{"id":67679,"date":"2014-06-03T00:37:24","date_gmt":"2014-06-02T22:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=67679"},"modified":"2025-07-02T00:39:31","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T07:39:31","slug":"iphone-4-wont-get-ios-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/iphone-4-wont-get-ios-8\/","title":{"rendered":"iPhone 4 won&#8217;t get iOS 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apple announced <a title=\"Everything you need to know about iOS 8\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/everything-you-need-to-know-about-ios-8\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">iOS 8<\/a>, the upcoming update to its mobile operating system. The company has a good history of supporting older devices but iPhone 4 users are out of luck this time.<\/p>\n<p>Although Apple didn&#8217;t announce a new iPhone today, iPhone 4 users will want to update to a newer iPhone for all the new iOS 8 features.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>original iPad<\/strong> and <strong>fourth generation iPod Touch<\/strong> join the iPhone 4 in not being able to run iOS 8.<\/p>\n<p>Want to check if your device will run iOS 8? Below is a complete list of compatible devices.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The iPhone 4s<\/li>\n<li>The iPhone 5<\/li>\n<li>The iPhone 5c<\/li>\n<li>The iPhone 5s<\/li>\n<li>The iPod Touch fifth generation<\/li>\n<li>The iPad 2<\/li>\n<li>The iPad with Retina Display<\/li>\n<li>The iPad Air,<\/li>\n<li>The iPad Mini<\/li>\n<li>The iPad Mini with Retina Display<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It&#8217;s surprising that a device as old as the iPad 2 will still be able to run iOS 8. Of course, expect some power hungry features to be disabled on slower devices.<\/p>\n<p>Find out everything you need to know about iOS 8 <a title=\"Everything you need to know about iOS 8\" href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/everything-you-need-to-know-about-ios-8\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Via: <a title=\"CNET\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cnet.com\/news\/apple-devices-that-arent-compatible-with-ios-8\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CNET<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Follow Lewis on Twitter <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lewisleong\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@lewisleong<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h4>RELATED STORIES<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/everything-you-need-to-know-about-ios-8\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Everything you need to know about iOS 8<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/messages-for-ios-8-supports-voice-and-video\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">iMessages for iOS 8 supports voice and video<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/apple-skewers-android-for-fragmentation\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Apple skewers Android for fragmentation<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple announced iOS 8, the upcoming update to its mobile operating system. The company has a good history of supporting older devices but iPhone 4 users are out of luck this time. Although Apple didn&#8217;t announce a new iPhone today, iPhone 4 users will want to update to a newer iPhone for all the new &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/iphone-4-wont-get-ios-8\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;iPhone 4 won&#8217;t get iOS 8&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2033,"featured_media":67681,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-67679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2033"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67679"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":330660,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67679\/revisions\/330660"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67679"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=67679"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=67679"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=67679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}