To ensure the best possible security for Clash of Clans and your village, we made some changes to the account switching mechanics for the September 2014 update. If you want to load up a village that's different from the one you're already playing on your device, you now need iOS7, or a more recent version of iOS.

This means that if your Apple device is running iOS 6.x or lower, you will have to access the Settings app and update to iOS7 or higher if you want to switch to a different village. I understand this is an inconvenience, but security is of paramount importance to us, and unfortunately these improvements could not be added to older versions of iOS.

Fortunately, iOS7 is available on all Apple devices that Clash supports except iPhone 3GS and the first generation iPad. If your device is one of these two, you can still continue to play the village you have on it, but I'm afraid switching to a