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iOS 6
sixth major version of iOS / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
iOS 6 is the sixth major version of Apple's mobile operating system, iOS. It was released on September 19, 2012. The newest version of iOS 6 is iOS 6.1.6.
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Developer | Apple Inc. |
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OS family | iOS |
Source model | Closed, with open-source components |
Released to manufacturing | September 19, 2012; 11 years ago (2012-09-19) |
Latest release | 6.1.6 (10b500) / February 21, 2014; 10 years ago (2014-02-21)[1] |
Platforms | iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, iPhone 5, iPod Touch (4th generation), iPod Touch (5th generation), iPad 2, iPad (3rd generation), iPad (4th generation), iPad Mini (1st generation) |
Kernel type | Hybrid (XNU) |
License | Proprietary EULA except for open-source components |
Preceded by | iOS 5 |
Succeeded by | iOS 7 |
Official website | www |
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Until now, it is still running on about 11% of devices (the percentage including devices that are not supported)[2] besides iOS 7's 87% (including non-supported devices) and the last 2% (including non-supported devices) are for older iOS versions. The oldest iPhone that can run iOS 6 is the iPhone 3GS, which features a Samsung CPU and 256MB of memory.