After months of reports, rumors, and speculations, Apple has finally given us a glimpse of its next major mobile operating system version iOS 10 during its WWDC 2016 keynote. With the release of any major software version, Apple tends to bring as many users as possible onboard and just like iOS 9; the iOS 10 provides compatibility with the majority of the devices, both old and new.
In an ideal world, all the iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch models still circulating in the market would still be able to run iOS 10. But in reality, most of the older devices do have sufficient hardware to run the latest feature-rich operating system efficiently. That is why Apple has to drop the old crop of iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch lineup to provide best possible user-experience on its devices.
With iOS 10, Apple has had to drop the support for the following iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch devices:
- iPhone 4s
- iPad 3, iPad 2, iPad mini 1
- iPod touch 5g
Despite dropping support for these four devices, the list of iOS 10 compatible devices is still comprehensive. Without any further ado, here’s the complete list of iOS 10 compatible devices:
iOS 10 compatible iPhone models
- iPhone 6s Plus
- iPhone 6s
- iPhone 6 Plus
- iPhone 6
- iPhone SE
- iPhone 5s
- iPhone 5c
- iPhone 5
iOS 10 compatible iPad models
- 12.9-inch iPad Pro
- 9.7-inch iPad Pro
- iPad Air 2
- iPad Air
- iPad mini 4
- iPad mini 3
- iPad mini 2
- iPad 4
iOS 10 compatible iPod Touch models
- iPod touch 6g
If your device is listed among the iOS 10 compatible devices, then congratulations. You can follow our guide on how to install iOS 10 beta and enjoy Apple’s latest mobile operaing system on your device. Please note that beta releases are usually buggy, so it’s advised to not try it on your daily driver device.
Another thing, just because you device is compatible with iOS 10, does not necessarily means that All the new iOS 10 features will be available on your device as some of these new features are hardware specific making them exclusive to some devices.