{"id":303672,"date":"2025-05-22T00:55:52","date_gmt":"2025-05-22T07:55:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/?p=303672"},"modified":"2025-07-01T14:36:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T21:36:09","slug":"these-two-iphones-are-now-vintage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/these-two-iphones-are-now-vintage\/","title":{"rendered":"These two iPhones are now vintage"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Apple has quietly updated its list of vintage and obsolete products, a routine move that nonetheless carries&nbsp;<strong>important consequences for owners of older devices<\/strong>. This time, two well-known iPhone models have reached vintage status, meaning they\u2019re one step closer to losing all official repair support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">iPhone 7 Plus and iPhone 8 (64GB\/256GB) join the vintage list<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The iPhone 7 Plus and certain iPhone 8 models have now been classified as vintage<\/strong>, marking the end of a repair guarantee window for these devices. In Apple&#8217;s terms, a product becomes vintage once it hasn\u2019t been sold for more than five but less than seven years. After that,&nbsp;<strong>part availability is no longer guaranteed<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This change affects&nbsp;<em>all<\/em>&nbsp;iPhone 7 Plus units and&nbsp;<strong>only the 64GB and 256GB versions of the iPhone 8<\/strong>, as well as specific PRODUCT(RED) editions. Interestingly, the 128GB iPhone 8 and other color variants of the iPhone 8 Plus remain outside the vintage list\u2014for now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">iPad Air 2 and iPad mini 2 become obsolete<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Alongside the iPhone updates,&nbsp;<strong>Apple has moved the iPad Air 2 and iPad mini 2 to the obsolete category<\/strong>, which means official repair services for these tablets are no longer available. This applies globally and includes both Apple Stores and Authorized Service Providers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Devices on the obsolete list have surpassed the seven-year mark since their last sale. At this point,&nbsp;<strong>Apple completely halts all hardware support<\/strong>, making repairs possible only through third parties\u2014often at a higher cost or with non-original parts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What this means for users<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While vintage status doesn\u2019t instantly disable support,&nbsp;<strong>users should prepare for increasingly limited repair options<\/strong>. For those still using these models, it may be time to consider an upgrade before full obsolescence hits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple has quietly updated its list of vintage and obsolete products, a routine move that nonetheless carries&nbsp;important consequences for owners of older devices. This time, two well-known iPhone models have reached vintage status, meaning they\u2019re one step closer to losing all official repair support. iPhone 7 Plus and iPhone 8 (64GB\/256GB) join the vintage list &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/these-two-iphones-are-now-vintage\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;These two iPhones are now vintage&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9317,"featured_media":303673,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-303672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303672"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":303674,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303672\/revisions\/303674"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303672"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=303672"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=303672"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=303672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}