Which iPhones Will Get iOS 28?

Will Your iPhone Get iOS 28?

Apple has not announced iOS 28, and nobody outside Apple knows which iPhones it will support. The list is published at WWDC in June, and this page switches to it that day.

What can be said now comes from Apple's own record — how many versions each chip generation has been given, and which ones it dropped last year. On that record, 18 of the 30 iPhones that run iOS 27 should get iOS 28, 4 are on the edge, and 8 are probably on their last version. Every model is below, with the reasoning.

Every iPhone and Its Chances

Newest first. Expected and Likely mean Apple's record leaves room for more versions; Possible is a coin toss; Unlikely and Very unlikely mean the model sits where Apple has drawn the line before. This is our assessment, not a leak — the models' own pages explain each call.

How Apple Decides

Apple drops iPhones by chip generation, and it does not say in advance which. What it has done is consistent enough to read.

For iOS 27 it dropped the iPhone XR, iPhone XS and XS Max — A12 Bionic hardware from 2018, after 8 major versions of iOS.

The oldest iPhone still supported is the iPhone 11 (A13 Bionic), from 2019. With iOS 27 it has now had 8 major versions — as many as the models Apple dropped last year. That is why it, and the models that share its chip, are the ones most at risk.

Two things move the line besides age: memory, since Apple's on-device intelligence features need more of it than older models have, and the chip's neural engine. A model can be on the supported list and still miss the headline features — which models get Apple Intelligence is a separate list.

Which iPhones Were Dropped From iOS 27

iPhone XR, iPhone XS and XS Max. They stayed on the previous version, which keeps receiving security fixes — and that is what to expect for any model iOS 28 leaves behind.

If Your iPhone Does Not Make the Cut

It keeps working, and it keeps getting security updates for the version it is on — Apple has patched the previous release for years after a model stopped receiving new ones. Apps keep supporting it for a while too, usually a year or two, because developers support the last two versions.

What it does not get is new features. If those matter, the release of iOS 28 in September is when the trade-in values of the dropped models fall, so the months before it are the better time to sell.

When Will Apple Announce iOS 28?

At WWDC, Apple's developer conference in early June. The keynote names the supported iPhones, the first developer beta ships the same afternoon, and the public release follows in September. Until then, iOS 27 is the current version.

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