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Hi @judr1001, Sorry that our increasing the minimum version we support has impacted you and others. The previous version of GitHub (1.148.0) will continue to work for iOS 15 devices. But yes, unfortunately, iOS 15 users will not be able to use newer versions starting from 1.149.0. For my understanding and to help inform our future decisions regarding OS version support, may you share your use case for remaining on iOS 15? What device are you using? If the device is supported by iOS 16, but you prefer to remain on iOS 15, why do you prefer iOS 15? Thanks a lot for the feedback and any follow up information you'd like to share. It is helpful in understanding our users. :) |
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Hello @HenSquared Thank you for your reply.
My iPhone SE 2 is supported by iOS 16 but there have been ongoing issues with versions after 15 reported, and my storage is also almost full. Because Apple stops signing older major versions to prevent downgrading if someone has issues (in contrast to for example macOS), I've become very careful before upgrading a working OS on an iPhone. Another issue I've seen with apps not receiving updates anymore, apart from missing new features of the app, is when old versions are not supported server-side anymore, which makes them stop working entirely. That happens for example with older YouTube versions. The example of the Apple Store makes old versions unusable promptly after a new version is out because of a non-dismissable popup to update to the newest version, which may not be compatible with the installed iOS version. What is more important is that people who can only afford older devices like a used iPhone 6s or 7, for example in so-called "developing countries", then do not have access to the latest version of the app. And that seemingly arbitrarily based on the changelog of version 1.149.0. If as an example, an Indian developer makes the equivalent of $500 per month, after paying for cost of living (despite maybe lower costs of living), not much is left for affording a new iPhone. I guess opinions may differ at that point but I'd appreciate technology to be accessible to as many people as possible, and that available money is as small of a factor as possible. And dropping backwards compatibility for older and more affordable devices for seemingly no specific reason works against that and seems immoral from that perspective. |
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What I'd like to add is that as a college student, I hear how sometimes other students struggle financially, and for those, affording a new iPhone poses a similarly big challenge. So there are multiple groups in different places which may not be in the position to always have access devices that the manufacturer deems sufficient to run recent major versions of mobile operating systems. But that doesn't change the message of my previous comment. |
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The minimum system should require iOS 17 |
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Hell no |
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With version 1.149.0 of the mobile app, support for iOS 15 is dropped. The only notable change according to the changelog is that a new icon was added.
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What is the technical reason that a different icon requires dropping support for millions of devices, like iPhone 6s, 7, SE1, iPad Air 2, iPad mini 4?
Also, the way you wrote „Update“ makes it seem like this is a periodic thing done just for the sake of it to keep the app up to date or something. More accurate would be „increasing“ the minimum requirements, which better shows that this change alienates a specific subset of users. An app can be up to date and still be compatible with older versions of operating systems, and there are enough popular and advanced apps and games on the App Store to support iOS versions like 15, 14 and even 12 or 11.
GitHub is one of the only apps I know, apart from Apple‘s apps (whose minimum OS requirements like the Apple Store App are also arbitrary and in the best interest of the company to sell more new products) to require at least iOS 16. What is the new API or changes that make it impossible to run on iOS 15?
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