Apple have an excellent track record of providing backward compatibility with existing apps when new devices or versions of iOS are released. Apps are letter-boxed or zoomed to fit larger screen sizes. iOS will often behave like an earlier version to avoid breaking any assumptions that an older app might be making about its environment. Apple go to a lot of effort to try and make older apps function correctly on newer devices and iOS versions.
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