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Is there an app you just can't live without? Use this tool to determine what devices can run that app (and for how long!)

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    How these results are generated

    The Short Version:

    Using the history of which devices did not receive each successive iOS update, we built a forecast of when each model will stop receiving the newest iOS version.

    We combined this projection, with data on the backward compatibility of the app you asked us about to forecast to dates that each device will no longer work with that app.

    This is very much a best-guess forecast: we have done our homework, but the results are not guaranteed.

    The Long Version:

    Every App developer makes a decision about how many versions of Apple’s Operating System (OS) their app will support.

    For example, it is common for developers to support either one or two previous major OS versions. Today, the previous major OS version was iOS 17 / iPadOS 17 and the one before that was iOS 16 / iPadOS 16.

    At the same time, as devices get older, they eventually do not receive the update for the newest Operating System. For example: the iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus and iPhone X did not receive the iOS 17 upgrade in September 2023.

    The best predictor of when a device will not receive an iOS upgrade is its processing chip: generally (but not always!) one chip is dropped per year. Using the example from the last paragraph, all those devices had Apple’s A10 chip.

    A knowledge of which devices contain which chips allows us to develop a forecast of when a given device will stop receiving OS upgrades.

    For example: the iPhone 13 has the AXX chip and we expect that it will not receive the iOSYY upgrade in 202Z.

    Then by looking at the supported OSs for a specific app, and using the forecast of when a device will not receive the latest OS, we can develop a forecast for when that app will no longer be supported by

    NOTE: Apple is not completely predictable in terms of dropping support for one generation of chips per year. This is very much an art, but it is our best guess based on careful observation of past results.