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The iPhone 8 was sold new less than 3 years ago. Okay, new features shouldn't be expected, but patching known vulnerabilities should be required.

What does the iPhone 8 have to do with this discussion?

The linked piece specifically refers to iPhone 6S and iOS 15.8.

It runs iOS 16, where Apple has the same policy of only providing partial fixes. From the article:

> A new exploit targeting the iOS (among other OS’) Bluetooth stack has also been left unpatched by Apple in all versions except iOS 17.

iPhone 8 had a patch to iOS 16 released a week ago, 6 years after it was released and 3 years after it was last sold during a global pandemic?

And the entire point of the article is that those security patches are ignoring known vulnerabilities that are patched by Apple in iOS 17.