Andrew Cunningham
If you have an iPad that can run iPadOS 16 and for some reason you’re stuck with iPadOS 15, you should be ready to upgrade now. The iPadOS 15.7.3 update, which provides security-only fixes to the older OS, is only compatible with iPads that can’t run iPadOS 16, namely the iPad Air 2 from 2014 and the 4th generation iPad mini from 2015.
Apple supported all iPads with the iPadOS 15 update, regardless of whether they could run iPadOS 16. The last of these updates was iPadOS 15.7.2, released in mid-December. Apple will release these updates for some time. This allows observant users to remain protected from vulnerabilities while waiting for critical bugs to be resolved in the latest major OS releases.
But that grace period usually lasts only a few months. New iPhones were pushed to update to iOS 16 in December when support ended with the 15.7.2 update. The iPadOS 16 release came a month after his iOS 16 release earlier this year, so the 15.7.2 update also supported the new iPads.
The release of iPadOS 15.7.3 is the release Apple issued to most of its products today, including feature updates to the latest operating systems (iOS 16.3, iPadOS 16.3, macOS 13.2) and security-only updates to iOS and iPadOS 15. Part of a series of software updates. , macOS Big Sur, and macOS Ventura.
