> It’s actually quite interesting that Apple does not force software updates, or perform them in a hard-to-disable-or-detect manner.
Since at least iOS 14, automatic updates are defaulted to on in the out of box setup flow, and it's up to you to go in and turn them off, several screens later in the settings app once the OOBE is complete. It tells you it's doing this but offers no ability to opt out.
Subsequent updates have restored the autoupdate switch to on, explicitly reverting my choice. It's now part of my iOS point release update checklist to ensure that autoupdates are disabled.
I don't think Gruber is being entirely up-front here. Apple very aggressively wants all iOS devices on the latest supported version.
Since at least iOS 14, automatic updates are defaulted to on in the out of box setup flow, and it's up to you to go in and turn them off, several screens later in the settings app once the OOBE is complete. It tells you it's doing this but offers no ability to opt out.
Subsequent updates have restored the autoupdate switch to on, explicitly reverting my choice. It's now part of my iOS point release update checklist to ensure that autoupdates are disabled.
I don't think Gruber is being entirely up-front here. Apple very aggressively wants all iOS devices on the latest supported version.