Attention Pokémon trainers who own an Apple terminal: Pokémon GO will stop working on all devices that are not compatible with iOS 11. This has been made known by Niantic, creators of the game, through the blog title official. And it is that the technological advances included in the title cannot be applied to previous versions of Apple's operating system. The drama of the situation is that not only will support be cut, but it will be impossible to access the game
Niantic has revealed that its plans to stop supporting Apple terminals that do not use iOS 11 will take place on February 28From then on, and through an update, Pokémon GO players who own an iPhone 5 or iPhone 5C, phones that cannot be updated to iOS 11, will not be able to access their accounts. That is, they will not be able to play or use their accumulated in-game currency and coins until they decide to switch devices. A measure that these users will not like very much.
The only explanations offered by Niantic is that "this change is the result of improvements in Pokémon GO that push the application beyond the capabilities of the operating systems on such devices", as clarified in the Blog. We understand that it is due to qualities such as the new Augmented Reality game mode, with which to interact with the Pokémon in a more natural way in the environment.A technology that requires the possibilities of iOS 11 and the power of the latest Apple processors. Logical in view of the technical section, but it will leave many users orphaned by one of the most important games of recent years.
Specifically, the devices that will be affected are:
- iPhone 5c 2013 A1456, A1507, A1516, A1529, A1532
- iPhone 5 2012 A1428, A1429, A1442
- iPad (4th generation) Late 2012 A1458, A1459, A1460
- iPad (3rd generation) Early 2012 A1416, A1430, A1403
- iPad mini (1st generation) Late 2012 A1432, A1454, A1455
- iPad 2 2011
Niantic only offers one solution to these users: change terminals. In this way they will be able to access their Pokémon GO accounts to be able to manage their Pokémon, their item bag and, most importantly: their coin account.And it is that some of these elements may have been purchased with real money Of course, the lack of support does not mean the deletion of all this data, but the lack access to them until it is done from a compatible device.
