> even if I jailbreak my iOS and never let it update.

Two things:

a) Why the would you never want to update an OS in this day and age ?

b) I understand the perspective of people insisting on wanting to be able to root their phone. But how about we take a step back and look at the reality of the 2026 security environment ? An environment where you have:

     - Increasing volumes of increasingly sneaky security exploits on one side
     - A phone with your 2FA apps, your banking apps, your email apps, your kids photos on the other

If I want to be root, I can do so on my desktop or a cloud VM or whatever.

But making root on a phone easy just seems like a recipe for disaster... if its easy for you, its easy for the bad guys too.

> a) Why the would you never want to update an OS in this day and age ?

Because updates break the jailbreak. If Apple actually had a sanctioned way to let you do what you want with the device you bought there would indeed be very little reason to not update.

Maybe your phone doesn't have banking and stuff on it

If I'm happy with how it's working, an update can only break things.