An Israeli magazine anticipates the list of iOS 14 compatible iPhones. And, if confirmed, it would allow you to update 6-year-old iPhones
The backward compatibility of iOS 14, the latest version of Apple’s mobile operating system that will be officially presented on June 22 during the World Wide Developer Conference 2020 (which for the first time in history, due to coronavirus, will be an online-only event) will reach six-year-old devices.
The Israeli portal The Verifier has in fact released a first list, considered reliable, of Apple devices that will be compatible with iOS 14. And it’s a long one, because in addition to containing the upcoming iPhone 12, the list includes all Apple smartphones up to the iPhone SE. The first SE, not the 2020 one (which will obviously be compatible, being brand new). Naturalmente non c’è modo di accertare l’affidabilità di questa lista, ma l’elenco dei modelli sembra credibile perché Apple ha più volte dimostrato di voler allungare il più possibile la vita utile dei suoi dispositivi tramite aggiornamenti del sistema operativo che arrivano anche ai modelli più vecchi.
Quali iPhone riceveranno iOS 14
Venendo alla lista, i dispositivi che saranno compatibili con iOS 14 saranno:
- nuova gamma iPhone 12,
- iPhone SE (2020),
- iPhone 11, iPhone 11 Pro, iPhone 11 Pro max,
- iPhone XS, iPhone XS max,
- iPhone XR,
- iPhone X,
- iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus,
- iPhone 7, iPhone 7 Plus,
- iPhone 6s, iPhone 6s Plus,
- iPhone SE (2016).
To these smartphones, the oldest of which is the iPhone 6 of 2014, we add the seventh generation of iPod touch, that is, the one presented in mid-2019
iOS 14: what’s new
On all these devices iOS 14 will mainly bring better performance and more efficient memory management and few real big news. The most visible, if it will be confirmed in the final version of the operating system, will be the widgets in the home screen. A feature that Android has been offering for several years, but that Apple could interpret in an original way.
A second novelty expected on iOS 14 concerns the presence of the translator integrated into the Safari address bar, also in this case a feature that has been present for quite a while in the Google ecosystem. Original, and very interesting, could instead be the feature “Clips” to try apps deemed unreliable before installing them. And this, instead, could be a feature that Google would do well to copy from Apple.