When Will Iphone 5s Stop Updating

Apple may be gear up to innovate new models of iPhones, but Bill Hudgins has no interest.

He'due south got himself an iPhone 5S, the phone that Apple will stop supporting this month with software updates, issues fixes and the like.

He's in no blitz to become a new phone. "I'm happy with it," says the retired Nashville surface area writer. "Information technology works perfectly fine for me."

He'south non alone. When nosotros reached out on social media to hear from people who still use older, non-supported iPhones, nosotros were deluged from people all over the globe.

"The new phones are too big," says Anna Komok from Russia, who swears by her iPhone v with a iv-inch screen, which Apple stopped supporting last September. "I'yard a minor person."

More recent iPhones take 4.7-inch, 5.5-inch and 6.5-inch screens.

Anna Komok of Russia holds up her old iPhone 5S phone. She likes its smaller size.

Apple tree's latest operating system upgrade, iOS13, will be released on September nineteen, offer new tools for photo management and editing, a robocall eliminator tool and an updated Maps app, simply Komok and Hudgins won't be able to download it.

The software is available on phones dating dorsum to the 6S, which was first released in 2015. Before phones, like the iPhone half-dozen (2014), 5S (2013) and 5 (2012) aren't invited to the upgrade political party.

The older phones still operate but tin can't exist updated. "Substantially, you're on your own," notes security skilful Zak Doffman on Forbes.

"At that place is clearly skillful reason for such obsolescence," he notes. "Performance improvements drive the requirement for meliorate hardware."

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And new software, with tools like augmented reality, need the extra power of the more current phones to strut their stuff.

Lucas Cusick, a student at New York Academy, got a hand-me-downward 5S from his parents and says he doesn't have the coin to pay for a new device. The cheapest iPhone currently for auction is $449 for an iPhone vii, a phone start sold in 2016.

His 5S "nonetheless charges, yet connects to my headphones and works," he says. "Sometimes it's boring and laggy and freezes, but overall, not too bad."

In that location have been a few games he's tried to download that wouldn't work on his phone because he didn't have the latest iOS, "only I can honestly say that overall, I'm happy."

Even without the security updates, his telephone hasn't been hacked. Apple'south policy of discontinuing perfectly functional phones is only another example of "Apple trying to go more money out of you," he says.

C.J. Martinez, a Seattle based publicist, uses his 5S as a backup to the XR (offset released in 2018) because he loves the smaller size. "It'due south been slower," he admits. "But would I utilise information technology as my main telephone? Admittedly."

Many readers wondered about their iPhone SE. Fifty-fifty though the SE looks similar to the iPhone five and 5S and is an older model, it'due south withal being supported past software upgrades.

Since the iPhone 5S, Apple tree has introduced several new features that these consumers have missed out on, including the power to record videos in 4K high resolution, pay for goods with your phone using Apple Pay, image stabilization on your recorded videos and Live Photos, which adds a snippet of video to your photos.

Apple's iPhone gravy railroad train hit some speed bumps after the introduction of the 2018 lineup; and in early January, the company let investors know it wouldn't meet its estimates, as expected. The issue: Consumers began balking at the higher prices of the new phones, which range from $749 to $1,100 for starting prices.

CFRA Research now says iPhones sales volition be down 15% in 2019.