Apple adds iPhone 6 to list of vintage products

Eight years after the iPhone 6 launched in 2014, Apple has added the aged device to its list of vintage products.

The iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus were classified as vintage in February 2022, and now the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus meet the same fate.

When the iPhone 6s was launched, Apple continued to sell the iPhone 6 as its lower-cost offering. It finally stopped sales once the iPhone 7 was released in 2016.

The iPhone 6 line was the first time that Apple introduced the larger "Plus" variant to an iPhone. It also featured an all-new design with curved edges that replaced the older flat-edged design of the iPhone 4 through iPhone 5s.

Apple also launched Apple Pay alongside the iPhone 6, its secure payment system for storing credit and debit cards in the Wallet app that customers can use to purchase goods.

Apple considers one of its products as vintage when it stopped distributing them for sale more than five years and less than seven years ago.

The company provides service and parts for vintage products for up to seven years or as required by law.

Obsolete products are those that Apple stopped distributing for sale more than seven years ago — but since the iPhone 6 was sold until 2016, we're not quite there yet. All hardware service is stopped for obsolete products, except for certain Macs that can receive battery-only repairs.

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cpsro 15 Years · 3250 comments

About 2 years ago

And a fine vintage it is!

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Anilu_777 9 Years · 582 comments

Funny that the 6s was vintage before the 6.

DAalseth 7 Years · 3096 comments

I got a 6 and thought it was too big. “Like talking into a dinner plate” was what I said. Traded it for my partner’s 5C. It’s funny to think, now that I have an 11, that I ever thought the 6 was too big.

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FileMakerFeller 7 Years · 1561 comments

DAalseth said:

I got a 6 and thought it was too big. “Like talking into a dinner plate” was what I said. Traded it for my partner’s 5C. It’s funny to think, now that I have an 11, that I ever thought the 6 was too big.

I spent close to an hour in an Apple Store (about 20 minutes on each of three consecutive days) playing with the 6 and 6 Plus - holding each one, transferring it from hand to hand, putting it in various pockets and taking it out again, etc. I thought the Plus was perhaps too big, but it had the better camera system so I went with it anyway. It felt normal relatively quickly. Still got it in a drawer somewhere.

retrogusto 17 Years · 1144 comments

DAalseth said:

I got a 6 and thought it was too big. “Like talking into a dinner plate” was what I said. Traded it for my partner’s 5C. It’s funny to think, now that I have an 11, that I ever thought the 6 was too big.

It took me a while to get used to it too, but now I think of it as the high point of iPhone design. I ended up replacing it when I had a battery issue and the new battery was taking too long to arrive, but I later gave it to a friend who still uses it.