> Postponed my ios update as much as I could.
That's what I did with iOS 6 on my iPhone 4. I never did upgrade -- it was stolen before I was forced to.
Now it sounds like iOS 26 is going the same way. Makes me glad I own no Apple product new enough to run it.
I installed a little hack on my M1 MBA to block Tahoe, and it seems to be working. I wrote a piece on how to do it for others: