[StAnDeliver]

"Meanwhile, there have been reports signaling that Apple is soon to cut off support for some older iPhone and iPad models with the release of iOS 17 later this year. That includes the iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus, and iPhone X, as well as devices that debuted in 2017 and before, meaning they won’t get an update for iOS 17"

X on EOL life-support is a trial balloon, will be surprised if they go that far up in product. I mean, I just put 17.0's beta on an iPhone X last week...

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[Swordmaker]

X on EOL life-support is a trial balloon, will be surprised if they go that far up in product. I mean, I just put 17.0's beta on an iPhone X last week...

Unfortunately, it’s not a trial balloon. Both the iPhone 8 and the iPhone X shared announcements… with only a short differences between release dates for sale:

• iPhone 8 & 8 Plus Release Date – 22 September 2017
• iPhone X Release Date – 3 November 2017

Only 42 days separated the released to sale dates of these two phones. It used to be that Apple Deprecated iPhones at five years. So six years is pretty good.

The problem is that the technology in these phones is not capable of BEING upgraded to the newer iOS because they just do not have the hardware to take it. It ain’t there to take advantage of the upgrades the software has!

It is likely Apple will provide security upgrades for another two years post deprecation, as a friend just got a security upgrade for an iPhone 7 a short time ago. Just no performance enhancements. The iPhone 7 software support ended September 12, 2022… fully six years after it was released September 12, 2016.