Wait, so if iPhones get older than 5 years and Apple stop providing updates, it stops running apps too?
Yep many apps in ios stop getting updates. Android versions of the same app receive support much longer tha. Ios
im still rocking my iPad 2 and use it for remote controlling my audio equipment in the studio!! still works smooth
I`m pretty sure the iPhone 7 runs 1 year old versions of Apple apps already. But yes they lose out on support fairly fast. For comparison a google/LG nexus 5 STILL can run the latest versions of apps and it gets the new Google layouts for apps (even though it`s on android 6.0.1)
Actually devs can support 9 year old iOS versions too but the issue is, once u need to use older version of the Xcode for that, which makes ZERO sense to devs so eventually after 2-3 years of update cycle, apps stops working
No, not the case. Apps that have support for that version of the OS will run pretty good regardless of being more than 5 years old or more.
Unsupported apps wont run.
Depends if the app doesn`t run in a older version of IOS, it rarely happen right after the device stop getting the updates, that takes like 2 or 3 years to start happening. My mom didn`t update her Iphone Xs Max to the IOS 15 and it still runs all the apps just fine
Does it really?
Actually no. For example, Even when Apple stopped supporting iOS 12 it still got updates for years.
No, they keep running apps, but its a slow and painful process to desupported apps, which usually resort to running legacy versions of the app
