I guess at this stage there is still hope that 15.7.2 or 15.8 will show up on my iPhone SE(2020) when it becomes available.
Whether that means iOS 15 updates are done as well remains to be seen.
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If we look at Apple’s past precedent, and past behavior, based on this, iOS 15 will be supported for another two years with security updates for certain devices. Check out the Wikipedia article for ios12:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOS_12
If we scroll down to view the “release history “, we can see that when iOS 13 was released, there were multiple iOS and iPad OS devices that continued to receive security updates on iOS 12 for two years, because these devices were not compatible with iOS 13.
Apple has also been following this pattern with macOS for about a decade or more. When we can’t upgrade our Mac to the latest macOS, we will still receive two years of security updates on the previous macOS for our device. Side note: There is A bit more freedom on macOS in that a device that is able to upgrade to the latest macOS can choose not to upgrade indefinitely and continue to just receive security updates on the current macOS. Conversely, Apple seems to be forcing iOS 16 compatible devices to upgrade.
it also is possible that without announcing anything, Apple will suddenly break with a decade of past precedent, and suddenly abandon certain devices like the iPhone 7, which is stuck on iOS 15.
However, based on Apple’s past behavior and policy over the last 10 years, I think that the above described situation is very unlikely, and on certain devices, we will most likely receive two years of security updates on iOS 15. The security updates won’t be the super-duper flagship updates with new features that iOS 16 gets, but for some devices, there will probably still be some kind of security support with iOS 15 every couple of months until the autumn of 2025.
