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jimthing

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For those 32 bit apps, what did you guys do about them?

The trouble is, there are a couple are things I'd like to keep, but there is no way to know if the devs for them will update them again or not.

I have iPhone X on latest OS version, with all these 32 bit apps sitting inside my folders, so am wondering if it's finally best to simply delete all/most of them?

How have you dealt with these?
 

Marshall73

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For those 32 bit apps, what did you guys do about them?

The trouble is, there are a couple are things I'd like to keep, but there is no way to know if the devs for them will update them again or not.

I have iPhone X on latest OS version, with all these 32 bit apps sitting inside my folders, so am wondering if it's finally best to simply delete all/most of them?

How have you dealt with these?
I binned them. The developers had plenty of warning long before iOS 11 so if they haven't updated them by now they probably never will.
 

NoBoMac

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Deleted the five I had.

Option: keep your old device and treat like an iPod. Pull the sim card.
 
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Xenomorph

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but there is no way to know if the devs for them will update them again or not.

iOS and Xcode have supported 64-bit since 2013.

If a developer hasn't bothered to load Xcode to recompile their program in over 4 years, it's probably safe bet that they will never update it again.

There are a few extreme cases of sudden support, though. Infinity Blade received an update after 5 years.
 

zorinlynx

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JBL finally updated their app for the Authentics speaker line. So there's still some hope. Drop them in a "Forgotten apps" folder and hope you're someday pleasantly surprised by an update.
 

jimthing

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TBH, it was a good excuse to clear them all out, along with another load of crap.
...still some more to consider tomorrow.

450+ down to around half, with many of these so called "apps" doing the most pointlessly tiny things, back from the iPhone 3G days and beyond. Haha!
 

AZhappyjack

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For those 32 bit apps, what did you guys do about them?

The trouble is, there are a couple are things I'd like to keep, but there is no way to know if the devs for them will update them again or not.

I have iPhone X on latest OS version, with all these 32 bit apps sitting inside my folders, so am wondering if it's finally best to simply delete all/most of them?

How have you dealt with these?

Deleted them and found something else. Not the end of the world. It's part of the evolutionary process.
 
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