Let’s get to the key point of this article. If you believe this rumour, Apple will disable iCloud, Music, TV, Siri, Maps and other cloud services on older versions of the OSes. Specifically these versions:
- iOS 11.0 – 11.2.6
- macOS 10.13.0 – 10.13.3
- watchOS 4.0 – 4.2.3
- tvOS 11.0 – 11.2.6
This comes from “Stella Fudge” on Twitter who has proven to be a reliable source of this sort of information in the past:
Now it makes sense why Apple would do this. Simply put, they don’t have to take into account an OS that was current 5 or 6 years ago that may not have the functionality to support any changes that they make in their back end. Nor do they have to do any “bodges” to make something on their back end work on an older OS. Which means that the back end becomes a whole lot more stable.
Let’s assume that this is true for a moment. It means that users in the best case should upgrade to the most recent OS that their device supports. Or if the iDevice in question is simply too old to get a newer update, then you’ll have to buy a new iDevice. Hopefully, Apple has some sort of official notification that this is happening in the form of a prompt on your iDevice urging you to upgrade, or a support document of some sort. In the meantime, I’ll be keeping an eye on this to see if is fiction or fact.
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Is Apple Is About To Terminate Access To Some Apple Services By Older Apple OSes?
Let’s get to the key point of this article. If you believe this rumour, Apple will disable iCloud, Music, TV, Siri, Maps and other cloud services on older versions of the OSes. Specifically these versions:
This comes from “Stella Fudge” on Twitter who has proven to be a reliable source of this sort of information in the past:
Now it makes sense why Apple would do this. Simply put, they don’t have to take into account an OS that was current 5 or 6 years ago that may not have the functionality to support any changes that they make in their back end. Nor do they have to do any “bodges” to make something on their back end work on an older OS. Which means that the back end becomes a whole lot more stable.
Let’s assume that this is true for a moment. It means that users in the best case should upgrade to the most recent OS that their device supports. Or if the iDevice in question is simply too old to get a newer update, then you’ll have to buy a new iDevice. Hopefully, Apple has some sort of official notification that this is happening in the form of a prompt on your iDevice urging you to upgrade, or a support document of some sort. In the meantime, I’ll be keeping an eye on this to see if is fiction or fact.
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