TechTabletsLove your old iPad? We’re afraid we’ve got some bad news…Apple won’t be upgrading every iPad when iPadOS 17 drops later this yearWhen you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
TechTabletsLove your old iPad? We’re afraid we’ve got some bad news…Apple won’t be upgrading every iPad when iPadOS 17 drops later this yearWhen you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
Apple won’t be upgrading every iPad when iPadOS 17 drops later this year
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(Image credit: Future)
(Image credit: Future)
One of the things that makes theiPadone of the verybest tabletsis thatApplesupports its older kit for years – much longer than you’d expect from even the bestAndroidtablets. But even Apple has to stop sometime, and when iPadOS 17 drops later this year it’s not going to be available for some olderiPadmodels.
According to French tech news siteiPhoneSoft, which says it’s seen details from an internal Apple source, this year’s iPadOS update is going to drop support for four distinct iPad models. Here’s which iPads will get the upgrade.
Which iPads are getting the iPadOS 17 upgrade?
According to the source, the iPads eligible for iPadOS 17 this year are:
iPad models older than the above will be kept on iPadOS 16.
For the very oldest iPads in that list it’s worth remembering that just because the operating system is available doesn’t mean you’ll get all the new features. This is more of an issue with iPhones than iPads – there are some key OS 15 features that weren’t made available to some of the oldest supported iPhones – but when the new features start to emerge it’s possible that they might not be available to everybody.
iPadOS 17 is expected to come out at the same time asiOS17 foriPhone, but as yet we don’t know what iPhones if any won’t be supported; there are conflicting rumours about whether theiPhone 8,iPhone 8 PlusandiPhone Xwill be left out this year.
Apple should give us more information about its latest mobile OSes atWWDC 2023, which runs from the5th to the 7th of June. TheReality Proheadset is likely to be the star of the show but we’d expect a lot of the keynote to be given over to Apple’s mobile OSes too.
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