Twitter’s latest update has removed the app’s support for the iOS 12 version and requires iOS 14 to run, meaning everyone with an iPhone 6 can no longer access the vast majority of the platform’s features.
Obsolescence is one of the Achilles heels of technology, although in many cases it is the companies themselves that drive a device to become outdated. We can see it with the iPhone, but also with almost any product, that as the years go by and new models appear, Apple subtracts and subtracts functionalities.
The iPhone 6 was launched in 2014, and even though we are already going for the iPhone 13 version, there are still people with one, few, but there are still. The problem is that these smartphones have been limited and cannot be updated beyond iOS 12 version, currently the latest version is iOS 15.4.1, which makes many features and apps stop working on iPhone 6.
The last one was Twitter, which with its latest update no longer offers support for iOS 12making all users of iPhone 6, iPad Air, and iPod Touch 6th generationplease miss this app. For many it will have been a surprise, but Twitter had already warned him when at the beginning of 2021 he abandoned the system that supported this version of iOS.
But it has not been until today when the true effects have been verified. And it is that despite the fact that it has fallen, as it has been able to collect techradar, iPhone 6 users on Twitter could still see their Timeline, but no more features. However, all is not lost as the website is still working with total normality and despite not being the same as an app, it can be used to get out of trouble.
That said, this decision by Twitter makes sense, since, according to Apple itself, only the 2% of iPhone users they continue to use an older iOS version than 14 on their devices, making maintaining app support a very unprofitable task.
