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 recently begun notifying users about a crucial change that will occur next month, December.  The iPhone company is dropping the hammer on users running iOS 8 or older, letting them know that their iCloud backups will stop working or may even be deleted,

Apple is reportedly sending an email to iPhone and iPad owners according to which iCloud backups will be deleted on devices running iOS 8 or earlier.

Apple has revealed that it will stop supporting iCloud Backup on devices running iOS 8 or earlier starting on December 18, 2024.

Apple will end support for iCloud backups on devices running iOS 8 or earlier on December 18, 2024. Old iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch devices won't be able to create or access cloud backups after that point in time.

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.