Check your iPhone NOW: Apple is cutting support for App Store, Siri and Maps on several smartphones

If you're the proud owner of a retro iPhone that's over 10 years old, you may soon be forced to splash out on an upgrade. That's because Apple is cutting support for several online services, like the App Store, Siri and Maps, on devices running an operating system from iOS 11 to iOS 11.2.6. So if you own a handset which can't upgrade to iOS 11.3 at the very least, it will be rendered largely defunct from May 2023. Although Apple is known to stop providing bug and security updates to older operating systems, this will mark the first time it has actively reduced their functionality. Currently, any iPhone running a version of iOS 11 can update to at least iOS 12.5.4,