Nintendo has announced that its Nintendo Switch Online app for mobile phones and other devices will no longer be available on Apple operating systems for iOS 13 and earlier, according to the video game company starting this summer, citing the station’s climate. This upgrade is expected in the North, ie in the coming days.

Nintendo Switch Online can be said to be the cloud version of this company’s well-known console, as with this app and monthly subscriptions, you can log in to all of the brand’s games, learn about new updates and features, and save games through the account it opened in the payment service.

Today this application is available on both iOS and Android, for the latter for some time now operating version 6.0 is required to a minimum for the video game platform to work properly.

At the moment, Apple’s official app store, the App Store, indicates that the paid subscription game service is available for operating systems 12.0 and newer, and in the case of iPads, from version ipadOS 12.0. Although it is also still included for Ipods Touch with iOS 12.0 version.

However, Nintendo recently announced that from the middle of this year, its cloud gaming service for Apple devices will be updated to iOS 14 and beyond.

Based on the above, the Japanese company reveals that the app will be disabled from the iOS 13.0 operating environment and from there on the older one. He even explained it in detail in his statement.

However, the company has not yet announced the exact date when it will no longer have its mobile app gaming services on Apple’s aforementioned operating systems.

Similarly, no announcement has been made as to whether there will be any future changes to Android, so for now on devices like Samsung or Motorola, it will continue to work as usual.

It should be noted that this is not the first time Nintendo has recently updated its services on devices, as in August 2021 it has already made a modification that left the “Nintendo Switch” suitable for iOS 12.0 and Android version 6. .

This Japanese brand of video games has already made headlines when it announced that it will fight to deceive players through its new system that allows it to remotely detect changes in game codes as well as piracy, which has become so victimized.

This gaming platform and its upgrades are just a sign that the cloud is becoming more and more positioned as the center of new technologies and the functioning of the Internet, where in the future many services will be available only on the Internet, for which it is necessary. Wi-Fi and data service.

In addition to the above, the reality is that the internal memory of devices such as computers will go down in history because of web and mobile applications and cloud storage services such as Google Drive or DropBox.

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