It is no news that all 32-bit applications and games will not be compatible with the next version of the operating system of the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch, iOS 11. Apple has been in charge in recent months, especially since the launch of the first betas, from informing both developers and users that applications that today are not compatible with 64-bit processors will stop working. All the applications that today are still in the App Store and are not compatible with 64-bit processors they will disappear shortly after the release of iOS 11.
The last 32-bit device to hit the market was the iPhone 5c, which offers us the same hardware as the iPhone 5. Both devices will not be updated to iOS 11. It was with the arrival of the iPhone 5s that Apple put its head into 64-bit processors and since now the vast majority of applications have adapted to this type of processors. But today, as reported by Sensor Tower, the number of applications that only support 32-bit processors rises to 200.000.
Games lead the 32-bit gaming rankings
According to Sensor Tower, of the 200.000 applications that support only 32-bit processors, nearly 40.000 of them are games, followed by educational, entertainment and lifestyle applications. Developers they have until the release of iOS 11 to update their apps to be compatible with 64-bit processors. If you don't, your apps will sooner or later disappear from the App Store, as they don't allow users with newer devices to take advantage of all the features that 64-bit processors offer. Keep in mind that both the iPhone 5 and the iPhone 5c have stopped receiving support from Apple, so continuing to maintain 32-bit applications in the App Store does not make any sense.
I think the fact that both the 5 and the 5C, and the 4 and 4s, without going further back with previous models, these are models that many people still use, and even though Apple no longer supports, it is not fair that some Perfectly functional phones, that even if they cannot be updated, are still functional, they will lose an important part of the catalog due to the simple fact that Apple decides that they are discontinued, they are 32-bit devices, and therefore they need applications of 32Bits, so if Apple continues with the decision to make 32Bits applications disappear from the AppStore, they are forcing people to buy a superior iPhone model, which I would not know to say to what extent this is legal ... already Let's see what happens, but for me it will be a tough legal battle for the owners of 32Bits devices, just as it happened when FaceTime disappeared in the old version of IOS ...
Legal Battle on 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 ...
Is it true that all these apps are going to concentrate on their own in a folder on the device?
I ask this because I have an outdated iPad where they run without any problem.
Searching one by one and transferring involves a few hours of work.
If they are grouped, it will be much easier, with the addition that if an app producer decides to update in these days, they would not have to back down.
If there is information I would like an answer.
Thanks since now.