A new report today from iPhoneSoft claims to have details on which devices Apple plans to drop support for iOS 15. Notably, the information aligns with a preview report we saw at the end of last year, suggesting the iPhone 6s, 6s Plus, Original iPhone SE will be on the chopping block.
French publication iPhoneSoft says the information comes from within Apple (via Apple Translate):
Here is a first list of Apple devices that will host the iOS 15 beta next June, again collected from our developer friend from Apple and that makes the Plans app officially official.
At this point, it appears that Apple is planning to abandon support for iPhones with A9 and earlier chips. While this may not seem like a big deal to many, the iPhone 6s remained very popular in the resale markets.
The iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus were originally released in September 2015, with the iPhone SE coming in March 2016. These devices were very popular and received more than four years of software updates from Apple.
Not compatible with iOS 15:
- iPhone 6s and 6s Plus
- iPhone SE 2016
This is in line with the report we saw last November from The Verifier. But going beyond that information, iPhoneSoft says that iOS 15 is also “probably not available” in:
- iPad mini 4
- iPad Air 2
- iPad 5
Here’s a look at which devices can work with iOS / iPadOS 15.
Probably compatible with iOS 15:
- IPhone 2021 line
- iPhone 12 Pro Max
- iPhone 12 Pro
- iPhone 12 mini
- iPhone 12
- iPhone 11
- iPhone 11 Pro
- iPhone 11 Pro Max
- iPhone XS
- iPhone XS Max
- iPhone XR
- iPhone X
- iPhone 8
- iPhone 8 Plus
- iPhone 7
- iPhone 7 Plus
- iPhone SE (2nd generation)
- iPod touch (7th generation)
and for iPad:
- IPad line 2021
- 12.9-inch iPad Pro
- 9.7, 10.5 and 11 inch iPad Pro
- iPad Air 3
- iPad Air 4
- iPad 6/7/8
- iPad mini 5
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