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iOS 10 won’t be compatible with all iOS 9 devices

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You might need a new iPhone to get iOS 10.
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Tim Cook called iOS 10 “the mother of all releases” during today’s keynote in San Francisco, but Apple doesn’t plan to share iOS 10’s greatness with all the devices that are currently running iOS 9.

Apple made iOS 9 supported on more devices than ever last year by pushing it to all iPhones and iPads running iOS 8. This year though it appears that some users will be left out of the update, including iPhone 4s owners.

Here’s which devices will be compatible with iOS 10:

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12 responses to “iOS 10 won’t be compatible with all iOS 9 devices”

  1. UZ says:

    Oh how I wish I were an iPhone 4 user!

  2. Paul says:

    The ipad mini?? Wow upgrade that to ios 10 and i’m gonna bet it’ll run REALLY slow. Mine runs slow already on ios 9

  3. Jakkapan Chaisuwan says:

    iPad mini 1 , iPad 2, iPad 3 and iPod 5 not compatible iOS 10 !

  4. karroryfer says:

    iOS on Iphone 5 :) – its better joke then iOS9 on 4S

  5. Ishan Agarwal says:

    iPod 5 was earlier written but the website removed it now!

  6. Ishan Agarwal says:

    iPod 5 and iPad Mini was earlier written but the website removed it now!

  7. chiimaero says:

    Expected. iOS 10 being compatible with 1GB+ RAM devices seems logical.
    Expect iOS 11 to ditch 32bits.
    And iOS 12 to be 2GB+ only
    After that ….

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