YouTube Fans Warned App Will Stop Working On 7 Gadgets Including Some IPhones

YouTube fans warned app will stop working on 7 gadgets including some iPhones

Last updated: 2025/06/09 at 5:37 AM

News Room Published 9 June 2025

YOUTUBE’S app will soon stop working on a number of popular devices including some iPhone models.

The Google-owned platform has put out an update meaning selected older gadgets are no longer compatible.

iPhone 7 Plus among the models affectedCredit: Alamy

YouTube now requires a minimum of iOS 16 installed on iPhones instead of iOS 15, and iPadOS 16 on iPads.

More recent products are able to run iOS 16 and later so they’re unaffected.

But as with any software update, there is a cut off eventually.

There are seven Apple devices that are too old to run iOS 16 / iPadOS 16 so they can’t use the new YouTube app.

This includes the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus, which were released back in 2016.

See the full list below:

Most of these are already on Apple’s dreaded “vintage” list – and the iPad Air 2 is “obsolete”.

It’s likely more popular apps will follow the same trend as YouTube given that dated kit can no longer handle the tech improvements.

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However, affected users who wish to cling onto their current handset and still use YouTube have a back-up option.

They can still access the YouTube website via their iPhone web browser of course.

Apple defines iPhones and other products as vintage when sales were stopped more than five years ago but less than seven years ago.

After seven years, they become obsolete resulting in no hardware service at all.

Here is the full list of “vintage” iPhones as it now stands:

And these are the iPhones that are obsolete:

Image credit: Reuters

YouTube fans warned app will stop working on 7 gadgets including some iPhones