iOS 19 and its exciting new design won’t work on all iPhones that run iOS 18

Before Android vendors like Samsung and Google started promoting seven years of software updates for the latest Android handsets, only Apple used to deliver that sort of prolonged support. While Apple never committed to a fixed number of updates, the iPhone would routinely get at least some five releases on top of the software it launched with.

But Apple also has to routinely remove older iPhones from the list of supported devices, as new requirements for upcoming iOS releases might be impossible to meet by those older devices.

iOS 19, set to be unveiled at WWDC 2025 in a few months, will supposedly remove support from the three oldest iPhone models that can still run iOS 18. That contradicts a report that said all iOS 18 phones will also run iOS 19 this fall.

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