Whether you’re operating it for a nostalgic really feel otherwise you’ve held on to a tool for too lengthy, it’s time to say goodbye to the decade-old Android Gingerbread. Google is formally laying it to relaxation.

As of Sept. 27, the corporate will not permit gadgets operating the classic model of Android 2.3.7 or decrease to attach with Google companies, successfully slicing off each important a part of being an Android consumer. “If you sign into your device after September 27, you may get username or password errors when you try to use Google products and services like Gmail, YouTube, and Maps,” cautions the official community post.

If the machine you’re utilizing can replace to Android 3.0 and up, Google will immediate you to take action to proceed accessing Google apps and companies. And if you happen to can’t replace that exact machine with a more recent model of the working system, you’ll be able to try to log into your account by way of a cell browser.

Gingerbread is the seventh model of Android and arguably one of the crucial iconic within the platform’s historical past because it was the primary one to totally provoke an annual replace schedule. The model caught round for a stable 10 months, in comparison with the same old three that was the sample on the time. Google finally shifted its focus towards the tablet-only launch of Android 3.0 Honeycomb, and the following smartphone model was Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich.

Gingerbread launched a slew of options to Android we nonetheless depend on at the moment, just like the press-and-select methodology for copying and pasting. Gingerbread additionally enabled the power to modify between two cameras—a front- and rear-facing one—and assist for NFC, paving the best way for wi-fi funds. It even introduced us the primary Android Easter Egg, which turned a vital a part of the platform’s lore, significantly amongst its devoted customers.

Android as a cell working system has developed exponentially since that preliminary Gingerbread launch in December 2010. Google has completed a ton of labor to extract components of the OS to be extra shortly up to date. So far, this has proved a extra environment friendly solution to push out characteristic updates, and it’s resulted in additional parity amongst gadgets on the platform. But it didn’t begin this fashion, which is why some older variations are getting the cap.

As Ars Technica explains, shutting Gingerbread’s entry to Google apps and companies is a service to the remainder of the Android working system. Those older variations of Android don’t have entry to the newest security measures like two-factor authentication, which suggests they aren’t all that protected in at the moment’s world.

The tablet-only Android Honeycomb is the oldest model you should utilize now because it depends on a comparatively still-in-use choice to register to your Google account by way of the browser. Much like looking the web on a digital machine operating plug-ins from 1998, it would get more durable to step into the fantasy with an older Android machine with out the assistance of third-party software program. Anyway, lower than 0.2% of customers are on Gingerbread within the current day, so at the very least there received’t be a mass disruption as soon as the model formally shuffles off into the Great OS Graveyard.