Yes, but the website is SO heavy and resource taxing (With the new look), compared to the app.
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Reddit App Ends Support for iOS 12, Now Requires iPhone 6S or Later
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Not surprising. It costs a lot to continue to support older devices and operating systems. Additionally, less and less people use them as time goes on. At some point you have to stop looking backwards in order to invest in moving forward.
Not a drama, for retro iOS enthusiasts Reddit can be easily accessed on-line, in old good Safari.
It also might happen that they are not able to use the old version if Reddit changes its API to break old versions, happens rarely but it can happen.
You need to have Xcode 12 right now and the oldest version you can support right now is iOS 9.
"Starting April 2021, all iOS and iPadOS apps submitted to the App Store must be built with Xcode 12 and the iOS 14 SDK."
This means that you can't use Xcode 11.x after April 2021 to publish app to the App Store. You can still use for local development but you can't upload the app to the App Store. However, you don't have to set minimum requirement to iOS 14 since(mostly) you'll need users from previous versions to reach. That's why there are still many banking, government etc. applications which supports iOS 9 and e-commerce apps which supports iOS 11*12(N-2 or N-3, N being the latest version.)
The catch for the developer is, you can set minimum version to iOS 14 to have the latest version, but having less user and you can set lower versions to build and you have to implement many if #available(iOS 13) {} conditions when you want to use the feature that's been added. Individual devs tend to follow N and N-1 for their users and companies tend to follow N-2 to N-5(usually they do N-3)
I just want them to fix the disappointing up/downvotes bug that has plagued the app for several months 
It is not obsolete for me! I am still using an iPhone 6 (on it's 3rd battery) that is still running perfectly fine and does everything I need, even with iOS 12 running. But now more and more Apps drop the support for iOS 12. That really pisses me off. It would be OK if you still would have access to the old compatible versions, but in many cases they are pulled from the store. This whole App Store BS is getting on my nerves. My iPhone is turning into a brick now, because it broke, but because some software developers just don't care about still perfectly fine running legal hardware.The last time this happened was when they switched the store 64bit exclusively. We had 3 iPhones 2 iPads in the family which became basically useless over night, because we didn't get any apps anymore and support for mots services was dropped.
Everybody gets their panties twisted at Apple about sustainability and natural resources, but this forced upgrade to new phones is urging some people even here in the forum to make bad jokes about "the poor guys who still have an old phone". So many people are pointing out how cool it is that Apple hardware lasts so long. But what if the hardware is still OK and Apple just pulls the plug? Seems to be normal for iOS. I am really not impressed. So I need to buy a new phone n the next few months, because Apple and the App developers think it is about time. Thank you for telling what to do and how I want to spend my money.
Actually still works on the 4S haha, just doesn't get updates. I'm pretty sure even the iOS 7 version still runs.
While dropping updates for iOS 12 seems a bit premature, it's not like you're immediately blocked from accessing Reddit on older versions. Though eventually the server-side code will change enough to break things.
If I were an app developer, and I am, I would say burn it to the ground. Not supporting iOS 12 means you lose 4% of users (and shrinking) but don't have to deal with pre-ABI-stability Swift or random old UIKit bugs and can freely use full Dark Mode APIs, SwiftUI, Combine, and lots of small quality-of-life improvements. It also simplifies your testing processes. Supporting old iOS versions is a lot of work for very incremental gain, and not indicated either from a programmer happiness point of view or a business ROI view.
Well I’m also a developer (not an iOS dev though) and I’d agree with you *IF* the app was new. If it’s an old app with an existing user base, then I disagree.
This is not OK. Almost 5% of the user base is not an insignificant number. And iOS 12 is just 3 years old. The world is really going crazy. Not supporting older OS versions anymore is forcing those people to scrap their hardware before it is due. Apple is greenwashing itself all the time while they product life cycles get shorter and shorter. That is not the sustainability we need so urgently these days. I have an iPhone 6 and with its 3. battery it still runs completely fine and even looks still very good. Since more and more apps abandon iOS 12, I am forced now to get a new phone and I can't even hand the old one down to somebody else. 3 years is nothing time wise.
I have about the same statistics... and without these apps, my phone renders basically useless for daily use.
iOS 12 is three years old, but the devices that can't run newer versions of iOS came out seven years ago, and stopped being sold five years ago.
The only reason I think about the reddit app at all is because of the insane amount of pesterware reddit builds in to their rickety website badgering the user to install it. ...which continues on the 6, even though the app isn't even supported. Pretty appropriate for Reddit's normal level of dysfunction then.
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