If you have an iPhone 5, update iOS now

Apple has just said that if users are using iPhone 5 need to quickly update iOS if you do not want to turn it into a brick.

Accordingly, Apple was so worried that the company was forced to send full-screen notifications and even posted a large note on its support website to remind iPhone owners that they would need to upgrade iOS to a minimum. especially version 10.3.4 before November 3. This is related to the GPS issue that appeared in April and was patched by Apple in July with the iOS update as mentioned above. Not only Apple but many other GPS-enabled devices have been affected by this problem.

Reportedly, the first GPS systems were recorded every week as a 10-digit number and deployed every 1,024 weeks (about 20 years) - a problem compared to the infamous Y2K bug. The problem was first addressed in August 1999 before smartphones and GPS systems had to be revised in April 2019. Although this happened in April, Apple said in July when it released a new update that the issue will not affect older devices until November 3, 2019.

According to Apple, the update will maintain accurate GPS location and allow users to continue using accurate date and time-based functions, including App Store, iCloud, email and web browsing.

In other words, if users don't update, all the useful features on iPhone 5 will be useless. Or at least users will have to update their iOS via computer, this is never interesting. Other devices, like iPhone 4S and iPad 2, will lose GPS capability.

Not too many people were affected by this when Apple reported only 9% of users still use the iOS version prior to iOS 12, while Apple killed iPhone 5 in September 2013 before classifying iPhone 5 as " classic ”in November 2018.