Twitter drops support for iOS 9 and lower

[Newsfeed]

Twitter drops support for iOS 9 and lower

Twitter announced it will no longer provide updates for iOS 9 and older operating systems.

The announcement was made in the “What’s New” section of the Twitter app’s listing on iTunes.

 

[ToxicBunny]

Oh noes.. Sajunky will be most irate about this

 

[Johnatan56]

Oh no, they're cutting loose just over 5% of the entire iOS market share! Whatever would they do Sajunky? /s

 

[bwana]

Pity, but inevitable. I just dusted off an old Mini which is running iOS9.

 

[sajunky]

Oh noes.. Sajunky will be most irate about this

Wrong. sajunky was never using Twitter. Robots do.

 

[backstreetboy]

Just use the PWA version? Oh nevermind it's iOS...

 

[ToxicBunny]

Wrong. sajunky was never using Twitter. Robots do.

Lies... You love Twitter

 

[bwana]

Just use the PWA version? Oh nevermind it's iOS...

You really don't know much about iOS, or Apple in general, do you?

 

[ToxicBunny]

You really don't know much about iOS, or Apple in general, do you?

Why would he.... Sergei is his savior...

 

[backstreetboy]

You really don't know much about iOS, or Apple in general, do you?

I see iOS 11.3 supports it now. Took them long enough.

 

[kianm]

Just curious. Say one has an old device running iOS9 and they currently have Twitter installed (the latest version supported on iOS 9).
What happens when they factory reset their device, will they be able to re-install the iOS9 supported version or they basically get locked out as by that time the App Store only has a newer/latest unsupported version that requires iOS10+?

 

[sajunky]

Just curious. Say one has an old device running iOS9 and they currently have Twitter installed (the latest version supported on iOS 9).
What happens when they factory reset their device, will they be able to re-install the iOS9 supported version or they basically get locked out as by that time the App Store only has a newer/latest unsupported version that requires iOS10+?

It depends on your Apple ID. If you try a fresh purchase and download incompatible app it won't let you do it. Period.

The trick is to purchase the app on the compatible device or iTunes running on MAC or PC using the same Apple ID, you can interrupt download, no matter. Once your app is listed in the 'purchased' history, App Store will let you download the latest version compatible with your device. In most cases works that way, but developer may set a different download option. Some members refer it to "download from the cloud", but it is incorrect.

 

[SauRoNZA]

Oh no, they're cutting loose just over 5% of the entire iOS market share! Whatever would they do Sajunky? /s

Not really cutting them loose.

Just no longer updating for that platform.

I bet it will still work just fine for many years.

 

[SauRoNZA]

Just curious. Say one has an old device running iOS9 and they currently have Twitter installed (the latest version supported on iOS 9).
What happens when they factory reset their device, will they be able to re-install the iOS9 supported version or they basically get locked out as by that time the App Store only has a newer/latest unsupported version that requires iOS10+?

It will download the oldest version that was supported.