Why isn't the iPod 5th generation iOS 10 supported?

You and your daughter should both be happy. The iPod touch 5th generation isn't supported because it has an A5 chip. If you would like to try out the new features for iOS 10, you need to buy an iPod touch 6th generation. Hope this helps.

They should've at least, update the Apple Music for iPod Touch 5th Gen as an Apple Music subscriber since its launch. I unsubscribe to Spotify for it. This really makes me so sad for my iPod.

Try downloading the new version of Apple music from the App store. If it doesn't work, then I suggest you buy the iPod touch 6th generation. Not only will you have the new version of Apple Music, but on the iPod touch 6th generation you will have lots of new features.

Apple Music is baked into iOS and iTunes, it isn't a separate app you can download.

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the answer to your question was provided by you in your original post:

,,,now I'm consulting on wether to buy new iPhone or...

I understand that Apple is saying it doesnt have enough oomph but the iPod touch 5 Generation was released not too long ago.

The iPod Touch 5th gen was introduced in 2012

It is 4 year old technology with specs similar to older iPad 2, 3 and iPad Mini which also do not support iOS 10.

The iPod Touch 6th has a an appreciable amount of recent technology that makes the iPod Touch 6th gen the closest any iPod Touch has come to matching the specs of its iPhone counterpart minus the phone!

Actually I does not because all the updates take the same amount of time. So there for the iOS 10 should be supported with 5th gen. Ipod. The 5th gen. Ipod has the same amount of storage as a Iphone 5-5se. What's the difference??

We are not taking about storage, we are talking about memory. The 5G iPod only has 512 MB of RAM/memory.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPod_Touch_(5th_generation)

The iPhone 5/SE has 1GB of RAM/memory

https://www.bustle.com/articles/148955-these-differences-between-the-iphone-se-i phone-5-are-key-if-youre-thinking-about-switching

What will the date be when iOS 10 comes out on the 5th generation iPod please an

Ah..never.

Did you read this entire post?

iPod Touch 5th gen is not up to specs for iOS 10.

It's even more underpowered than an iPad 2 which, also, will never get iOS 10!

Good Luck to you!

As many of the posters mentioned several times, the iPod touch (5th generation) has an A5 chip and 512 MB. It does not support iOS 10. There will never be a date for iOS 10 to come on older iOS devices. If you want to check out the iOS 10 features you need an iPod touch (6th generation). The 6th generation iPod touch has all the features closer to an iPhone 6 (without the phone function though). Hope this helps.

Unless you are on a tight budget, get an iPhone. I love my iPod 5, but it's not supported, because it has insufficient RAM (As many have said). I don't love that it's unsupported, but it still works fine for playing music and video. I use my iPhone primarily, though. I picked up my current iPod 5 about 6 months ago when it still ran the latest iOS for $50, which was an excellent deal... I figured it would be unsupported, but I didn't mind at such a good price.

If they did support it the iPod wouldn't be able to neatly process some good graphic games and ur iPod would probably crash or get erased

I was unhappy also when the iOS 10 was not available to the iPod touch 5th generation