Unlike the Android competition supplied Apple has always been with software updates for a very long time by default. But the lifespan of an iPhone is not unlimited either. With the release of new iOS versions, the manufacturer repeatedly outsources the oldest devices and fails to support the latest operating system. In the case of iOS 19, which is expected to be in September 2025 together with the iPhone 17 So far, it appeared that all the currently supported models were spared from one way this year. In December 2024, a renowned insider had announcedthat all iPhones with iOS 18 the update to iOS 19 would also be preserved. Now the prediction of another, probably also quite accurate tipsters clouds this view.
Three models probably don’t get iOS 19
Like the website 9to5mac.com Referring to a reliable insider according to the report, some owners of older Apple cell phones have to look for a newer model this year if they want to stay up to date in terms of software. Accordingly, neither do that iPhone XR still that iPhone XS or that iPhone XS Max The jump to iOS 19. All three models come from 2018 and actually fall in the period when Apple usually refers to the second row. A complete end should not mean that, however, security updates are usually much longer at Apple. Only new features no longer get these cell phone models.
An iPad also falls out
According to the report, the air also becomes thinner for some iPad users. Accordingly, Apple begins with the retirement of the Basic model of the seventh generation. The tablet came onto the market in 2019 and has the A10 fusion chip under the hood. Here, too, there should still be security patches. It remains to be seen which of the insider forecasts is right. 9to5mac.com points out that both sources are considered reliable, but the author of the predictions made in December 2024 have been wrong with information on iOS support settings in the past. It would therefore be quite conceivable that the support now proved to be correct for iPhone XR and iPhone XS proves to be correct.
