Now Apple must ensure iPhone updates

Samsung and Google promise seven years of mobile security updates.

Bound by law

Now Apple is following suit, but it's not going any further: the company has been revealed to be counting customers five years With security updates – disclosed by UK Product and Communications Security Infrastructure:

“As of 29 April 2024, the UK Product Safety and Telecommunications Infrastructure (PSTI) Regulation comes into effect. This regulation forces companies that manufacture, import or distribute Internet-enabled products in the UK to adhere to certain security requirements. There is therefore a Apple is forced to do this, and it is uncertain whether this would have happened if the new law in the country that left the European Union had not come into effect. However, it is worth noting that iPhones that are more than five years old receive new updates, but This is therefore provided for by law.

This means that the iPhone 15 series will be guaranteed security until September 22, 2028. We have no confirmation that this will apply in other countries, but we consider it unlikely that Apple will not guarantee this globally. It's very likely that Apple will use next Monday's WWDC conference to reveal the good news.