Apple is capable of updating its 2015 phones to the latest version of Android. Meanwhile, Google plus is canceling its 2018 models.
In WWDC 2021apple inside iOS 15the next major update of its mobile operating system, which will land on devices from autumn next year after a beta program beginning in July – although today, Developers cánido now install iOS 15 and iPadOS 15 on their devices–.
Like every year, Apple has withdrawn support for some of its older deviceswho will not receive the update to iOS 15 when it is released. However, this is made clear again with the arrival of the new version of iOS the work that Google plus and its partners still have to do if you want to keep up with Apple when it comes to support.
iPhone 6s, the immortal mobile phone that’s still getting updates six years later
After the presentation of iOS 15, Apple published the List of supported devices with the new version, completely off nineteen different iPhone modelsfrom the latest iPhone 12 to the iPhone 6S.
do not forget that 6S and vice versa agregado They were launched in September 2015, the date models like those Samsung Galaxy s6but the Google plus Pixel the first generation, which was still a year away from being presented to the world by Google plus.
Six years later, the iPhone 6S is still getting new versions of iOS.
This is how the iPhone 6S becomes the older phones that are still up to date with new versions of the operating system. As for Android, to date there is not a single 2015 terminal that has received Android 11, let alone updated to Android 12.
This policy is in line with the policy of Google plus – and other Android device manufacturers – that A maximum support limit of three years is only half of what Apple offers. Even Google plus itself couldn’t do that Extension of the support period for the latest devicesSo Android 12 is only coincidente with that Google plus Pixel was released from 2019. If you still own a Pixel 2 or Pixel 2 XL, you might be forgetting to get the latest version of the system.
Apple offers the option to keep the previous version of iOS
If there is evidence apple goes left over regarding system updatesthe last option introduced with iOS 15, a Company details on the change page the new version.
And that means, according to Apple itself, those who “feel comfortable” with the previous version of iOS, they will be able to select upgrade your devices or do not do it and continue to receive security updates. In a way, iOS 15 didn’t just copy some features from Android; It also gives iPhone users a oportunidad to discover one of the biggest issues with Google plus’s operating system for themselves: fragmentation.