
Many apps on the App Store will still run as normal. However, the iPhone 6 won’t be totally obsolete when Apple stops updating it. So, with that pattern, we can deduce that the last iOS 12 update will likely come this year.

Support for ended in 2017 for iOS for iOS 11. The iPhone 5s, which is almost eight years old, received the 12.5.1 update as well.Īpple hasn’t announced an end date to long-term support for iOS 12. Surprisingly, the iPhone 6 isn’t the oldest phone to receive these recent updates.

Its latest two updates added COVID-19 exposure notifications and bugfixes.

However, it’s been receiving periodic security updates since iOS 12 went to long-term support in September 2019. The most recent update for the iPhone 6 was 12.5.1.
