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Apple Faces User Backlash After Dropping Support for iPhone 7 From iOS 16
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People need to get over it, no device will receive support forever. Apple isn’t forcing them to do anything, they will still work on the current iOS software, which is very good.
Apple: We drop support for older devices so you can trade them in for newer ones. It’s good for the environment 
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Did you watch the keynote? This is far from a "minor" update. The neural processing alone for the text-to-speech improvements and pulling subjects out of photos is likely baked systemwide and would likely lead to such poor performance on older iPhones that they pulled it.
What's the alternative? Support old phones and risk fruitless class action suits from people saying "Apple slowed my phone down?"
To the people commenting whatever about Android, why does what they do matter to what Apple does?
If your neighbour only cut their lawn once every 2 years, does that mean you should only do it once a year because that's better than what they do?
Unless there is a real computational resource reason for not allowing iOS16 to run on iPhone 7, then it should be able to be installed. If it runs less than stellar, either offer a trimmed down version or offer a warning to the end user before performing the update.
If your neighbour only cut their lawn once every 2 years, does that mean you should only do it once a year because that's better than what they do?
Unless there is a real computational resource reason for not allowing iOS16 to run on iPhone 7, then it should be able to be installed. If it runs less than stellar, either offer a trimmed down version or offer a warning to the end user before performing the update.
6 years is a pretty good run for just about any device, Android is the only comparison that can really be made.. What other platform can be compared, Windows Phone? Blackberry?? Palm???
I mean, it’s not like the old days when the chips couldn’t handle the OS at all (like iOS 7 for iPhone 4 and iOS 9 for iPhone 4s).
At this point they drop support purely so you have to buy a new device.
At this point they drop support purely so you have to buy a new device.
Hi, the phone still works on iOS 15.
I have iPhone 7 Plus and iPad Pro (9.7”, 2016).
Apple should not be drop the support for the iPad Pro 9.7”.
What a shameful iPadOS EVER!
Apple should not be drop the support for the iPad Pro 9.7”.
What a shameful iPadOS EVER!
It's actually a 2.5 year old iPhone - meaning, it was sold as new by Apple until September 10, 2019.
Should I go and bitch to Honda that my recently purchased SUV won't support CarPlay 2.0?
security concerns.
Is iOS 16 really that much more feature-rich than iPadOS 16, other than the Lock Screen?
I’m not arguing Apple aren’t better than the competitors; there’s a reason all my tech is Apple. I’m arguing that it’s not good enough for a trillion dollar company to do something so environmentally unfriendly.
Likely ran like a bag of spanners so they left it out. Lesser of 2 evils. Get flamed for crap performance or drop that from supported devices.
Security updates on old devices come out all the time. Next.
It's not like the phone will stop working. Get over it. Just use it with iOS 15, which is a fine software.
Apple still selling the iPod Touch (till recently) and Apple Watch Series 3 that won't receive the next major OS update is a major YIKES.
They are still supporting it through security updates though. Even without the latest OS, the iPhone 7 will likely be functional for a few more years without major inconvenience. Some people here think that a device not supporting the latest release is automatically an obsolete product, but it will be as usable this fall as it is now.
Of course, I’d like too for apple to support major OS updates to older iPhones, but we don’t know for sure if this decision is purely planned obsolescence from apple or if there was some legit issues running iOS 16 on iPhone 7. It’s clear that apple is rapidly phasing out support for anything older than the A12, which is a big jump in machine learning. Many features in iOS 15 and 16 rely on machine learning capabilities, so there’s that
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Actually, those features would probably have to be dropped. I kinda think Apple just wanted to rip off the bandaid and have every iPhone on the current OS have Neural Engine support, instead of waiting a year for the iPhone 7 to roll off.
As for iPadOS, the optics of killing the 7th gen iPad would have been far worse. It was still on sale two years ago. But you just have to think that Apple probably bended over backwards to support especially the 5th Gen iPad with its A9 chip.
I have to agree with this. 6 years is a long time for a phone and you can't be backwards compatible forever, it's just not a doable thing in tech. A big issue though that I will complain about is the fact that brand new current iPads can't run Stage Manager in iOS 16. That's a much more valid complaint.
Apple can't support the hardware forever and the iPhone 7 is not going to suddenly stop working after iOS 16 is released.
While they’re currently getting sued hundreds of millions of euros in Europe for encouraging iOS 9 to be installed on iPhone 4S which really slowed down that device to unusability.
They can’t win.
They can’t win.
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No, obviously not.
But I bet you if Tesla released some sort of major new feature and stated that only cars manufactured in 2020 or later would receive it, they would receive a ton of complaints.
People will really cry about anything. Phone is old, get over it.