Which iPhones support iOS 8

Which iOS devices will support Apple’s latest iOS

One of the sad bits of an iOS version update is the hard decisions you have to make with older hardware – an old iPhone, iPad or iPod touch may not be able to harness all the new features, or run the OS at all. Has the time come to upgrade your hardware? iOS 8 was unveiled at WWDC 2014, and some Apple fans will be crushed to learn that their devices won’t be able to run the new operating system. Here’s what made the cut, and will be able to run iOS 8: presumably iPhone 6 when it launches?)

or iPad Pro when and if they launch) and iPad mini 3 when it launches) Bear in mind, however, that the devices towards the lower ends of those sets will only get a partial share of the features in iOS 8. It’s also possible that they will struggle with performance issues - the iPhone 4 was the oldest iPhone that could run iOS 7, and ran noticeably slowly compared to iOS 6.

Which iPads and iPhones ran old versions of iOS?

If you’re interested in iOS history, here’s a list of the devices that supported previous versions of iOS. We used these to observe the trends and make our predictions before tonight’s official announcements.

iPhone OS 3: iPhone 1 and later; iPad 1 and later; iPod touch 1G and later

iOS 4: iPhone 3G and later; iPad 1 and later; iPod touch 2G and later

iOS 5: iPhone 3GS and later; iPad 1 and later; iPod touch 3G and later

iOS 6: iPhone 3GS and later; iPad 2 and later; iPad mini 1 and later; iPod touch 4G and later

iOS 7: iPhone 4 and later; iPad 2 and later; iPad mini 1 and later; iPod touch 5G