Many suspect that iOS 11, likely to be unveiled at WWDC on June 5th, will be 64-bit only. If all those 32-bit apps are going to stop working when iOS 11 ships in a few months, why let new users download them? This is also a final warning for app writers: move to 64-bit code now or you'll be left in the dust.

There are a number of potential advantages to moving all apps to 64-bit technology. You won't usually see much of a performance difference -- unless an app can benefit from 64-bit math (think encryption or media encoding), it'll probably run as quickly as before. Modern iOS devices don't have more than 4GB of RAM, so you wouldn't need support for extra memory. Rather, this is more about creating headroom and dropping the burdens of legacy tech. Apps won't demand quite so much space on your devices, and the hardware itself can ditch unnecessary 32-bit components in favor of making the 64-bit parts more powerful. Everyone will eventually benefit -- this is just one step toward that goal.