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TechSoftwareAppsYour iPhone or iPad might lose Netflix soon – here’s whyNetflix is dropping some supportWhen you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
Netflix is dropping some support
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Quick summaryNetflix has dropped support for iOS 16 with its latest app update.That means phones that can’t run iOS 17 or later aren’t supported anymore.
Netflix has dropped support for iOS 16 with its latest app update.That means phones that can’t run iOS 17 or later aren’t supported anymore.
Netflix has dropped support for iOS 16 with its latest app update.That means phones that can’t run iOS 17 or later aren’t supported anymore.
Netflix has dropped support for iOS 16 with its latest app update.
That means phones that can’t run iOS 17 or later aren’t supported anymore.
Opening the old version of that app on a phone runningiOS16 will now display a message: “We’ve updated the Netflix app! To use the latest version, install iOS 17 or later”. That doesn’t leave a huge amount of wriggle room.
This means that you either need to update your phone to iOS 17 or later, or face the prospect of an upgrade if you want to keep using Netflix, and it cuts off a few olderAppledevices that actually don’t have compatibility with the newer operating system software.
These include:
So, it’s obviously quite old hardware that’s affected, given that Apple typically allows phones to update to new iOS versions for around five years after they come out, if not slightly longer.
However, this will still be bad news for anyone running those older devices – especially in the case of theiPadmodels that can’t update. After all, while a super-old phone can be a bit obstructive in many cases, plenty of us keep older tablets around until they’re basically non-functional, so long as they can still stream movies and TV shows.
It would probably have been nice to get some warning from Netflix, admittedly, but this sort of software support ending can’t come as a huge surprise on phones that might have been released all the way back in 2017 at the earliest.
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