Is the Apple iPhone 12 still supported?
✓ Yes, but barely — we estimate support ends in October 2027, about 16 months away. Plan its replacement now.
Time until support ends
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Our estimateOctober 2027
Source: endoflife.date (community-tracked) · verified 2026-06-10
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What happens when support ends
- 🔓 Security risk grows monthly. New vulnerabilities are discovered constantly; on an unsupported phone they are never fixed. Banking, payments, email, and password apps become progressively riskier.
- 📱 Apps drop off. Developers raise their minimum OS requirements over time — first you lose updates to apps, then the apps themselves.
- 💸 Resale value falls fast.The market prices support: once a phone leaves a manufacturer's update list, its used value drops sharply and keeps falling.
Safer alternatives
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Data sources & last verified: this phone's support window comes from documented update history (estimate — see our methodology), last verified 2026-06-10. How we compute end dates.