iOS 18 will not be available on all iPhones. Will your iPhone get the update soon? Or is it time to upgrade?
iOS 18: these iPhones will receive the next update
iOS 17 has only been available since September 18, but Apple continues to work on new versions. If you now have iOS 17 on your iPhone, you will receive updates for at least a year. We won’t know for sure which devices will receive iOS 18 until WWDC in June 2024. But these are the iPhones that will receive the update to iOS 18:
- iPhone 15 / 15 Plus and iPhone 15 Pro / 15 Pro Max (launch: 2023)
- iPhone 14 / 14 Plus / 14 Pro / 14 Pro Max (launch: 2022)
- iPhone SE 2022 (launch: 2022)
- iPhone 13 / 13 Mini / 13 Pro / 13 Pro Max (launch: 2021)
- iPhone 12 / 12 Mini / 12 Pro / 12 Pro Max (launch: 2020)
- iPhone SE 2020 (launch: 2020)
- iPhone 11 / 11 Pro / 11 Pro Max (launch: 2019)
- iPhone XR (launch: 2018)
- iPhone XS / XS Max (launch: 2018)
iPhone XR and iPhone XS (Max)
Apple typically updates most iPhones for about five or six years. The iPhone XR and iPhone XS (Max) are on the borderline in that respect. But since the neural engine of the built-in A12 chip is powerful enough for most AI functions of the current iOS versions, it is likely that these iPhones will receive the update to iOS 18.
In 2023, the iPhone 8 (Plus) and iPhone X will disappear from the support list. Both devices were launched in 2017 and therefore no longer received iOS 17. Apple has been updating these models for six years – just like the iPhone 7 (Plus) before it. Only the iPhone 6S (Plus) and the first iPhone SE have benefited from seven years of software updates.
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