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.

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 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,

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