{"id":1196376,"date":"2023-10-25T15:31:05","date_gmt":"2023-10-25T19:31:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1196376"},"modified":"2023-10-25T15:31:05","modified_gmt":"2023-10-25T19:31:05","slug":"apple-releases-ios-16-7-2-and-ios-15-8-security-updates-to-patch-old-hardware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1196376","title":{"rendered":"Apple releases iOS 16.7.2 and iOS 15.8 security updates to patch old hardware"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"rss-wrap\">\n<figure class=\"intro-image intro-left\">\n  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Apple_iPhone12Pro-iOS15-3up_060721-800x540-1.jpg\" alt=\"iPhones running iOS 15.\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\" style=\"font-size:0.8em\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Apple_iPhone12Pro-iOS15-3up_060721.jpg\" class=\"enlarge-link\" data-height=\"1338\" data-width=\"1984\">Enlarge<\/a> <span class=\"sep\">\/<\/span> iPhones running iOS 15. (credit: Apple)<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<div><a name=\"page-1\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Apple is releasing <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2023\/10\/ios-17-1-macos-14-1-and-other-apple-updates-arrive-with-a-few-new-tricks\/\">a slew of updates<\/a> for its latest operating systems today, including iOS and iPadOS 17.1, macOS Sonoma 14.1, watchOS 10.1, and others. The company is also releasing security updates for a few previous-generation operating systems, so that people who aren&#8217;t ready to upgrade (and older devices that can&#8217;t upgrade) will still be protected from new exploits.<\/p>\n<p>Those updates include <a href=\"https:\/\/support.apple.com\/kb\/HT213981\">iOS and iPadOS 16.7.2<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/support.apple.com\/kb\/HT213990\">15.8<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/support.apple.com\/kb\/HT213985\">macOS Ventura 13.6.1<\/a>,<a href=\"https:\/\/support.apple.com\/kb\/HT213983\"> macOS Monterey 12.7.1<\/a>, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/support.apple.com\/kb\/HT213986\">Safari 17.1 update<\/a> for both of those macOS versions. At least for now, the iOS and iPadOS 16 updates cover older iPhones and iPads that can&#8217;t run iOS 17 and newer devices whose owners simply don&#8217;t want to install iOS 17 yet. Apple will eventually <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2022\/12\/apple-releases-ios-15-security-updates-for-devices-that-cant-upgrade-to-16\/\">stop supporting newer hardware<\/a> with iOS 16 security updates, but for now, the grace period is still in effect.<\/p>\n<p>This is the first security update that Apple has delivered for iOS 15 since mid-September, suggesting that the company plans to keep supporting 2021&#8217;s iOS release with continued security updates for at least a while longer. The iOS 15.8 update will only run on phones and tablets that can&#8217;t install iOS 16 or 17, including the iPhone 6S, the iPhone 7, the original iPhone SE, the iPad Air 2, and the last iPod Touch.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1978048#p3\">Read 7 remaining paragraphs<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1978048&amp;comments=1\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Ars Technica &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1978048\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Apple releases iOS 16.7.2 and iOS 15.8 security updates to patch old hardware<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enlarge \/ iPhones running iOS 15. (credit: Apple) Apple is releasing a slew of updates for its latest operating systems today, including iOS and iPadOS 17.1, macOS Sonoma 14.1, watchOS 10.1, and others. The company is also releasing security updates &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1196376\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1196377,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,110],"tags":[73],"class_list":["post-1196376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ars-technica","category-unfiltered-rss","tag-ars-technica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1196376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1196376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1196376\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1196377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1196376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1196376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1196376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}