US technology giant Apple has officially announced that the iPhone 6 is now an outdated product. By Apple's definition, a product is considered 'vintage' when it stopped distribution for sale more than 5 years and less than 7 years ago.

Apple still offers parts and repair services for products up to 7 years old. Interestingly, however, the larger iPhone 6 Plus was already seen as an outdated product before the iPhone 6.

This was because Apple continued to sell the 4.7-inch iPhone 6 for longer in some regions after completely shutting down production of the iPhone 6 Plus.

Both the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus were introduced with iOS 8 in September 2014. It was retired in 2019 with the release of iOS 13, which required a later version for devices to use.

Despite this, Apple continues to provide security patches for devices running iOS 12, which includes not only the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus, but also the iPhone 5s.