Pokemon Go support for iPhone 5, 5C to end in February

11 Jan 2018

Steve Wright

Pokémon Go will soon drop support for iOS devices that aren’t running Apple’s iOS 11 operating system.

This means that iPhone 5 and 5C devices, or older, will no longer be capable of running the popular mobile title when support is removed on 28 February 2018.

Niantic explained the “is a result of improvements to Pokémon Go that push the application beyond the capabilities of the operating systems on such devices.”

The publisher advised that players keen to keep playing either upgrade their iPhone or switch to a supported Android device.

Pokémon Go is available now on iOS and Android.

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Steve's the owner and Editor-in-Chief of Stevivor.com, the country’s leading independent video games outlet. Steve arrived in Australia back in 2001 on what was meant to be a three-month working holiday before deciding to emigrate and, eventually, becoming a citizen.

Stevivor is a combination of ‘Steve’ and ‘Survivor’, which made more sense back in 2001 when Jeff Probst was up in Queensland. The site started as Steve’s travel blog before transitioning over into video games.

Aside from video games, Steve has interests in hockey and Star Trek, playing the former and helping to cover video games about the latter on TrekMovie.com. By day, Steve works as the communications manager of the peak body representing Victorians as they age.