With iOS 10, Apple added last year
an alert to the systemto warn users if they were using a
old 32-bit app not optimized for their device with a 64-bit processor,
telling them it could slow down their iPhone.
This alert has recently evolved with the beta of iOS 10.3to harden with a
new postindicating that the app needs to be updated, otherwise it will not
will no longer work with future versions of iOS.
According to Sensor Tower, a company in "App Store Optimization"
(referencing for apps on the App Store) which analyzes every month the
App Store trends, more than200,000 apps are threatened
if Apple decides to no longer support 32-bit appsin iOS
11.
This would concern approximately8% of appspresent
in the App Store, and which have not been updated since June 1
2015, date on which the Cupertino company introduced the obligation to
updates to 64-bit.
The iPhone 5s launched in September 2013 was the first iPhone to integrate a
64-bit processor, and it was only from January 2015 that Apple had
imposed 64-bit support for new apps.
By adding this new, more threatening alert, 6 months before arrival
planned release of iOS 11 in fall 2017 at the same time as the iPhone 8, it is likely
that Apple drops support for old 32-bit apps with iOS 11.
This warning message is part of an initiative launched in September
last year by Apple. The idea was to clean the App Store of all
outdated apps that haven't been updated in several
years. This resulted in the removal of many applications that did not
no longer worked.
This mandatory transition to 64-bit with iOS 11 would allow us to have an App
Store cleaned of old, unoptimized apps, and therefore a new wind of
freshness which would arrive at the same time as the 10th anniversary model of
l’iPhone.
Unfortunately, this risks causing healthy victims, such as
games that work perfectly and do not need updates for
currently operating.
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By : Keleops AG
Deputy editor-in-chief, also known under the pseudonym Teza. Former video games journalist, who has been immersed in tech and Apple products since his very first iPhone 3GS in 2009. He has since worked for several American tech sites and now for iPhon.fr. Incidentally YouTuber and Apple product specialist on the MobileAddict channel. To contact me: maxime[a]iphon.fr
