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You’ll need an iPhone 8 or newer for the latest iOS upgrade.

at its Worldwide Developers Conference, including which phones will be eligible for the update — and which didn’t make the cut. To download iOS 16, you’ll need an iPhone 8 or later, meaning Apple is more or less ending support for the iPhone 6S, iPhone 7, and original iPhone SE.

The iPhone 7 and SE were released in 2016, while the 6S was released in 2015, meaning they received nearly six and seven years of software support, respectively. That is, frankly, a very impressive run. It’s also much longer than Android devices have historically had access to software updates, though Samsung and Google

in that department. Their midrange and flagship devices now get up to five years of security updates.with the same design as the 2016 edition, so if you’re a 6S or SE owner who’s fond of that form factor, you don’t have to give it up quite yet. And if Apple’s current track record is anything to go by, the 2022 SE will probably see software updates into the latter half of this decade, too.

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