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Toes ,

The reason is simply the developer has failed to understand that iOS 15 is still supported by Apple.

It’s not hard to target the older models, with iOS it’s mostly just a few small tweaks.

Telorand ,

And continuing that thought, OP can just contact the app maintainer and request lowering the minimum version.

I know it’s an odd recommendation when we’re so used to taking what we get from companies, but sometimes they respond to requests like that.

JackDark ,

I applaud you for using your iPhone 7 for so long, but seriously, it’s time to upgrade. I’m amazed you haven’t run into issues before now, and continuing to use devices that are so old opens you up to security flaws. You can get one that is a few years old for cheap, It will be able to access everything modern, and last you another several years.

Live_Let_Live OP ,

Actually i nearly crashed into a truck while driving because my iPhone suddenly heated up and went blank (i was using gps at that time), but i won’t upgrade just yet i am waiting till 2027, i heard apple is releasing revolutionary AR glasses soon

Brkdncr ,

That still happens.

solrize ,

The laptop (Thinkpad X220) that I’m using is much older than the iphone 7 and it runs current Debian just fine. Lots of people are running current LineageOS on similarly old Android phones. Why can’t the phone vendors do the same? Planned obsolescence doesn’t change by wrapping it with nice marketing words.

I have figured that if I needed to get an iphone for some reason, it would be a 6+, since that is the last version with a headphone jack (similarly for Pixels, it would be a 4A). But I guess that strategy won’t work any more.

kevinboone.me/headphonejack.html

tal , (edited )
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You can still get a few phones with built-in headphones jacks. They tend to be lower-end and small.

I was just looking at phones with very long battery life yesterday, and I noticed that the phone currently at the top of the list I was looking at, a high-end, large, gaming phone, also had a headphones jack. The article also commented on how unusual that was.

Think it was an Asus ROG something-or-other.

kagis

rog.asus.com/us/phones/rog-phone-8-pro/

An Asus ROG Phone 8 Pro.

That’s new and current. Midrange-and-up phones with audio jacks aren’t common, but they are out there.

Honestly, I’d just get a USB C audio interface with pass-through PD so that you can still charge with it plugged in and just leave that plugged into your headphones if you want to use 1/8th inch headphones. It’s slightly more to carry around, but not that much more.

Plus, the last smartphone I had with a built-in audio DAC would spill noise into the headphones output when charging. Very annoying. Needed better power circuitry. I don’t know if any given USB C audio interface avoids the issue, but if it’s built into the phone, there’s a limited amount you can do about it. If it’s external, you can swap it, and there’s the hope that their less-limited space constraints meant that they put in better power supply circuitry.

solrize , (edited )

I wasn’t aware of the USB-C adapter with pass through charging, but still, it’s extra crap plugged into your phone. Yes I have a Moto G series phone which is Motorola’s budget to low-midrange line. It has a headphone jack and it is full size. Flagship phones have a few more features but none seem important.

JackDark , (edited )

Just because the phone companies should be doing that doesn’t mean that you don’t account for what the current case is. My personal laptop is over a decade old, and my phone is several years old too. I am absolutely a supporter of using your old devices as long as they’re still useful, but when you start to become vulnerable to security issues on a device you use consistently everyday, you need to fix that, whatever the solution may be.

solrize ,

Those security vulnerabililties are because of buggy old software, and updating the software in the old devices does as good a job of fixing the vulnerabilities as selling you a new device does. A significant e-waste tax on every new device, accompanied by credits for keeping old devices working, might help with that. Anyway, if it’s an app (rather than OS) vulnerability and you can’t fix it with an update because the new version of the app requires a new OS, that’s mostly likely an app that you don’t need to use. I’m getting by ok with F-droid apps instead of Play Store apps, for example.

Best still would be to debug the software before shipping it, so it wouldn’t have those vulnerabilities in the first place. There are various forces that get in the way of that, but a significant one is that web development is now driven by delivering more advertising rather than useful information to the user.

JackDark ,

I’m honestly wondering who you’re responding to with this. Of course the vulnerabilities are software. Why would they be hardware? OP talked about how he couldn’t update the software to allow him to access an app he wanted to use. They’re on iOS, and you’re talking about Android. Do you think developers don’t debug their software at all? 99.99% of devs aren’t intentionally creating vulnerabilities in their software. We’re not talking about web development?

Toes ,

Hey careful there, the iPhone 6s and newer still receive security updates. Just not feature updates on the really old models.

endoflife.date/iphone

JackDark ,

Solid link, thanks for sharing!

sunzu2 ,

"spyware demands a new phone to buy goyslop" is Microcosm of modern life.

Welcome to today's America

Live_Let_Live OP ,

Fuck this zionist company, i support Palestinians now, i demand them to release ios 16 for iPhone 7+.

potentiallynotfelix ,

I don’t think they will even if you demand them. Apple is a profit-motivated company.

Imgonnatrythis ,

Depends if his username checks out I guess.

yoshisaur ,

pretty much every app will start to use iOS 16 as the minimum OS capable of running it. it’s best if you upgrade now so you can run all of your apps and so you have more security

sunzu2 ,

Woahh... Damn...

burgersc12 ,

Buy an Android, make sure it gets several years of updates and this will solve 99% of phone issues like this.

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