When will Apple stop supporting previous iOS?

Question

I've got an app that hasn't been updated since a few years ago. It currently supports iOS 8 and later.

With the iOS 11 coming up this September, I heard that Apple will stop to support the iOS 8 at the same time.

What should I do to keep the app in the AppStore?

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

Currently, a few iOS 5 apps still seem to be in the App Store (and a few still seem to be functional on current iOS 10 devices). However :

iOS 11 appears to only support running 64-bit apps on 64-bit iOS devices. The first iOS version to support running arm64 slices was iOS 7. So any apps that are iOS 6 or earlier will no longer run after an iOS device is updated to iOS 11 (which is expected to start happening sometime circa mid-to-late September 2017). Any iOS 7 or 8 apps (submitted before 2015) that did not include 64-bit support will also no longer run after iOS 11 is released and older device's are updated.

Apple has also been contacting developers and removing iOS apps from the App store that do not contain 64-bit support.

If your app does not contain 64-bit support (an arm64 slice), and you wish to keep it in the App Store, you will need to update it with 64-bit support and submit that update to Apple.