Pokémon GO To Lose Support For Android 5, Older iPhones And iOS Versions

Why even support it in the first place if they're going to stop doing it in a few years?

"But iOS 10 came out the same year as Pokémon GO", you may say. Exactly why dropping the support is so absurd.

I don't know who's to blame, but unless things change majorly, there's no way I'm buying Apple products myself. Ever.

@Yhdekskymmenen It coming out the same year as Pokémon go is exactly why they're dropping support. Those are just older systems and it's not always easy to keep supporting them.

Plus, it's a mobile game. The fact it's even being supported this long is already impressive. Some games don't even get support for a year.

That's a shame for many. Especially if they feel these new versions of iOS and Android come out too often. (This impacts the devs as well as the customers potentially)

My son played Pokemon Go on an iPhone 5S a little last summer, and he hated it. It "worked," but everything was slow. To this day he complains that the only reason he joined Team Blue instead of Yellow is because of that phone. But that phone was very old - I believe we bought that 6 or 7 years ago. I don't know how many people this will affect, but I doubt the number is very high. I don't blame Niantic at all for wanting to cut support for such old, unused devices.

That was a happy incident considering team yellow is seen as the noob team in GO.

They really ought to end support sooner, so they don't have the game running really poorly and crashing on people's phones.

At least on iOS this isn't to much to ask for.

I think the real problem here is that people are used to throwing away their perfectly functional devices after only a year, maybe two, of use.

I've had my work iPhone for three years, I've never played Pokémon Go on it but this piqued my interest in case I would want to do so...

Turns out it's actually an iPhone 7 so I'm unaffected.

This will only affect people who are too busy playing Pokémon Go to earn the money to buy a new phone...

Not really an issue. Most people swap their phones every 1 or 2 years

The iPhone 6 is weeks away from being 6 years/releases behind. The 5S a year older still. Think it’s more than reasonable to drop support now. To put it in perspective, between the original iPhone and now, the 5s and 6 are the mid way point in the history of iPhones, and when the 12 arrives they start to drop into the older half of the family.

It’s a shame as there will be some people with hand me down devices, but mobile techs advanced a lot in this time.

I remember when Pokemon Go would run fine on my cell phone. Now, i press a button and wait 1 minute for a response. (note: I've got Android 6.0.1)

Nothing like losing money spent because people like their current device.
No need to upgrade if the device itself works perfectly still.

I have an i-Phone 6s plus. Will I still be able to continue come the October update?
Edit 9/1/2020: I did some research on the matter and yes I'll still be able to keep on playing(provided I have downloaded & installed iOS 11).
Edit 9/2/2020: I am still unsure on the matter. So it seems I have to wait until October to find out if I can still keep playing or not.

My child plays on an iPhone 6s it works just fine. She will be very sad.

I play on an iPhone 6s. Hopefully it won’t affect me. I have never had any issues running the app with my device and I actually purchased the older iPhone here recently back in March because it was “cheaper” at $99 and because I had grown to hate my $800 Samsung that I got for Christmas. It’s sad because the 6s runs better than that Samsung model that is just over a year old.