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Apple reveals minimum software support period for the iPhone

Thanks to the UK's Product Security and Telecommunications Infrastructure (PSTI) regulation, Apple has Apple recently published the PSTI compliance statement for , which states the support period as a " ".  The PSTI regulation requires companies to state upfront the support period for the provision of security updates. Therefore, Apple is from the launch of the device.  Compared to its Android peers, Apple's software support period is . During t Google shared that it is offering to the OS, security and Feature Drops (software).  Samsung followed up earlier this year with where it pledged to support . That said, we must mention that for its phones. A recent example is , which received a security update in March 2024. The iPhone 6s was released in September 2015, which is almost 9 years ago. Source: via