14 DAY TRIAL // Apple’s new figures reveal that iOS 15 adoption isn’t as strong as the one of its predecessors, so the company is now ready to become more aggressive in its attempt to bring everybody to the new version.
The release of iOS 15.2.1 earlier this week has apparently produced a change that many may not like but which Apple seems as mandatory to keep all devices out there fully up-to-date.
The company removed the option to stick with iOS 14 and received further security updates and is now insisting on everybody to move to iOS 15.
Here’s how the whole thing works.
Back in the fall of 2021 when Apple launched iOS 15, the company allowed users to stick with iOS 14 and receive new security updates by offering the new operating system as an optional update in the Software Update section on the iPhone.
In other words, if users were running iOS 14 and didn’t specifically install iOS 15, they could just stick on this older version of the operating system, with their devices therefore being provided with security updates just like before.
The introduction of iOS 15.2.1, most likely mixed with the poor adoption figures of the new operating system, convinced Apple it’s time to play a different card. As per MacRumors, the company removed the iOS 14 update option, so now users still running this older version of iOS are provided with the update to iOS 15.
Furthermore, it looks like the company has stopped rolling out security updates for iOS 15, so now all devices currently on this older version of iOS need to move to iOS 15 to remain up-to-date.
iOS 15 supports the same devices as iOS 14. All iPhone models starting with iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus are therefore allowed to install iOS 15 today, with Apple reportedly planning to drop these older models with the release of iOS 16 this year.