Sensor Tower recently conducted a study on the hypothesis that update iOS 's Apple could remove 32-bit support. This would essentially mean that nearly 200,000 apps from the App Store would become obsolete.
Specifically, Sensor Tower revealed that about 8% of all apps on the App Store will be affected by a potential removal of 32-bit support in iOS 11. This action is likely to become a reality if we take into account the message that recently appeared in the first beta version of iOS 10.3, warning that 32-bit apps will not be supported by future versions of iOS. It should be noted that in an earlier report, Apple warned that 32-bit apps could slow down a device.
However, the number of apps affected by this action could be higher since the study is based on apps submitted before September 2013 when the iPhone 5S was released and has not received any updates since then.
The iPhone 5s is the first iOS device to include a 64-bit processor, but later Apple required new apps to offer 64-bit support, and in June 2015 the company required app updates to support 64-bit.
So if Apple wanted to eliminate 32-bit apps, iOS 11 would be the best chance. The new iOS version is expected to be revealed during the Worldwide Developers Conference in June.
However, this is not the only threat facing iOS apps, as Apple recently began removing broken or outdated apps from the Store, resulting in a total of 47,300 apps being removed.
