As Yahoo continuse its focus on search, communications and digital content, the company is shutting down a few of its services, including Yahoo Maps. According to Amotz Maimon, Chief Architect at Yahoo, the company will no longer support Yahoo Mail on the built-in Mail app for devices prior to iOS 5 on June 15, 2015. If you use iOS 4 & earlier, you can continue to use Yahoo Mail on their Safari mobile browser at mail.yahoo.com.

Similarly, starting June 15, 2015, yahoo will no longer support Yahoo Contacts syncing for devices prior to Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion. If you use Mac OS X 10.7 Lion & earlier, you can continue to access your Yahoo Contacts through Yahoo Mail on their web browser.

The Yahoo Maps site will close at the end of June. However, in the context of Yahoo search and on several other Yahoo properties including Flickr, Yahoo will continue to support maps.

For developers who use GeoPlanet and PlaceSpotter APIs, Yahoo is retiring these APIs in Q3. The functionality provided by these APIs are available today through Yahoo Query Language (YQL) and BOSS.

In the coming weeks, Yahoo will also shut down some of its regional, genre-specific media properties. The content from these sites will be redistributed across the Yahoo network.

In mid-June, Yahoo will close Yahoo Music in France and Canada as well as Yahoo Movies in Spain. The company will also close our Yahoo Philippines homepage and genre-specific media sites, and redirect to the Yahoo Singapore homepage.

At the end of June,Yahoo will close Yahoo TV in the UK, France, Germany, Spain, Italy and Canada as well as Yahoo Autos in the UK, France, Germany, Spain and Italy.

In early July, Yahoo Entertainment in Singapore will also close.

Last but not least, Pipes creation will not be supported as of Aug. 30 this year. Pipes infrastructure will run until Sept. 30, 2015 in read-only mode to help developers migrate their data.