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The newly announced iOS 16 will bring many improvements and changes to the supported iPhones.
Unfortunately, older iPhones won't be getting any of these features as they won't receive the iOS 16 update. Here are all the iPhones that will not get the iOS 16 update.
To download the latest iOS 16, the user should've at least an iPhone 8. Meaning only iPhones that were launched alongside iPhone 8 or after will receive the latest iOS 16 when it arrives this fall. This means iPhone 7 series or below won't get the iOS 16 update. Here's the full list of the iPhones that will not get the update.
- iPhone 4
- iPhone 4s
- iPhone 5
- iPhone 5s
- iPhone 6
- iPhone 6 Plus
- iPhone 6s
- iPhone 6s Plus
- iPhone 7
- iPhone 7 Plus
- iPhone SE 2016
The iPhone 7 and the original iPhone SE were launched in 2016 and received iOS updates for six years. The iPhone 6s and 6s Plus were launched in 2015 and received an iOS update for whopping seven years. That's a lot of updates for six/seven-year-old phones. Most Android phones offer three years of Android software updates these days, which means that older iPhones got twice the updates as Android. Samsung and Google have recently started shipping four years updates on their handsets instead of three, and security updates for up to five years.
If you have an iPhone 6s or iPhone 7 and don't want to give up on the traditional home button and form factor, Apple iPhone SE 2022 comes with the same body as older iPhones and will receive the iOS 16 and later updates.