iOS17 is coming, and it seems like it may drop support for the iPhone 8/8 Plus and iPhone X this year. And, honestly, that's a good thing.
With Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference coming on June 5, we’re expecting a lot of cool things to be announced during the keynote. This could finally be the time that Apple unveils its mixed reality headset, and — of course — we’ll be getting our usual slate of software updates for existing products. That includes iOS 17, which will no doubt ship with the iPhone 15 later this year.
Related While competing flagships from Samsung and Google, such as the Galaxy S23 and Pixel 7, are getting better with long-term support, it’s still not as good as Apple. Samsung is promising S23 users four years of software upgrades and five years of security updates. Google offers three years of Android upgrades for Pixel 7 devices while providing security updates for four years.
The iOS experience isn’t the best on older phones While Apple does support older devices longer than the competition, you still aren’t getting the most optimal user experience on said devices. Due to older processors and hardware, some of the newer features that Apple shows off during the keynotes aren’t available for the oldest models that it can be installed on.
Of course, if you’re still using an older device and it’s been working out fine for you, then that’s great. You probably don’t care about the new features, or they’re just trivial to you and don’t affect how you use your device. We did put iOS 16 on an iPhone 8, and it wasn’t as bad as we were expecting — it didn’t run slower than iOS 15, and battery life didn’t feel like it took a hit.
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