The next iPhone operating software won’t work for all the iPhones that can handle iOS 15. Is yours one of the ones left behind?
The current software, iOS 15, is compatible with every iPhone from the iPhone 6s onwards. Intriguingly, that’s the exact same group of phones that ran iOS 14 and even iOS 15. In other words, Apple hasn’t dropped any iPhone for three years.
So, while many were expecting that iOS 16 wouldn’t work with the oldest of those phones, the iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus, both released in September 2015, there are three other iPhones that will no longer update to the latest software. First, that’s the iPhone SE announced on March 20, 2016, which is more than six years old, so maybe that’s not a complete revelation.
But it also sees the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus, from September 2016 losing support as well. Altogether, millions of people still use those phones and they won’t be able to update to iOS 16 with its cool new lock screen and myriad of other new features. Let’s put this in context. It means that every iPhone from iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus, launched in September 2017, and more recent, will work with the new OS. By the time it goes live, that’s phones first launched a full five years ago. Few Android phones offer that length of upgradeability in terms of software.
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