alt Hacker News> Safari from iOS 16, released in 2022, is more modern in every conceivable way than MSIE 11.
There are likely millions if not tens of millions of computers still running MSIE11. There are likely to be no devices running iOS 16
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kstrauser • today at 9:57 AM
According to Cloudflare, there are almost no users still on MSIE of any version.[0]
Statcounter says there are about 4.6% of iOS users still on iOS 16.[1]
My gut instinct is that there are multiple times more people using iOS 16 today than MSIE of any version.
[0] https://radar.cloudflare.com/reports/browser-market-share-20...
[1] https://gs.statcounter.com/os-version-market-share/ios/mobil...
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> There are likely to be no devices running iOS 16
My iPhone X is stuck on iOS 16 with no way to upgrade.
However, the phone is still working well. Despite being in daily use for 8 years it still has 81% battery capacity, has never been dropped, has a great OLED screen, can record 4K@60 video. It is far more responsive than a brand new 2025 $200 Android phone from e.g. Xiaomi. It still gets security patches from Apple. The only real shortcoming compared to a modern iPhone is the low light camera performance. That and some app developers don't support iOS 16 anymore, so e.g. I can't use the ChatGPT app and have to use it via the browser, but the Gemini app works fine.