Will iPhone 7 support iOS 16?
why can’t iPhone 7 get iOS 16
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ios 16 need please!
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You should have minimum 3 GB RAM to run IOS 16
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You need an iPhone 8 or higher model for iOS 16. Can you meet those qualifications?
Please send me the os 16 so I can test it out on my iPhone 7 please for a review
Is it possible to update the iPhone 7+ system to become system 8?
Update 7
chottu32 wrote:
ISO 16
iOS 16? With iPhone 8 or newer, yes. With an older-hardware device such as iPhone 7, no. No iOS 16 for iPhone 7.
Any new updates for an iPhone 7 will only have bug fixes or security patches. It will not include any new features.
gildo162 wrote:
Nova atualização muito boa
Automated translation (from Portuguese): "New update very good."
It's nice that you think that iOS 16 is "very good" – but it still won't run on an iPhone 7.
I thought I could just by a new iPhone 8 on eBay but they have all have iOS 16 on them! So iPhone 8 series is the only iPhone that can’t use live wallpaper on lock screen! They should have never allowed iPhone 8 to go past iOS 15! My wife has an iPhone 8 but thank God she never updated past 15.7 and she never will!
Bkice777 wrote:
I thought I could just by a new iPhone 8 on eBay but they have all have iOS 16 on them! So iPhone 8 series is the only iPhone that can’t use live wallpaper on lock screen! They should have never allowed iPhone 8 to go past iOS 15! My wife has an iPhone 8 but thank God she never updated past 15.7 and she never will!
Live Wallpaper is off-topic for the thread, but it doesn't look like this is an iPhone-8-specific thing. According to an article I found on the Web, no iPhone running iOS 16 or higher offers live wallpaper on the Lock Screen.
The reason is that Apple wanted to use long-press gestures to support another new feature (customizable Lock Screens). So to make those gestures available, live wallpapers on the Lock Screen had to get the axe.
https://www.makeuseof.com/why-apple-removed-live-wallpapers-ios-16/
Getting back to the topic of this thread, since no iPhone 7 can run iOS 16 or higher, this is not something that an iPhone 7 user would run into, until they replaced their iPhone 7 with a newer iPhone.
benvindo240 wrote: "I need new actualization for my IPhone"
benvindo ~ What model of iPhone is it?...
Settings > General > About > Model Name
And what version of iOS is it running?...
Settings > General > About > iOS Version
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Mohmedhamidx5 wrote: "I need to update my iPhone iOS update"
Mohmedhamidx5 ~ What model of iPhone is it?...
Settings > General > About > Model Name
And what version of iOS is it running?...
Settings > General > About > iOS Version
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Chopchop15 wrote:
Can an iPhone seven support IOS10
The iPhone 7 and 7 Plus originally shipped with iOS 10.0. If you find one that's still new in the box, sure, it would support iOS 10.0, as long as you didn't update it, or let it update itself.
If you're asking whether you can downgrade one from a later version of iOS to iOS 10, the answer is "No."
Chopchop15 wrote:
Can an iPhone seven support IOS10
The earliest iPhone 7 shipments did include iOS 10, but there's no way to get to iOS 10 now.
Not short of finding an iPhone 7 still running that, and resetting the iPhone 7 ownership will get you iOS 15.8.2.
lalu18 wrote:
when will next update
iOS 15.8.2 is current for iPhone 7.
We don’t know when (if?) the next iOS 15 update for iPhone 7 will be available.
iPhone 7 isn’t getting iOS 16, just as iPhone 8, and iPhone X aren’t getting the current iOS 17.
If you want or need an app that needs newer iOS, then you’ll need a newer or new iPhone.
Will iPhone 7 support iOS 16?