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by captn3m0 1683 days ago
>Apple should spell out its update policies for older versions of macOS, as Microsoft does, rather than relying on its current hand-wavy release timing.

I maintain endoflife.date/iphone and endoflife.date/macos, and this has been a continuous problem - Apple doesn't provide a document that notes supported OS releases anywhere. The closest we got was in the iOS 15 releases notes which confirmed Apple would provide iOS14 with security updates (something that they clearly failed at).

Apple also released an emergency security fix for iOS12 when it was unsupported, which was nice - but Apple needs to clearly document when can users expect such fixes.

The only pages Apple does provide is list of supported devices, which only covers the latest OS, and is unreliable as a result.

https://support.apple.com/en-in/guide/iphone/iphe3fa5df43/io...