\/ios-security-fixes-could-soon-be-delivered-separately-from-other-updates-beta-code-suggests\/\"><p>Apple has never been flexible when it comes to iOS updates. While users can choose not to install an update, you will be left without security fixes if you don&rsquo;t install the latest version of iOS available. Although Apple still updates iOS 12 for older iPhones and iPads, devices currently supported by the company don&rsquo;t have the option to run this operating system with the latest security updates.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2021\/06\/07\/apple-will-let-users-stay-on-ios-14-and-receive-security-updates-even-after-ios-15-is-released\/\">Benjamin Mayo<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2021\/06\/07\/apple-will-let-users-stay-on-ios-14-and-receive-security-updates-even-after-ios-15-is-released\/\">\n<p>For the first time, Apple will allow users to stay on the previous major version when iOS 15 ships in the fall. Users will have the choice to stay on iOS 14 and receive important security updates, or upgrade to iOS 15 to take advantage of all the new features.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>So, more like the Mac. Bravo.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Filipe Esp&oacute;sito: Apple has never been flexible when it comes to iOS updates. While users can choose not to install an update, you will be left without security fixes if you don&rsquo;t install the latest version of iOS available. Although Apple still updates iOS 12 for older iPhones and iPads, devices currently supported by the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2021-06-29T19:10:11Z","apple_news_api_id":"cb7cdfea-1b65-4337-b497-51b42b44cd32","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2021-06-29T19:15:54Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/Ay3zf6htlQze0l1G0K0TNMg","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31,1837,2078,48,2087],"class_list":["post-32952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-ios","tag-ios-14","tag-ios-15","tag-security","tag-software-update"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32952"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32953,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32952\/revisions\/32953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}