update iOS to run 32-bit apps

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These are user to user Apple product support communities.

We are all users here, just like you!

Apple supplies these forums for users to work out their product issues with other users, but these community forums ARE monitored/moderated by Apple Staff assigned to these community forums, but I do not think any info is ever passed on to who/mever the cognizant parties are who would need to know if there are any mounting issues with a product or software.

These ASC ONLY moderators and staffers, due to Apple privacy policies, do not forward any info contained/obtained from ANY of these communities to any cognizant Apple staff, teams or individuals.

The only way to get Apple to listen to you is to use their feedback portion of their website.

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Cognizant Apple employees read ALL feedback generated from all of the various feedback pages and transfers the data to the proper and responsible Apple teams and personnel , but NO Apple employees will ever respond with any type of direct, individual replies from the feedback you post.

FYI,

Apple IS correct.

It is the responsibility of every single app developer in the iOS App Store to re-code/re develope their apps for new iOS 11, which is ALL 64 bit code to support newer iDevices that use ONLY all 64 bit hardware, now.

This is NOT a concern/responsibility of Apple, at all!

Apple gave developers nearly two years to re-code their apps for 2017 introduction of iOS 11.

There maybe many reasons your non-working apps have not been upgraded to the new 64-bit code in iOS 11.

Things like app developers have simply abandoned/gave up on/orphaned their apps, didn't make enough money to continue supporting their apps, lone developers either sick or died from health reasons that meant they could no longer continue supporting their apps, etc.

You get the idea.

Good Luck to You!

You are not talking directly to Apple here. We are fellow Apple-product users. just like yourself. Apple representatives. may or may not, respond to posts.

I suggest that you submit your suggestion/concern directly to Apple here:Product Feedback- Apple

Microsoft does maintain backwards compatibility, at least for now. iOS also had dual capable up to the release of iOS 11. With OS X 10.14, OS X will follow that trend and no longer support 32-bit apps.

Just because MS does something (or Android) is hardly any basis for insisting Apple also do so. And MS is clearly confused about what 64-bit even really offers as they still impose hard-coded limits on their own 64-bit software instead of simply letting RAM limit file size. Their 64-bit versions of MS Office apps are not fully featured 64-bit capable as MS still ridiculously imposes hard coded limits on file size (which means owning nice 64-bit hardware with lots of RAM is pointless in Windows if you‘d like to work with very large excel files).

32 bit apps are so yesterday.

If you insist on using them then stick with the old hardware and operating system that supports them. Apple is moving on.

Also Apple is not Microsoft.

I would not want to run a less efficient, bloated mobile OS.

Burialfaith wrote:

Apple could simply be kind toward their users and allow them to still run 32-bit apps. As I said, windows 64-bit can run 32-bit apps, so why cant iOS do the same?

Because it would make iOS less effecient and more bloated.

Apple let iOS 10 be the last version of iOS that could either run 32 or 64 bit apps.

I am still running iOS 10.3.3 and have a little over 3 dozen apps that will not be compatible with iOS 11 and later and half of these are still apps I use everyday that really have no iOS 11 app substitute.

Just one of the many reasons I am still not using iOS 11.

I will have to make some serious decisions about continuing to use these older, orphaned apps when iOS 12 comes, as I think I will be making the move to iOS 12 when it becomes available in the Fall 2018.

Amen