iOS 17 Rumored to Drop Support for iPhone X, First-Generation iPad Pro, and More

[winxmac]

iPhone SE 2020 and iPhone SE 2022 will be the only remaining models with home button still supported...

iOS 17 and iPadOS 17 may require A12 Bionic and newer

I have checked the base iPad models and there is no A11 Bionic version... iPad Air 3 uses A12 Bionic so it is possible that it will be the minimum supported chipset... Also, iPhone 8/8 Plus/X are all on limited support on iOS 16 and they may get dropped once iOS 17 is announced/released...

 

[StellarVixen]

I see this as a good thing. The narrower the range of performance thresholds the OS needs to hit, the more optimized it can be for what it does run on.

We all know that’s not going to happen. How many times this lie has to be served to us before we stop believing in it?

 

[GMShadow]

5 years is not that great compared with the current Samsung and Google update schedules which unlike Apple's are actually written down.

They will have had six full versions of iOS, and will get at least a year, possibly two of security patches afterward.

 

[spazzcat]

Can’t update home app anymore

I don't see them making that many changes, and your current iPad supports Matter.

 

[boyarka]

They'll drop that down to 3 years soon enough. Battery will be welded into the phone body but anyone willing to change it themselves (and continue enjoying no os updates) can do so with tooling costs 2-4x the phone price and wait 3 hours in tech support cue to get replacement battery "calibrated".

 

[npmacuser5]

why? will it explode?

Yep it will. Called security updates that could explode one’s bank account.

 

[morphineseason]

So 5 years seems to be apples limit now.

Always was, as far back as I can remember. Big reason why I got out of the Mac ecosystem (still clinging to iPhone/Watch and Apple TV at least). It's wasteful to be throwing away devices that could potentially last another 5+ years on top of that, but when they even drop support for security updates, you don't have much of a choice.

 

[Tripps9000]

Well that sucks about the iPhone 8 loosing support that was one of my backup phones😑

 

[JPack]

So, A10 is ok for iPadOS 17 because iPad. But A11 no good for iPhone.

 

[timber]

They will have had six full versions of iOS, and will get at least a year, possibly two of security patches afterward.

Yeah, not that great particularly considering the premiums Apple asks for.

 

[Syk]

I plan to update my X this year. Battery showing it's age plus I want to get on 5G, so I'll get the 15 and probably keep it 5 years too.

 

[supergt]

iPad 7th gen. is just over three years old. At the very least it needs to get iPad OS 17 and 18.

 

[Yebubbleman]

I wonder if the iPad Pro 2018 and 2020 will drop support at the same time?

The 2020 have 6gb ram instead of 4gb ram (aside from the 1tb model), and a better gpu, but both have the same A12 cpu.
Hopefully it takes a couple of years to do that.

I wonder this often. I think if they do cut off the 2018, but not the 2020 and/or if they make 4GB vs. 6GB the real dividing line, A12X/A12Z iPads that get let in will run whatever iPadOS version that the 4GB iPad Pros were disallowed from like crap.

 

[WiiDSmoker]

I don't see them making that many changes, and your current iPad supports Matter.

If only Apple had the technical know how to update an app without requiring an entire OS update. Absolutely ridiculous

 

[JPack]

iPad 7th gen. is just over three years old. At the very least it needs to get iPad OS 17 and 18.

iPad 6th gen supports 17.

 

[bigboy29]

A11 Bionic and iPhone X is getting pretty old in the tooth, that was late 2017. I don't know that many who still have that phone considering how we got several better form factors after that.

FWIW - I think the iPhone X is the best form factor of them all. I would buy a Pro series iPhone of that size any day of the week. Current Pro phones are (IMO) too large.

 

[Tripps9000]

FWIW - I think the iPhone X is the best form factor of them all. I would buy a Pro series iPhone of that size any day of the week. Current Pro phones are (IMO) too large.

The iPhone 11 Pro is the same form factor 👍🏻

 

[anonymous-A.S]

This is simply incorrect, my buddy says all devices that supported iOS 16 will support iOS 17 including all A11 chipsets.

 

[bodonnell202]

So 5 years seems to be apples limit now.

More like minimum 6 years is looking to be the standard for receiving the latest software updates (with 6-8 years being the range), with a couple years of security updates to follow.

 

[greenbreadmmm]

A11 Bionic and iPhone X is getting pretty old in the tooth, that was late 2017. I don't know that many who still have that phone considering how we got several better form factors after that.

Forgive my ignorance but how has the form factor improved since the X? Isn't it the same shape just larger?

 

[Verified Whiskey]

Hopefully this means some powerful new features are coming our way! Excited for June

 

[tipoo]

Any technical reason for the cutoff, or just old? Everything in iOS has been full 64 bit for a while, supports Metal, there's supported devices with similar RAM, what would be the technical line?

I hope this isn't becoming like macs, where the last few Intel cutoffs didn't seem to have any technical barrier apart from them wanting to retire old hardware.

 

[bodonnell202]

Forced upgrades cycle being shorter it was imminent

These devices will be 6 years old this fall when iOS 17 is released, and Apple will undoubtedly continue to provide security updates for a couple years after that. Please explain how that equates to "forced upgrades"?

 

[bn-7bc]

Wild that the iPhone X is already losing support. If this is true that is. How time does fly.

Not really that model is already 5+ years old, and it will still recieac critical securety patces a few years so rhat's not bad

 

[tipoo]

> The only exceptions would be the sixth-generation and seventh-generation iPad models with the A10 Fusion chip and the second-generation 10.5-inch and 12.9-inch iPad Pro with the A10X Fusion chip.

This is really rather strange. If the A10 iPad can run iOS17, the A11 iPhone X should be able to. So this doesn't sound like a technical cutoff at all, but rather a "that's old, we don't want to support it anymore" one.