Apple Says These Products Are Now Vintage

Apple today updated its vintage products list to add the 2018 Mac mini and the iPhone 6s, devices that will get more limited service and repairs now that they are considered vintage.

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The ‌iPhone‌ 6s initially launched in 2015, but Apple kept it around as a low-cost device until 2018, which is why it is only now being added to the vintage list. The ‌iPhone‌ 6s had Apple's A9 chip, and it was equipped with a strengthened aluminum chassis to fix the ‌iPhone‌ 6 "bendgate" design flaw. It was also the first ‌iPhone‌ with 3D Touch, and the last flagship ‌iPhone‌ with a headphone jack.

The 2018 ‌Mac mini‌ came out before Apple transitioned to Apple silicon, and it was actually the last ‌Mac mini‌ that had Intel chips inside. It was equipped with Intel's "Coffee Lake" chipset with 4-core and 6-core options, plus it had Intel UHD Graphics 630.

A device is considered "vintage" five years after it was last distributed for sale. For vintage products, Apple's retail stores and Apple Authorized Service Providers (AASPs) are still able to offer repairs, but only if the required parts are available.

At the seven year mark after a device's last date of sale, it is considered "obsolete." Apple Stores and AASPs generally do not repair products that are obsolete, and parts are no longer provided by Apple.

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Top Rated Comments

I7guy Avatar
5 weeks ago
RIP 6S. At the time it was awesome.
Score: 11 Votes (Like | Disagree)
wellander1 Avatar
5 weeks ago
The 2018 Mac mini was not replaced until 12 November 2020 then the M1 Mac mini came out so that seems wrong. It should be vintage in November in that case and it was not completely replaced until 17 January 2023 so that should start the 5 and 7 years.
Score: 7 Votes (Like | Disagree)
Andres Cantu Avatar
5 weeks ago
The 6s was such a great phone. The A9 chip was so much better than the A8 with much more speed, 2x RAM after 3 sequential years of just 1GB, and NVME flash. You could FEEL the difference between the 6 and 6s.
Score: 7 Votes (Like | Disagree)
dannyyankou Avatar
5 weeks ago

Agreed.

The 6S was a great phone, but it was dwarfed a year later by the iPhone 7, which felt so much snappier. The 6S fixed the disaster of the iPhone 6 though.
I think the iPhone 7 is one of their most underrated phones. It had a lot of “firsts” that are still in iPhones today. Telephoto lens, portrait photos, water and dust resistance, the Taptic Engine, stereo speakers. And of course, the removal of the headphone jack haha.
Score: 5 Votes (Like | Disagree)
DunedinD Avatar
5 weeks ago

The 2018 Mac mini was not replaced until 12 November 2020 then the M1 Mac mini came out so that seems wrong. It should be vintage in November in that case and it was not completely replaced until 17 January 2023 so that should start the 5 and 7 years.
Apple sold that Intel-powered Mac mini alongside the M1 version, until January 2023. :-/
Score: 5 Votes (Like | Disagree)
TehFalcon Avatar
5 weeks ago
Bring back 3D touch
Score: 5 Votes (Like | Disagree)