This a strange use of the verb "drops". Normally, I expect usage like: Apple to drop support for iPhone 7 in iOS 17. Or Microsoft to drop support for Windows 7.
So in this case it reads like Apple has a patch but has abandoned it?
Apple pushed several security fixes on Wednesday, including one for all iPhone and iPads used before September last year that has already been exploited by cyber snoops. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-32434, "may have been actively exploited against versions of iOS released before iOS 15.7," according to Apple's …