They will lose their most important functions, perhaps as early as May.
Sergey Kuzmenko, head of information security at the Center for Digital Expertise of Roskachestvo, said that iPhone smartphones with iOS 11 firmware will actually “turn into bricks” pretty soon.
It should be borne in mind that we are talking about extremely old phones that have not received updates for a long time. Smartphones that made it to this list are the iPhone 4, 4s, 5 and all previous models.
iPhone 5, iPhone 4/4s and earlier models will soon ‘turn into bricks’,
It is specified that the App Store application store, cloud services, linking to maps and other functions will stop working on these smartphones.
According to previous insider leaks, the shutdown of services should begin as early as May, although there has not yet been an official statement from Apple on this matter.
Reflashing outdated smartphones will not work, since the operating system is strictly tied to the model and hardware, and there is no way to put the new version on the old hardware.
