Apple services such as Arcade, Apple Music, Fitness+ or Apple TV+ may stop working on some models of iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV and Apple Watch if users do not update to the latest version of the operating system .
Anonymous leak source by name Stella Fudge which previously revealed credible information about some of the brand’s products ahead of their launch, claims that in early May the company will begin shutting down its services on iPhones and iPads that are still running iOS 11. Also on computers Mac running macOS High Sierra on Apple Watch with watchOS 4 and on Apple TV with tvOS 11.
Therefore, users who still own a device with the aforementioned versions will not be able to access Apple Music, Apple TV+, Arcade, Fitness+, Podcast, and Apple Books. The only service that will remain active is iCloud, according to the leak.
Only 19% of active iPhones are running versions lower than iOS 16
Fortunately, any Apple device running iOS 11 can be updated to iOS 12, where the services will remain active. The same thing happens with the respective versions of macOS, watchOS and tvOS. The company can also send a notification to users who are still using iOS 11 to update if they don’t want to lose access to the various platforms.
In any case, according to Apple itself, only 19% of active devices work with versions prior to iOS 16. Of this number, 15% work with iOS 15 and only 4% with earlier versions. Thus, the number of people who have an iPhone with iOS 11 should be very low.
Apple won’t update some iPhone models to iOS 17
The news of the suspension of Apple services on these older iPhone models, which has yet to be confirmed by the company, comes after rumors that some popular iPhone models will not be updated to iOS 17. Here is the full list.
iPhone 8iPhone 8 PlusiPhone XiPad fifth generationiPad Pro first generation 9.7″iPad Pro 12.9″ first generation.
Also read: How to create images with DALL-E via Bing using ChatGPT.
