Your 2018 iPhone XS Is Now a 'Vintage' Device: Here's What That Means
Things don't last forever, and in the tech world, they rarely even last five years. Apple lists older products on what it calls the vintage list, which consists of Apple products that the company stopped selling 5-7 years ago. And if you bought your iPhone in 2018, the iPhone XS, your phone is now officially vintage.
The iPhone XS launched in 2018 and was officially discontinued in 2020 once all of its stock ran out. The phone joins other recent additions to the list, including the iPhone 7 Plus, two iPhone 8 models, the iPhone XS Max, and the iPhone 6S Plus, all of which have been added to the list since the calendar flipped to 2025.
Now that it's there, the iPhone XS, along with the other iPhones listed abov,e will spend the next two years as a vintage device on Apple's roster. Once they hit the seven-year mark, these phones will be moved to the obsolete list. The most recent device to be added to be rendered obsolete by Apple is the 5th-generation iPad.
You have a vintage phone, what now?
The good news is that having a vintage phone doesn't mean much in the immediate short term, but it will before the end of the year.
Apple products continue to have repair support for up to five years after they leave store shelves, but can still be repaired after the five-year mark, provided that there are still parts available. That means that the iPhone XS and the other models listed are no longer officially supported, but repair techs can still order parts as long as Apple has them.
Such parts are likely in abundance since the phone just entered the vintage list. However, over the next two years, it'll become harder and harder for repair shops to find official parts for the iPhone XS. That means if your phone breaks next year, there is no guarantee that a repair shop will be able to find official parts to fix it.
In terms of software, it's much the same story. Apple is still releasing iOS 18 updates and will continue to do so until iOS 26 comes out. After that, Apple tends to stop supporting the prior generation of iOS. Since the iPhone XS is not included on the list of iOS 26-compatible devices, software support will mostly end later this year once the new version comes out.
Apple did this last year as well, with the final iOS 17 update releasing on Nov. 19, 2024. Apple typically guarantees support for devices for up to five years, and since the iPhone XS came out in 2018, it has long since surpassed the minimum.
Being put on the vintage list can be construed as a light warning from Apple that your phone will no longer be supported very soon. If you own an iPhone XS, you'll have software support until November when iOS 26 launches, and you'll have repair support as long as the parts hold out. You don't need a new phone today, but it's something you may want to look into sooner rather than later.
Try Our AI Features
Explore what Daily8 AI can do for you:
Comments
No comments yet...
Related Articles
Yahoo
8 minutes ago
- Yahoo
Stephen Miller's Wife Angrily Ordered Social Security Boss to Go Along With Musk's BS
Stephen Miller's wife berated the head of the Social Security Administration to promote a false claim about rampant fraud on the agency's customer service line that was being pushed by Elon Musk. Katie Miller, a former White House aide who later joined Musk's team full time, called then-acting SSA Commissioner Leland Dudek and bluntly told him to keep repeating that 40 percent of calls to the SSA were from scammers and fraudsters even though the claim had zero basis in fact. 'The number is 40 percent,' Miller told Dudek during an April 1 phone call, according to The New York Times. She insisted that Dudek stick to the figure, despite SSA staff writing a response to correct it, because Donald Trump believed Musk. 'Do not contradict the president,' she said. Katie Miller's loyalty to Musk is hardly surprising. She was reportedly with him 'almost all the time' while both were in the White House, according to The Wall Street Journal, just before Musk had a dramatic public falling-out with Trump. While officially serving as a 'special government employee,' Miller was also on Musk's payroll before exiting alongside him last month—sparking questions about where her true loyalties lay. The Times cited the false SSA scammer stat as yet another example of how Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) pushed misleading claims and fabricated data to justify its cost-cutting crusade. Frank Bisignano, who replaced Dudek as SSA commissioner, even provided some doublespeak by suggesting Musk's 40 percent figure was both inaccurate and true at the same time. 'We're going to be a fact-based, rule-based organization that can count,' Bisignano told the Times while acknowledging the 40 percent figure pushed by Musk was not true. However, in a follow-up statement, Bisignano said: 'The work that DOGE did was 100 percent accurate.' The Times suggests that Musk's 40 percent figure is a 'distortion of a completely different statistic' involving calls in which fraudsters tried to steal money by changing bank account information. In March, the SSA said 40 percent of Social Security direct deposit fraud is linked to people trying to change information over the phone. A number of MAGA figures, including Musk and Vice President JD Vance, twisted this figure to mean 40 percent of all calls to the SSA are fraudulent. SSA staff tried to amend this figure in an April 1 memo to DOGE leaders—the same day of Katie Miller's call—to state that 25 to 30 percent of allegations of direct deposit fraud are for direct deposit changes made over the telephone. According to an analysis by Nextgov/FCW, less than 1 percent of SSA calls show any potential signs of fraud. The SSA and the White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment from the Daily Beast. In a bizarre aside, the Times also reported that during his brief tenure atop the SSA between February and May, Dudek compared his role to that of Oskar Schindler, the German industrialist who saved more than 1,200 Jews during the Holocaust by employing them in his factories, as detailed in Steven Spielberg's 1993 film. 'Haven't they seen Schindler's List?' Dudek asked staff. 'Don't they know what's going on?'
