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Revealed: iOS 18 Works With These iPhone Models

Imory said:
That’s obviously great, but quite frankly something to be expected since Apple normally provides 7 years of OS updates to their Mac lineup. I see no reason why that shouldn’t encompass their phones when they’re effectively just as capable from a perf perspective.
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More recently yes, but they have a history of dropping support for items early too. Its good they're moving away from that.

On a completely unrelated note, I'm not sure why the article needs to cite every specific iPhone 15/14/13/12/11 model and can't just put all the different models on one line.
 
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Kylo83 said:
Kinda means there won’t be much major changes as they would have to keep it for newer devices; I would like a OS that drops older phones like xs so they can put more into it
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That's not how it works. iOS 17 dropped devices and is a minor update compared to iOS 18.
 
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il_teo77 said:
Still baffles me that iPhone 14 Pro is rumored not to support AI.
Especially considering that the iPhone 15 does have THE SAME A16 processor as the 14Pro, which would mean:
- either the 15 "regular" doesn't support any AI
- or the 14 Pro doesn't on purpose, which would mean an immediate lawsuit against apple...
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Dude, of course they will both support AI features. We just don’t know which ones. Perhaps they're gonna support the exact same functions but using more the server-side, although it’ll result in lower speed and privacy.
But these are hypothesis. Let’s wait 4 hours and we’ll know.
 
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Apple is the gold standard in smartphone software support.

Google is promising 7 years of updates, which is very good too.

If the major players settle on 8 years of support in the end, it will be fantastic for consumers. The trailing hardware is becoming more and more powerful, so there are less concerns of the updated software lagging.
 
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What about my 6S? If Apple don't support me anymore then why would I buy an iPhone 31?
 
In regards to the XS and XR, this isn't much of a surprise. The iPhone 6S received the same amount of updates.
 
bLackjackj said:
That is correct. AI features will be supported under the iPhone 15 Pro and upcoming iPhone 16 chipsets. The 15 regular will not be supported. The 14 Pro will not.
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I hope they will announce two versions of it.

1st option being on-device, exclusive to iPhone 15 Pro
2nd option being cloud based (opt-in), supported by at least iPhone 14 and iPhone 15.

It would be kind of silly to announce something today that can only work on a single device (iPhone 15 Pro) since iPhone 16 does not even exist at this point and not on the iPhone 15 which they still sell as the latest greatest today in some shape or form.
 
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Kylo83 said:
But if it was a bigger update surly it couldn’t keep support for the older one
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Why not? Apple has a history of pushing updates that older devices can't fully support. From the sounds of the rumours iOS 18 is going to be one of those updates.

Also performance jumps each year have slowed down. The XS is much closer in performance to the 15 than a 5 year old phone would have been in the past.
 
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While iOS 15 runs very fine on iPhone 6S, it’s traditionally been very hazardous to install a new OS on a very old phone. Often it ruins it.
If you care about your older phone - absolutely don’t install iOS 18 on it until at least JUNE 2025 when it is deemed safe to do so.
I’ve had several older iPhones ruined by newest iOS updates. It’s really risky.
In fact I’d go so far as to say that iOS 18 will likely be malware on iPhone XS and iPhone 11
 
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klasma said:
Apple is a major participant in the Unicode emoji subcommittee.
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Ah crap really? TIL. I’ll look into it more, I didn’t realize they were actually contributing to new emojis rather than just implementing them.
 
I don't mind some extra powerful features being restricted to the newest devices, as long as the old iPhones get the security updates and can be handed down to parents or kids. Unlike the iPads which don't get supported.
 
This is much better for the environment than their removing the charging bricks and earpods to save on "ewaste". And especially for those of us with PWM issues, our LCD phones will last a little longer since Apple is making the new SE OLED.
 
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Alexndar said:
Google and Samsung do now too, and they don't control as much. This can be said about battery efficiency, but not about software updates. There are Android phones released in 2015 still working today. I know many people who still use the iPhone 7 Plus is in great shape as their second phone.
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They haven't done it yet. Let's see what they deliver in the next 6 years.

Apple has been there and delivered it.
 
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Paddle1 said:
In regards to the XS and XR, this isn't much of a surprise. The iPhone 6S received the same amount of updates.
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It’s a bit of a surprise because the 6s was an outlier. No other apple iOS device has had that support

iPhone 7 and iPhone 8/X all had 1 less year/1 less iOS version support than what the 6s got
 
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