Owners of iPhones running on iOS 8 and earlier will soon lose the ability to use iCloud device backups, unless they update to iOS 9 or later.

Apple previously confirmed that iOS 18.2 will be released in December, and now a potential release date within the month has surfaced. We

OS 18.2 will add a host of new features aimed at improving how you interact with your iPhone, with a focus on usability and media management. This update

Apple has announced that it will soon stop supporting iCloud backups on iPhones running iOS 8 or older operating system models. The company, in an update on its support page wrote that starting December 18,

Starting next month, making a device backup over iCloud will require iOS 9 or later, Apple has informed some customers via email. New backups

Apple is about to start discontinuing and deleting iCloud backups for devices running iOS 8 and older, as a new support document outlines.