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My i-thing says it's up to date at 12.5.4. Wonder what that means securitywise.

It means it's old and doesn't support iOS 13. My iPad says the same thing.

And according to Wikipedia, iOS 12 isn't receiving security updates anymore :(

However, the 12.5.4 is still quite a recent update (from June). I think there could still be some security fixes in the future, but probably only for very serious vulnerabilities.

Looks like you lost updates a few years ago, if anything big securitywise happens there's a chance they'll fix it otherwise you just gotta be hopeful you don't run into anything nefarious.

That's where I'm at with my iPad, which is stuck at iOS 10. It still works pretty well for taking notes or browsing the web, even though that version of Safari is getting pretty old.

For security, it's completely signed out of iCloud and all other services, and Safari is mostly for research purposes (so no social media, email, etc).

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