[rosetremiere]

Hard disagree:

I understand it's maybe a bit of an uphill battle to support a software stack that the OS/hardware vendor itself doesn't support, but:

1. telegram/whatsapp do, so it's definitely possible.

2. The point is not to add new features, but just to leave the current version be without deprecating it. There is probably a bit of a development burden in keeping old versions up, but I don't think it's that big: they could even let the community take care of that…

3. But most importantly, "the iphone 6 had a good run", so the natural continuation to that sentence is "so let's discard all those working devices" ? wtf? I think that from a company that defends "public interests", some more thought should be given to not wasting energy, time and money forcing people to upgrade working smartphones…

[kstenerud]

You can disagree all you like, but they lay out their policy here: https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/5109141421850-S...

My guess would be that they want to dump the messy and easy-to-screw-up CommonCrypto code and switch fully to CryptoKit, which was introduced in ios 13.

If you don't like their way of running their project, you have other options.

[gregjor]

I think you have an idealistic interpretation of Apple's PR. No one is forced to upgrade, your phone presumably still works as a phone and as a camera, music player, etc. Apple has nothing to do with Signal. They do offer a trade-in program, though an iPhone 6 won't get much.