Apple Dropping Support for iCloud Backups on iPhones and iPads Running iOS 8 and Earlier

[strongy]

Forced upgrades. Its not iOS8, but iOS18. Users need to comply with the new terms and conditions, but they are not able to with iOS17.1.1. Apple says it needs to upgrade to iOS18, before the button works.

well that false information was easily debunked.

How to keep your devices and data backed up in iOS 8 or earlier - Apple Support

If you have an iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch with iOS 5 through iOS 8, learn how to keep your devices and data backed up.

support.apple.com

 

[strongy]

Maybe this will fix the disappearing Notes with icloud.

just turn sync notes of and on again they are still in iCloud

 

[jb310]

Terrible news for all the people still making cloud backups of their (checks) ... iPhone 4S???

 

[Lounge vibes 05]

Terrible news for all the people still making cloud backups of their (checks) ... iPhone 4S???

Which they can still update to iOS 9.
So really its only the 4 users stuck on iOS 7 and the 3GS users stuck on iOS 6.
The 3G never had any cloud back-up.

 

[ppenn]

Me over here still backing up through itunes

 

[hagjohn]

To all who scream money grab or planned obsolescence: your local to PC and Mac backups should continue to work…

Did you read the article? The article tells you why they are dropping it.

 

[colinhash]

iCloud backups were first supported in iOS 5 (not supported by the OG iPhone or iPhone 3G), and iPhone 4S supports up to iOS 9, so really it's only two iPhone models (iPhone 3GS and iPhone 4) and the original iPad that completely lose the ability to do iCloud backups.

I think that's fair! Pretty amazing it has worked for all those devices until now.

 

[t0rqx]

well that false information was easily debunked.

How to keep your devices and data backed up in iOS 8 or earlier - Apple Support

If you have an iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch with iOS 5 through iOS 8, learn how to keep your devices and data backed up.

support.apple.com

Read this article:

Apple Acknowledges iCloud Notes Disappearing and Explains How to Fix

Earlier this month, we reported about some iPhone users temporarily losing all of their notes in the Notes app after accepting Apple's updated...

www.macrumors.com

 

[ZebraDude]

my iPad 4 just breathed a whew!

 

[redheeler]

That's why it's a good idea to backup locally. Nothing lasts forever on cloud services and they can delete your data any time they want. Keep local backups of everything and keep them up-to-date.

 

[now i see it]

That’s so nice of them

 

[winxmac]

iCloud photos and videos can be downloaded manually but what about iCloud backup?

I never created an iCloud backup even when I used iPhone 4, 4s, 5, 5c, 5s but local backup gets automatically created when running iTunes [even though I set it not to do so]

It's been 9 years since iOS 8 stopped getting updates yet iOS 8 devices are still allowed to backup to iCloud which Apple changed to iOS 9 and later from 18th December 2024 onwards...

 

[ikramerica]

All 19 people are going to cry outrage that their 11+ year old devices can no longer backup to the 5GB of storage they never paid for

It lasted longer than MarioKart Wii and 8 access to online gameplay.

 

[strongy]

Read this article:

Apple Acknowledges iCloud Notes Disappearing and Explains How to Fix

Earlier this month, we reported about some iPhone users temporarily losing all of their notes in the Notes app after accepting Apple's updated...

www.macrumors.com

completely irrelevant to this thread

 

[DaveN]

Planned obsolescence strikes again

I’ll bet you said the same about horses and buggies.

 

[Macalicious2011]

Most banking or health apps don't even sign ios that old.

 

[Entilzha]

Forced upgrades. Its not iOS8, but iOS18. Users need to comply with the new terms and conditions, but they are not able to with iOS17.1.1. Apple says it needs to upgrade to iOS18, before the button works.

Tell me you didn’t read the article and are going off on an unrelated tangent without telling me you didn’t read the article and are going off on an unrelated tangent.

 

[klasma]

Well if anyone is still using a 4s on iOS 8 it’s pretty much useless here in the uk as most networks have turned off 3G lol

Some people keep them to play old 32-bit games.

 

[klasma]

you can't really say its planned obsolescence when the duration is 10 years or older lol, its pretty much just obsolete

My PC is older than that and still running flawlessly. Not to mention a significant number of other electronics appliances.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯

 

[klasma]

I can't image any third party apps still support as far back as iOS 8.

Apps don’t necessarily stop working just because time passes.

 

[klasma]

Maybe this will fix the disappearing Notes with icloud.

Maybe someone at Apple misread iOS 8 for Notes.

 

[Rychiar]

Some people keep them to play old 32-bit games.

god forbid iBeer doesn't work anymore lol

 

[scorpio vega]

I'm not impacted as I don't have any old devices like this still around, but I can't help but feel like this sort of stuff needs much better communication. Apple should give users at least a year's heads up especially since they're deleting backups for these users.

I mean probably less than a million ppl are actively using m iOS 8 or earlier. Especially since these phones likely don’t have 4g/5g so they can’t be used as phones or mobile tablets.

Hell, I am being generous. Most apps don’t work with iOS 8 or earlier lol. So it’s probably even less.

 

[B4U]

Well if anyone is still using a 4s on iOS 8 it’s pretty much useless here in the uk as most networks have turned off 3G lol

4S supports iOS 9 though? 😅

 

[LogicalApex]

I mean probably less than a million ppl are actively using m iOS 8 or earlier. Especially since these phones likely don’t have 4g/5g so they can’t be used as phones or mobile tablets.

Hell, I am being generous. Most apps don’t work with iOS 8 or earlier lol. So it’s probably even less.

Sure, there might only be 1 user still using this and who was still paying for that support since iCloud backups aren't free unless you can stay inside the extremely small 5GB tier. I would just expect that Apple would still give them users a decent heads up as courtesy. Especially since they aren't just nuking the support, but also the backups themselves. I think it would also be nice to give users a way to download the backup so they could restore it via iTunes or whatever locally in the future and they could be responsible for its storage going forward.

Stuff like this is why I don't trust anyone's cloud for my long term storage or backups.