Is it mandatory to update iOS?

Bro, I bought i phone 13 couple of months ago. Currently phone is running in Ios16.5.1.
For now I don’t have any issues or bugs in my mobile and i am satisfied with it I saw many 13 users are facing issue’s after updating to ios17. Is it mandatory or necessary to update ? Or stay with this iOS because i am good with this one. Also in future will the regular usage of applications like socialmedia work under ios16?

Hi bro, if current version is working perfect for your every day usage you may continue with same version. Also apple service centers are replacing displays if any green screen appears even if the warranty is over.

it may take 5+ years for app developers to stop support for older version of iOS.

Othertimes, if we are facing any crashes or issues, we have to update apps and iOS to check whether any server side changes by the apps causing such problems.

Also if one considers receiving security updates then we may keep the iOS version updated to latest version or not.

There are some users who still stay in older verison bro. so you can stay, and update within iOS 16 versions only to receive those security and bug fixes.

Thanks for the response. I don’t get the last statement of this paragraph. Do you mean security updates to be done in 16 itself?
Because in the software update i see only ios 17.2.1. None other than this, I don’t see anything. Just a confused reply of mine, thanks for understanding

Yes bro. to not miss out on security fixes, apple does provide updates to people who want to stay within last iOS major version. In todays case its iOS 16 associated updates. iOS 16.7.3 is the latest one.

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Thanks much Robin bro