{"id":273199,"date":"2018-08-24T17:12:52","date_gmt":"2018-08-24T15:12:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=273199"},"modified":"2018-08-24T17:14:33","modified_gmt":"2018-08-24T15:14:33","slug":"twitter-drops-support-for-ios-9-and-lower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/273199-twitter-drops-support-for-ios-9-and-lower.html","title":{"rendered":"Twitter drops support for iOS 9 and lower"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter announced it will no longer provide updates for iOS 9 and older operating systems.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement was made in the &#8220;What&#8217;s New&#8221; section of the Twitter app&#8217;s listing on <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/za\/app\/twitter\/id333903271\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">iTunes<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Devices on iOS 9 or older will no longer receive updates from Twitter. To get the latest feature updates, performance improvements, and bug fixes, please update to iOS 10+.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Other updates released in version 7.30 of the Twitter iOS app are accessibility improvements &#8211; including rotor support for links within Tweets, an improved VoiceOver experience for iOS 11 users, and improved Braille support.<\/p>\n<p>A report on <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2018\/08\/23\/twitter-ends-support-for-ios-9-and-lower\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TechCrunch<\/a><\/strong> about the change noted that the majority of Apple customers upgrade their devices when a new version of iOS is released.<\/p>\n<p>Data from Apple suggests that only 5% of its users are still on iOS 9 and older versions of its mobile operating system.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/272263-twitter-officially-kills-third-party-app-features.html\">Twitter officially kills third-party app features<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twitter announced it will no longer provide updates for iOS 9 and older systems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":144773,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[605,691,611,405],"class_list":["post-273199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-apple","tag-ios","tag-itunes","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273199"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273199"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":273203,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273199\/revisions\/273203"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}