Windows 11 banned from installing on smartphones

Microsoft has limited the installation of Windows 11 on smartphones. This was reported by XDA.

Media journalists noticed that in the future Windows 11 24H2 update, a ban on installing the operating system on smartphones is expected. The authors explained that the update does not support older devices based on ARM processors, which include gadgets based on Windows Phone.

“Devices such as the Lumia 950 and Lumia 950 XL will no longer be able to work with new releases of Windows 11,” the journalists noted. According to them, Microsoft never adapted Windows 11 for smartphones on the Windows Phone platform, but enthusiasts could still install the system on devices. This loophole will be closed in update 24H2.

Experts said that older smartphones run on ARM 8.0. The future OS will only work with processors that support ARM 8.1 and higher. Also, 24H2 is not adapted to work with some ARM processors, that is, the system cannot be installed on some laptops.

Windows Phone, which was later renamed Windows 10 Mobile, was released on October 11, 2010. In January 2018, Mirosoft announced that they would not support the platform.

At the beginning of April, the functions that the major Windows 11 24H2 update expected in the fall became known. First of all, the system will be released with an updated Copilot and Notepad editor with AI.