Apple's latest version of iOS is coming to the shortest list of iPhones in recent memory

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Apple's head of software, Craig Federighi, unveils iOS 13 at WWDC 2019.

• Apple announced the upcoming version of its iPhone operating system, iOS 13, on Monday during WWDC.
• iOS 13 comes with several updates, improvements, and new features.
• The list of iPhones getting iOS 13 is the shortest in recent memory - previous versions of iOS were supported on more iPhone generations.
• Currently, iOS 13 will only work on the iPhone XS back to the iPhone 7.
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Apple announced the latest version of its iPhone operating system on Monday during its WWDC event. It's called iOS 13, and it's coming in the fall of 2019.

iOS 13 is set to come with a bunch of new features and improvements, like dark mode, a better Photos app, signing into apps and services securely with Sign in with Apple, an improved Apple Maps, and Siri with a more natural voice, among many other upcoming features.

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Sadly, but typically, iOS 13 isn't coming to some older iPhones. In fact, the iOS 13 iPhone support list is the shortest in recent memory. Last year's iOS 12 was made available from the iPhone X - and most recently to the iPhone XS - all the way down to the iPhone iPhone 5s, including the iPhone SE. That's six generations of iPhones.

For iOS 13, Apple is making it available for four generations of iPhones.

Here are all the iPhones that will get iOS 13 and all its features: