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0 pointsalwillis3y ago0 comments

Apparently, the reason Apple dropped support for iPhone 7 is performance on the new lock screen.

It’s more likely the fact the iPhone 7 only has 2GB of RAM and two cores, not to mention missing the Neural Engine, the image processor and other features on Apple’s latest SoCs that iOS 16 requires for some of its features.

Most of major features of iOS 16 would have to be removed to run on an iPhone 7.

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Jtsummers3y ago

I was looking at that, the iPhone 8 (supported) has a 6-core CPU, 4 high efficiency cores, but also 2GB of RAM in the plain iPhone 8, 3GB in the Plus. So if it's anything, it'll be in the GPU or the 2 extra cores, that marks the critical differentiator for performance.

alwillisOP3y ago

But even the iPhone 8 doesn’t support all of the features of iOS 16:

* Live Text

* can’t send emojis in iMessage using Siri

* can’t ask Siri about apps

* offline Siri support for HomeKit, Intercom, Voicemail

* being able to smoothly switch between voice and typing when using dictation

* adding medications using the camera

* Door Detection in Magnifier

* Image search in more apps

fomine33y ago

Notably iPhone7 uses A10 that is last gen using PowerVR GPU