- iOS 27 will reportedly stop supporting four iPhone models
- These include the iPhone 11, iPhone 11 Pro, iPhone 11 Pro Max, and iPhone SE (2020).
- iOS 27 will probably be announced on June 8, so we may know for sure then
While most Android manufacturers now commit to supporting their phones for a certain period of time, Apple doesn’t, so we never know exactly when a specific model will stop updating. But a new leak suggests that four iPhones that received iOS 26 will not be eligible for iOS 27.
This comes from leaker Momentary Digital, posting on Weibo (via 9to5Mac), who shared a full list of phones expected to run iOS 27. And it’s a long list, with everything from the iPhone 12 series onwards supposedly in line for the update, but in particular, that means the iPhone 11, iPhone 11 Pro, iPhone 11 Pro Max, and iPhone SE (2020) are excluded, even though they all run iOS 26.
If this information is correct, then it’s not very surprising, since these are all old phones: the iPhone 11 series will be seven years old when the iPhone 18 line launches in September, and the iPhone SE (2020) is only about seven months newer.
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two years in a row
However, this would mean that this is two years in a row that support for some iPhones has been reduced, as the iPhone XS line stopped receiving updates last year. This is notable because Apple doesn’t stop supporting phones every year.
So we’d take this claim with a pinch of salt, but it’s certainly credible and means that if you’ve been holding on to an iPhone 11 or iPhone SE (2020) model, it might be time to upgrade.
iOS 27 is expected to be unveiled at WWDC 2026 on June 8, so we could know for sure which phones will support it by then, although the finished software probably won’t be released until September.
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