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CTOnews.com, April 5 (Xinhua)-- Apple services except iCloud will stop running on some older iOS, macOS, watchOS and tvOS systems from early May, affecting most of the systems released between late 2017 and early 2018, according to MacRumors.

Starting from early May, users will not be able to access any Apple services other than iCloud in the following software versions, as summarized as follows:

From iOS 11 to iOS 11.2.6

From macOS 10.13 to macOS 10.13.3

From watchOS 4 to watchOS 4.2.3

From tvOS 11 to tvOS 11.2.6

In an internal document, Apple said affected users may receive a push notification prompting them to update their devices to a new version of the software.

Apple did not explain why most of its services will stop supporting older versions of the system, but the move will affect only a small number of users. Apple said that as of mid-February, only 8 per cent of active iPhone were running iOS 14 or older.

Apple's services include Apple Music, Apple Arcade, Apple TV+, Apple Fitness+, Apple News+ and so on.

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