Thats very interesting. I have about 6 apps and mainly games.
Jackie
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On 4 Apr 2017, at 10:21 a.m., Flor Lynch <florlync@xxxxxx> wrote:
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/apr/03/ios-11-apple-latest-update-older-apps-stop-working?utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=GU+Today+main+NEW+H+categories&utm_term=220246&subid=12063383&CMP=EMCNEWEML6619I2
Alex Hern
Monday 3 April 2017 10.49 BST Last modified on Monday 3 April 2017 10.59 BST
Apple has released a new tool to help highlight apps that will be rendered
obsolete by the next major update to its iOS operating system. The tool
shipped to iPhone and iPad users with the latest update, to iOS 10.3.
Any app that hasn’t been updated since 2015 is likely to be rendered obsolete
when iOS 11 ships in about six months’ time, a consequence of a decision by
Apple to remove support for apps which don’t run natively in 64-bit mode.
The first 64-bit iPhone, the 5S, shipped in September 2013, and every app
that was created since then has had the option to run in 64-bit mode. Since
2015, apps and updates have had to run in 64-bit mode to secure approval from
Apple.
The latest version of iOS, version 10.3, includes a menu item (in Settings >
General > About > Applications) which will show a list of all the installed
apps that don’t run in 64-bit mode. “The apps may slow down your iPhone and
will not work with future version of iOS if they are not updated,” Apple now
warns users. “If no update is available, contact the app developer for more
information.”
For the majority of iPhone users, the items in the list, if any, are likely
to be older games, particularly those without a free-to-play business model.
Developers of those apps have little financial incentive to continue to work
on them after their initial burst of sales, even if they may have a steady
trickle of downloads in the long term.
Users who have been clinging on to older versions of apps thanks to disliked
updates will also find themselves forced to run software updates or be locked
out of the older versions.
App research company Sensor Tower identified 187,000 apps that will
definitely be rendered obsolete, since they were submitted prior to September
2013. Additionally, a significant number of apps created after September 2013
will have not been shipped with 64-bit mode, which only became mandatory in
June 2015.
Apple has not yet confirmed that iOS 11 will be the death knell for 32-bit
apps, but the update, expected to be shipped in September, would be the
logical time to pull the trigger. The company is likely to show off the first
beta of the new operating system at this year’s World-Wide Developer’s
Conference (WWDC), the biggest event in Apple’s annual calendar.