Yahoo
13 minutes ago
- Yahoo
Insider interview with ex-Tesla manager reveals it could soon be 'game over' for Elon Musk's Tesla: 'I don't think that there's anything he can do'
A former Tesla general manager has turned heads with a shocking new interview in which he laid the struggling EV maker's troubles squarely at the feet of CEO Elon Musk. Once a five-year Tesla employee and still a Tesla owner, Matthew Labrot lost his job just days after founding the group Tesla Employees Against Elon, according to the Hard Reset Substack, which conducted an exclusive interview with Labrot. Futurism shined additional light on the story, highlighting how Labrot went as far as to say it's "game over" for Tesla under Musk. "It's time to say the quiet part out loud," Labrot originally wrote in an anonymous letter to other Tesla workers prior to being fired, per Hard Reset. "Let's be clear: we are not the problem. Our products are not the problem. Our engineering, service, and delivery teams are not the problem. The problem is demand. The problem is Elon." Despite being passionate about the company's mission to deliver electric vehicles to the world, Labrot said his concerns grew as Musk's public antics became more political and more controversial. "We noticed customers, return customers, shying away from us a little bit," Labrot told Hard Reset. "And that's when I started to see the things he was putting on Twitter and the political views he started to have." Labrot became increasingly disillusioned as Musk's politics aligned him with the very people, industries, and policies that were in direct opposition to Tesla's core mission as an electric-vehicle company. "The people that he was choosing to support were the exact people we had been fighting against while trying to accelerate sustainable energy," Labrot told Hard Reset. Data backs Labrot's observations about customer enthusiasm, with a huge drop in Tesla's sales coinciding with an increase in Musk's public-facing political activism. Year-over-year sales figures in Europe, a key market for electric vehicles, showed a staggering 49% drop in April, per CNBC. The decline came even as overall electric-vehicle sales increased by 34.1%. Globally, Tesla sales plunged 13% in the first quarter of 2025 as compared to the year prior, according to Yahoo! Finance. What do you think of Tesla and Elon Musk? Elon is the man Love the company; hate the CEO I'm not a fan of either I don't have an opinion Click your choice to see results and speak your mind. Tesla's slumping sales are bad news for consumers and the environment. In 2024, the Tesla Model Y outcompeted the Toyota Corolla to become the world's number-one-selling vehicle, according to Statista. Removing the world's best-selling vehicle from many consumers' list of viable options means fewer choices available and perhaps not purchasing the vehicle that otherwise would have been best for them and their families. As a result, some of these would-be Tesla customers could end up purchasing pollution-releasing, dirty-fuel-burning vehicles instead of an EV, further delaying the transition to a clean-energy future. Thankfully, people looking to purchase an electric vehicle have more options now than ever before. While the EV market more broadly continues to grow at a rapid rate, Labrot did not foresee such a rosy future for Tesla, once the industry's dominant player. Short of Musk completely departing the company and selling all his shares, Labrot didn't think there was much Tesla could do at this point to alter perceptions. "I don't think that there's anything he can do to change the people's opinion that have decided they're not going to support Tesla outside of him leaving," Labrot told Hard Reset. "I think for Tesla, as far as vehicle sales go, it's game over." Join our free newsletter for good news and useful tips, and don't miss this cool list of easy ways to help yourself while helping the planet.
Yahoo
14 minutes ago
- Yahoo
Yaskawa's $180M Move: New Headquarters Unveiled
Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers on Friday announced Yaskawa America Inc. will invest some $180 million to expand its footprint in the Badger State, including a new location for its North American headquarters that will create more than 700 new jobs. Most Read on IEN: Auto Giant Files for Bankruptcy, Blames Tariffs Ship Carrying 3,000 Vehicles Abandoned in Pacific Ocean Boeing Flight with More Than 240 Aboard Crashes after Takeoff PODCAST: EV Ship on Fire; Raccoon Problem at Airbus; Oreo Sues Aldi The company plans to expand its current facility in Franklin, Wisconsin, about 15 miles southwest of Milwaukee and a little more than 40 miles north of its current operations in Waukegan, Illinois. The project is expected to be completed in the next eight to 10 years. Yaskawa is consolidating its Illinois and Wisconsin facilities into a new 800,000-square-foot campus that will house its headquarters, training and lab facilities, packaging, and robotics and semiconductor production. According to the company, it is experiencing significant growth driven by its robotics, motion control, AC drives, and solar inverter businesses. According to Dennis Fitzgerald, VP of customer satisfaction at Yaskawa America, many employees at the Waukegan facility live in the northern part of Illinois, so their commute to the new location will likely be shorter. For those living a little further south, Yaskawa is looking for opportunities to relocate workers interested in a change of scenery. Given the project timeframe, which Fitzgerald said could be as short as six years, some associates will likely retire before the new headquarters comes online. However, the company wants as many workers as possible to join the new site in Franklin. Over the next six years, the majority of the manufacturing work in Franklin will be for Yaskawa's drives and motion products division. However, in the next 10 to 20 years, Fitzgerald says robotics will grow to a significant part of the company's Wisconsin operations. The robots will be shipped directly to customers or integrated into production lines at Yaskawa's Ohio facility. The Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation is supporting the project with up to $18 million in performance-based Enterprise Zone tax credits contingent upon the number of jobs created and the amount of capital investment. In 2023, Yaskawa paid some $20 million for a 200,000-square-foot building in Franklin. The facility was previously occupied by a packaging company, according to WPR. The company's global parent, Yaskawa Electric Corporation, has been in business for some 110 years, and the company has operated in the U.S. for nearly 60 years. Click here to subscribe to our daily newsletter featuring breaking manufacturing industry news. Sign in to access your portfolio
