They got the memo... directly from Apple that drops fully functional phones with their SDK updates, only giving you tiny crumbs of security update once in a while
The iPhone 11 - the oldest version supported by iOS 26 - was released in 2019. My iPad Air from 2019 barely runs iOS 26 with 3GB RAM. What do you expect Apple to do differently?
No one is forcing apps to drop support. Apple has supported downloading the “last compatible version” since 2011-2012. And developers are free to support iOS 18. Why waste their time and resources when they know every iOS 19 user can upgrade to iOS 26?
Apple hasn't supported that, by the way, there are apps where you simply can't download the "latest compatible version"
Also you can't "buy it" even for free apps, you must've tied it to your account before.
And yes, it's also forcing by making it very hard to support older versions, see the side comment on SDKs.
they know every iOS 19 user can upgrade to iOS 26?
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They got the memo... directly from Apple that drops fully functional phones with their SDK updates, only giving you tiny crumbs of security update once in a while
The iPhone 11 - the oldest version supported by iOS 26 - was released in 2019. My iPad Air from 2019 barely runs iOS 26 with 3GB RAM. What do you expect Apple to do differently?
Not forcing apps to drop support of fully functional phones, especially over poorly designed visual gimmicks?
Imagine you don't upgrade to iOS 26 and don't lose out on any of the app updates?
No one is forcing apps to drop support. Apple has supported downloading the “last compatible version” since 2011-2012. And developers are free to support iOS 18. Why waste their time and resources when they know every iOS 19 user can upgrade to iOS 26?
Apple hasn't supported that, by the way, there are apps where you simply can't download the "latest compatible version" Also you can't "buy it" even for free apps, you must've tied it to your account before. And yes, it's also forcing by making it very hard to support older versions, see the side comment on SDKs.
Because not every user does? Obviously?
And the few who don’t aren’t worth my limited resources.