![]() ![]() Your iPhone can be set to update iOS automatically or manually. You can click through to determine what each OS update is meant to fix. So, how do you know if Apple supports your older iPhone? You can head over to Apple’s security log to see what version of iOS (or macOS or watchOS or iPadOS) is available for your device and when it was released. The upside? You can keep using devices for a really long time, as long as you don’t care about the newest, fanciest features or hardware upgrades. The downside for older phones: The further away they’re frozen from the latest version of iOS, the less likely it is that small bugs will get fixes, and the higher the potential security risk. ![]() Do you still need software and security updates for old iPhones? Those hanging onto an iPhone 5S, which came out in 2013, are frozen on iOS 12, but Apple released a security update (12.5.5) for these devices as recently as September 2021. ![]() That means that if you’re using an iPhone 6S from 2015, Apple supports iOS 15 (the latest version of iOS) for your device and will continue to push updates - including security fixes. ![]()
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