14 DAY TRIAL // Microsoft keeps improving Microsoft Teams on pretty much every single front, and most recently, the company has reportedly announced that it’s also making some changes to the iOS client.
More specifically, Microsoft Teams will no longer work on iOS 13, therefore requiring iOS 14 and newer going forward.
Needless to say, if you have an iPhone still running iOS 13, the current app installed on your device would continue to run, only that no further updates would be shipped. And of course, sooner or later you’d still want to update given Microsoft regularly brings new features to Microsoft Teams, so sticking with an older version means you’re missing out on quite a lot of goodies.
Furthermore, if you remove the existing Microsoft Teams installation from your iPhone, you will no longer be able to re-install the app from the App Store, as iOS 13 will no longer be supported.
iOS 15 coming next month
The switch will take place in October, and the timing makes perfect sense, as Apple is also getting ready to release a new iOS version, most likely in September.
As per Microsoft’s latest strategy, the company wants its apps to only support the two most recent stable versions of iOS, and in October, these will be iOS 14 and iOS 15.
The good news is that pretty much any device running iOS 13 should be able to update not only to iOS 14 but also to iOS 15. Apple hasn’t dropped support for any iPhone when rolling out the new iOS versions, so in theory, you can update to iOS 15 version when it launches next month, even though some older iPhones might actually not get the full experience due to hardware limitations.
iOS 15 is already in beta, so expect Teams to be updated with support for this version shortly after the official launch.