When a new version of iOS hits the market, and the devices that are compatible are officially confirmed, the media quickly begin to speculate about which will be the next terminals to be will be left out of the next update. With iOS 14, all devices that had been updated to iOS 13 were updated.
However, that looks set to change with iOS 15, as it claims iPhone Soft, Apple plans to leave out the next version of iOS both the iPhone 6s and the original iPhone SE, that of the first generation. This publication also shows a complete list of the rest of Apple devices that will not be updated to iOS 15 as is the case with the iPad Air 2.
This information only confirms a rumor we published last year pointing in the same direction. According to iPhoneSoft, this information comes from an application developer.
If this notification is confirmed, Apple would leave the iPhone and iPad with the A9 processor and earlier without support, which can be a big problem for many users since the iPhone 6s and 6s Plus are still very sold terminals in the second-hand market.
Both iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus hit the market in September 2015. 6 months later, in March 2016, the iPhone SE was introduced. These models have received 5 years of updates from Apple, so it seems that they are ending their life cycle.
Terminals that will not update to iOS 15
Along with the iPhone 6s and the iPhone SE, the iPad models that would also be left out would be the iPad mini 4 (hit the market in September 2015 with the A8 processor), the iPad Air 2 (October 2014 with A8X processor) and the 5th generation iPad (March 2017 with the A9 processor).
All these terminals have continued to be updated thanks to the fact that they are managed by 2 GB of RAM, the same amount of memory that we can find in the iPhone 7 and iPhone 8 but not in the iPhone 7 Plus and iPhone 8 Plus, whose memory reaches 3 GB of RAM.
If we consider that Apple's update cycle is usually 5 years, It is unlikely that the iPad 5 is out of the market, since it was launched 2 years after the iPhone 6s, although both are managed by the same amount of RAM and the same processor, the A9.
We will have to wait for the iOS 15 presentation keynote to check if life cycle Of all these devices, it has finally come to an end. With iOS 14, it was also rumored that the iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus were going to be left without updating, and in the end they have done it and work like a charm.
