Are you forcing people to update to iOS 18 when many people are advising against updating to iOS 18 due to the dangerous AI technology?

I am guessing you are referring to Dropping iOS 15 & other old browsers in July 2025, as @merefield said, the new minimum supported version will be iOS 16. As to the why: it is very time-consuming to support old operating systems. It is costly for us, every time we want to use new browser APIs in CSS or Javascript, the old OSs block us from doing so. For example, the announcement mentions a CSS feature, subgrid, which we’d love to use because it can simplify (and improve) layouts in Discourse core and themes.

Hi @Tom_Aasgardan, Why not just turn off Apple Intelligence? [Screenshot 2025-03-26 at 14.30.56]

[image] Tom_Aasgardan: Are you forcing people to update to iOS 18 [image] Dropping iOS 15 & other old browsers in July 2025 megaphoneAnnouncements Following the next stable release in July 2025, Discourse will start using some modern browser features which are unavailable on iOS 15, and some other old browsers. Discourse’s minimum supported iOS version will be updated from 15.7 to 16.7. After that, visitors using older versions of iOS will be shown a basic-html version of community content so they can continue to read conversations, but they will not be able to login to the site or post content. Devices limited to iOS 15 are the iPhone 6… Minimum supported version is iOS 16, not 18, from May

Is iOS 18 a requirement for Discourse?

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merefield (Robert) March 26, 2025, 9:36pm 6

Minimum supported version is iOS 16, not 18, from May

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Is iOS 18 a requirement for Discourse?

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