About this data
Apple publishes per operating system version, not per device. Anyone wanting to know whether their iPad still gets updates has to dig through dozens of advisories and compare device lists. We invert that. Below is how, and where it stops.
Where the data comes from
The core comes from Apple's own security advisories. We fetch every advisory, read which devices each fixed vulnerability applied to, and keep the original page so it stays possible to check what it said. All of it is public and verifiable: Apple security releases.
We also use three other Apple pages, each for one thing. The compatibility lists per macOS version, because a macOS advisory names no device at all. The identification pages, for the model numbers printed on the back of the device. And for a handful of devices a press release, for the day it became available — where the year alone is not enough to fix the order. For every device we record per field where it came from and when we fetched it.
What we add
Apple writes device lists in free text: "iPhone 8 and later", "iPad Pro (all models)", "Apple Watch Series 6 and later". We expand those into concrete models and reverse the direction, producing a patch history per device. Where a line cannot be expanded with certainty we do not guess — it stays on the open list.
How the status is determined
Apple publishes no end-of-support date. So we look at behaviour instead: did this device get the most recent round that covered its product line? If yes, it is still getting updates. If no, it was skipped — and that is a signal, not proof. Apple serves older devices on a separate, slower branch and sometimes skips them without support having ended.
Where that threshold lies we measured, not chose. Across the full history, devices came back after one missed round (933 times), after two (240 times), and up to 21 missed rounds (5 times). Never beyond that. The longest recovery in time is 973 days: the iPad 6th generation was last patched on 29 May 2018 and got another update on 26 January 2021.
Only beyond 21 missed rounds or 973 days of silence do we say a device no longer gets updates. Below that it reads "possibly out of support", with the counter alongside.
For Macs it works differently, and more weakly. A macOS advisory names no device at all — it only says "Available for: macOS Tahoe". So we do not know that your Mac got a patch, but that a patch exists for the newest macOS it can run. Every Mac page says so. The threshold differs too: Apple serves exactly three macOS versions at a time and drops the fourth in one go, so there a year of silence counts as the end rather than 973 days.
What we do not know
- We do not parse advisories from before 2013. Apple wrote device lists then as a matrix of OS range and device, in a form we deliberately leave alone. It concerns devices long out of support; the relevant device pages say so.
- We know no end-of-support date. Apple does not publish one, so nowhere on this site is there a prediction. Once the EU product database EPREL provides it, an expected end date will appear — with its source.
- Searching by model number works for almost every device, but not all. For three first generations — the iPad, the iPod touch and the Apple Watch — Apple writes the model bare, without a generation. Then there is no way to say for certain which device a number belongs to, and we would rather give no answer than the wrong one. The part number (MQ6G3ZD/A) is not supported: it differs per country and is not printed on the device itself.
How complete it is
In the last run on 2026-09-28, 1,096 advisories were ingested covering 218 devices. They contained 16,452 device lists, of which 98.43% expanded unambiguously. The remaining 1.57% did not resolve — we do not guess those, they stay on the open list.
Right now 26 lines are open. These are phrasings we could not convert with certainty: a name we do not know, a list that can mean two things, or a typo by Apple itself.
What we store about visitors
No cookies and no third-party trackers. Visitor statistics run on our own server and keep no IP address, which is why there is no cookie banner. What we do keep: which page was viewed, which search term was typed, and whether it returned anything. That last one is our most important quality measure — without it we do not know which devices people look for and fail to find.
One thing that often goes unmentioned and belongs here: the web server keeps a technical log, as every web server does, and it contains the IP address of each request. That is needed to spot abuse and faults. It rotates automatically and disappears within days, and it is never linked to the visitor statistics.
If you send something through the form we store your message, the page you came from and the time. An email address only if you enter one, and only to be able to reply.
Found a mistake?
Please do. Derived work contains errors, and you see things we do not. There is a report form; name the device and what is wrong, ideally with the advisory that shows it.