Looks like our iOS 6 compatibility guide needs some updating. Apple has apparently unrestricted a couple features for iPhone 3GS users in iOS 6 Beta 3. You’ll now have VIP mailbox and Shared Photo Streams when iOS 6 is released…
Honestly it didn’t make much sense for Apple to forbid the 3GS from having these nice little features. In fact, there’s almost no reason to upgrade to iOS 6 otherwise. Most all of the features we’re marked with incompatibility when the iOS 6 beta was released.
Apple’s official iOS 6 page used to state the following:
– Shared Photo Streams requires iOS 6 on iPhone 4 or later or iPad 2 or later, or a Mac computer with OS X Mountain Lion. An up-to-date browser is required for accessing shared photo streams on the web.
– VIP list and VIP and Flagged smart mailboxes will be available on iPhone 4 or later and iPad 2 or later.
This has now been removed and iPhone 3GS users can now rejoice! To be quite honest with you, I’m surprised Apple is even supporting the iPhone 3GS at this point.
Source: MacRumors
