zaicurity
stacksmashingOption A: Upgrade iPhone to iOS26 and have to use liquid glass
Option B: Get pwned by DarkSword malware
I don't know which one is worse
zoe 
@stacksmashing why not both :3
bilbo_b@stacksmashing just flip a coin then
starbug@stacksmashing if you choose option A you will also have to upgrade macOS at some point or your local backup wont work anymore
Siguza@starbug @stacksmashing do you actually have evidence of this? MobileDevice.framework is independently updateable, and based on the binary itself should be compatible pretty far down in macOS versions. So at least in theory, 10.11 should still be able to sync with a phone on 26.
@siguza @stacksmashing it happened at least once (I think twice) and its been a while that when I wanted to mount the phone into the finder it was complaining about incompatibility.
JP@siguza @starbug @stacksmashing I can anecdata on this (having for quite a while run macos and ios at different version tracks): beyond macos 13.x and ios 16.x, a lot of shit starts falling to pieces on sync and cohesion - sometimes immediately, sometimes randomly, some entirely. some stuff (eg Notes) will outright fail to work on the older device
it’s been stunning to watch how the experience has degraded over the last 6~8y
@siguza @starbug @stacksmashing source on this: my own devices, spanning intel and m1 mac, along with iphones (x, xs, 11, 14)
@froztbyte @starbug since you mention Notes - are you talking about iCloud sync, or manual sync through Finder/iTunes? Because I see no option to sync notes at all with the latter...
Dr. Christopher Kunz@stacksmashing fwiw they're massively toning down the liquid glass - 26.4. brings additional options to disable some of it. So my guess is that by IOS27, LG is fully rolled back.
john@stacksmashing I’d say on iOS it looks mostly fine. And it’s not that they had a good UI in past 13 years anyway…
@stacksmashing Option C: use GrapheneOS
rrmutt@stacksmashing This worked for me to get updated iOS18: https://www.cultofmac.com/how-to/stop-ios-update
@rrmutt @stacksmashing Are you on a beta release or can one install a stable release while under that?
@froztbyte I don’t know what “beta” means after release, but it’s 18.7.3 and seems perfectly stable