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Robert Carnegie Silver badge

Re: iOS updates

Yeah, I'm still looking for news of support e.g. the rest of this year, though maybe theoretical i.e. if no updates are required then there will be none. What I can look up, that I know of, is which versions were supported recently, when an update came out.

It crosses my mind now that iOS 12 has been updated to include the SARS-COV-2 exposure notification function - my phone says hello in Bluetooth to yours when we meet, then if I get sick, I tell my phone to broadcast that it and I probably have been infectious, and your phone remembers that we met - and so while Apple and Google have been happy to say no to some more oppressive British government ideas about that, they probably wouldn't drop support for devices which people are using for that purpose, until SARS 2 is well dead, or has gone from "pandemic" (spreading everywhere) to "endemic" (just everywhere).

And we might have to patch the OS to stop a virus exposure notification virus.

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