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I hate to be "citation needed" guy, but iOS 10 is ten years old and out of security updates for a few years. At what scale is it still used? In general, iOS has had a better lifecycle than Windows XP or 7 had, so surely there's not a fleet of iPhone 5s POS devices floating around.

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iOS 10 was released in September 2016 and got its last update in July 2019. [1] I agree that it is probably not used at meaningful sclae, but no need to hyperbolize how old it is.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOS_10

iOS 10 is definitely not 10 years old but it is nearing 6 years. For the iOS ecosystem, even iOS 13 is kinda old.

iOS 12 still sees a pinch of usage, because it was the last version (before 16) that dropped some devices. Anything older than that seems to be pretty much not used anymore except for extremely rare cases, based on browser usage statistics, at least.

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