Will your iPhone get the iOS 16 update?
We won’t see iOS 16 for a while, with Apple most likely announcing it at WWDC 2022 in June and releasing it alongside the iPhone 14 in September, but we may already know which phones will get it.
According to a source speaking to the French website iPhoneSoft, the iPhone 6S, iPhone 6S Plus, and original iPhone SE will not be receiving iOS 16. iPadOS 16 will not be available on the iPad mini 4, iPad Air 2, iPad 9.7 (2017), iPad Pro 9.7 (2016), or iPad Pro 12.9, according to Apple (2015). This looks to be a technical constraint since only devices with an A10 or later chipset will be able to run iOS 16 or iPadOS 16. The update will make processes such as iPhone transfer much easier than before.
It’s worth noticing that they appear more certain about the iPhone list than the iPad one, just stating that they won’t receive iPadOS 16 “likely.”
We’d take this with a grain of salt in any case, especially so close to the release of iOS 16 and iPadOS 16, but this source is reportedly an Apple developer, so if anybody knows, they should. However, with such little time till launch, anything might change, so even if this is the current plan, it may not happen by June or September.
iPhones That Will Not Get the Update
Surprisingly, Apple hasn’t discontinued supporting an iPhone in numerous software versions, since the release of iOS 13, which eliminated support for the iPhone 6 and iPhone 5S.
So dropping support for phones like the iPhone 6S, which has already gotten six significant software updates, is long overdue. The original iPhone SE is in a similar predicament, and some of the listed iPads have had as many as seven upgrades — however the iPad 9.7 (2017) has only received five, so it’s unlikely to be culled.
Even without this leak, we’d assume that most, if not all, of these devices, have received their most recent significant upgrade, but you never know — Apple hasn’t gone nearly this long without withdrawing support for devices in the past, so we’re in unknown territory here.
