With the launch of iOS 11, Apple shelved all mobile devices that were managed by a 64-bit processor, so that the iPhone 5 and iPhone 5c, latest models to incorporate a 32-bit processor they were left out of the update, with the iPhone 5s being the next device on the list to stop receiving updates.
With each new release of iOS, Apple adds new features, functions that, mainly for hardware reasons, are not available on all devices, although some of them are compatible, but we already know what there is. When everything seemed to indicate that the iPhone 5s would be the next terminal to stop receiving updates from Apple, a WebKit record affirms the opposite.
French website MacGeneration has discovered References to the iPhone 5s in the WebKit registry hinting that it will be compatible with iOS 12, the next version of iOS that will be officially presented next June at WWDC and where we will finally leave doubts, since Apple will announce all the devices that are compatible with this twelfth version of iOS, a version that according to a large number from rumors, it will not offer us important news, as Apple wants to focus on improving the overall performance of the system.
Apple released the iPhone 5s in September 2013Therefore, the life of this device would be 5 years, the usual term to which Apple is accustomed, although as new versions come out, the functions are not usually available in the older terminals. This terminal was the turning point that Apple was looking for, since it was not only the first (Apple) to implement a fingerprint sensor, but it was also the first to use a 64-bit processor, the A7, a This move was viewed with irony by Qualcomm, who soon after began manufacturing 64-bit processors for mobile devices.