Owners of iPhone smartphones on the iOS 11 mobile operating system should expect all important functions to be shut down soon and “turn the gadget into a brick.” About this agency “Hitting the Primer” said Sergey Kuzmenko, head of information security of the Roskachestvo Center for Digital Expertise.
“We’re talking about extremely old phones that haven’t received updates for a long time. “These are iPhone 4, 4s, 5 and all models released before,” said the expert.
According to the expert, as a result, all the functions that connect the smartphone to Apple services, the AppStore application store, iCloud cloud services, Siri voice assistant, etc.
Kuzmenko admitted that he created his comment based on a leak from an unknown insider. According to the source, the services are scheduled to be shut down in May this year.
“Re-flashing old smartphones will not work, since the operating system is tightly tied to the model and hardware, and there is no way to put the new version on the old hardware,” said the Roskachestvo expert.
Formerly StellaFudge insider saidAlmost all Apple-branded services, except iCloud cloud storage, will stop working on devices with older operating systems. According to journalists, iMessage and FaceTime will continue to work on gadgets with an outdated operating system.