- iOS 27 will reportedly drop support for four iPhone models
- These include iPhone 11, iPhone 11 Pro, iPhone 11 Pro Max and iPhone SE (2020)
- iOS 27 will probably be announced on June 8, so we might find out for sure
While most Android manufacturers now commit to supporting their phones for a certain amount of time, Apple doesn’t, so we never know exactly when a specific model will stop being updated. But a new leak suggests that four iPhones that received iOS 26 will not be eligible for iOS 27.
This comes from the lovely Momentary Digital, who posted on Weibo (via 9to5Mac), who shared a full list of the phones they expect to get iOS 27. And it’s a long list, with everything from the iPhone 12 series onwards reportedly in line for the update – but that notably means the iPhone 11, iPhone 11 Pro, iPhone 20 Max, iPhone 11 Pro are excluded (excluded) iOS 26.
If this information is correct, then it’s not terribly surprising since these are all old phones – the iPhone 11 series will be seven years old when the iPhone 18 line launches in September, and the iPhone SE (2020) is only about seven months newer.
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Two years in a row
However, this would make it two years in a row that some iPhones have lost support since the iPhone XS line stopped getting updates last year. That’s notable because Apple doesn’t stop supporting phones every year.
So we’ll take this claim with a grain of salt, but it’s certainly believable and means that if you’ve been holding onto an iPhone 11 model or an iPhone SE (2020), it might be time to upgrade.
iOS 27 is expected to be unveiled at WWDC 2026 on June 8, so we’ll know for sure which phones will support it — though the finished software probably won’t launch until September.
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