I have the original SE, and when I say it barely works, I'm not lying. I'm kinda glad they dropped it...
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iOS 16 Drops Support for iPhone 6s, iPhone 7, Original iPhone SE and More
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still have a 7. very shocked they dropped support for those series, getting a 11 in September.
Hell of a run my friend!
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Unexpected that RAM wasn't the constraint this time.
The A9/A10 are still plenty fast so it's very strange. Seems like they want people to upgrade.
The A9/A10 are still plenty fast so it's very strange. Seems like they want people to upgrade.
And it will still work
I have a 6 as a backup and was pleasantly surprised to see it got a security update to iOS (12.5.5) last month.
How long do you guys think Apple will provide security updates for the 6s/7?
Me too. Given that it's basically a big iPhone 7, I'm worried my 2017 iPad Pro 10.5" might be on the iPadOS 16 chopping block...
Edit: Just found the list for iPad. All iPad Pros go on to survive another year.
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Apple typically gives iPhones, 5 or 6 updates including the version it ships with except for the 6s which got 7 update versions, iOS 16 makes 6 for the iPhone X so good chance this will be the last update for the X but maybe one more update at most
You'd think so, but apparently the only iPads dropped are the A8/A8x based iPads
I remember the A9 was such a huge processor improvement when it came out. Not surprised that it lasted this long.
I have two original iPhone SE's. Use one as a dedicated device with my treadmill and it still seems fast to me. Can surf the web just fine without noticeable delays. Recently thought that I might want to go back to it because of the size. Very convenient for my small hands. Still don't blame Apple for dropping support.
Well it is completely arbitrary, given that the iPad 5 is getting iPadOS 16, when it's basically a scaled up 6S. If anything it should be the other way around, the iPhone should run it, the iPad which is pushing more pixels with more complicated apps, should not.
It won't be supported. If you take a look at https://www.apple.com/ios/ios-15/ you'll see it listed at the bottom (under 'iOS 15 is compatible with these devices.').Let's get the important question out of the way: What about my 7th. Generation iPod touch?
If you go to the just-published https://www.apple.com/ios/ios-16-preview/ you'll see it's not in the list (but iPhone 8 and newer, SE2 and newer are).
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Which is very surprising considering 5th gen iPad has the same specs though as a9 iPhones
Can't say I'm too surprised by this. So many of their features require the neural engine now and plus the A11 is the first SoC with their own GPUs. Also, with a big.LITTLE architecture that uses both sets of cores at once as well as with no 32-bit instruction sets. This probably allows them to clean up the code considerably.
Then how are the iPad 5, iPad 6, iPad Pro 9.7, iPad Pro 12.9, iPad Pro 2nd gen (10.5 and 12.9) getting iPadOS 16, when they are all A9 or A10 devices?
Given the much larger batteries in iPads, I wonder if Apple's concern is with battery life rather than general performance. It's the only difference between the A9-A10 iPads and iPhones.
Could you have a 3rd-party vendor change the cracker screen cheaper...then use that as a trade-in for a new phone?