Is the end of your iPhone near?

If you have an iPhone 13 or earlier, you are aware that you have a device that has been on the market for more than a year, but how much life does your iPhone really have left? In this post we are going to see the useful life of your device from a software and hardware point of view.

How much does the iPhone have left?

Is the end of your iPhone near

Like everything in this life, as the device gets older, it loses its ability to function and its benefits until it practically ceases to be even an inoperative device. The process of loss of capacity and benefits is the same in all devices, regardless of whether you have the PRO, SE model or the standard versions. Obviously, if the device has less features, the process will sharpen sooner, but the result will be the same. The reference model by age will be the iPhone 7, since it is the last device to stop receiving iOS updates.

Battery, the soul of the device

There are users who take very good care of the battery, with an annual degradation of 2-3% , and then there are other iPhone customers who degrade the battery around 5% each year because they do not charge correctly or do not use official equipment that causes an overheating of it.

Therefore, after 2-3 years, that is when the battery is quite degraded, but you can change the battery at any time, so it is a problem to solve even when the device is not officially sold in the Apple Store.

iOS updates

None of the users know for sure when Apple will stop giving updates to their mobile devices. It is true that Apple usually gives between 5-6 years of updates. Proof of this is that the iPhone X updates to iOS 16, while the iPhone 7 had 6 years of updates.

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The duration of support is a clear example of how Apple takes care of its devices down to the smallest detail. It could be concluded that the iPhone X will not receive the iOS 17 update, the iPhone XS, XR. XS Max, will not receive the update in 2024, that is, iOS 18 and so on.

Hardware end

The physical components of the iPhone such as the screen, camera, Face ID or the volume up and down buttons gradually degrade until they finally break. Depending on how you take care of the device, the external and internal components will last longer.

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If you do not put covers or protectors on it, a fall can cause the cameras and lenses to break. There are many few users who have taken good care of their device, has not presented a problem before it was 7 years old, being a device that is many years old. It does not have to be official Apple, there are high quality alternatives.

End of app updates

Despite the fact that your iPhone does not receive software updates, the device is fully functional despite the lack of battery and user experience. This means that if iPhone does not update to iOS 16, it does not mean that it stops working, in fact, it is very possible that it works correctly and you do not notice differences beyond the absence of iOS updates.

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An iPhone can stop receiving app updates 10-11 years after its launch, that is, the useful life of the applications is much longer than the support it receives for updates. For example, the iPhone 7 will stop receiving app updates in 2026.