{"id":273152,"date":"2026-06-14T23:22:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T03:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/14\/how-long-do-owners-say-iphones-usually-last\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T01:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T05:00:09","slug":"how-long-do-owners-say-iphones-usually-last","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/14\/how-long-do-owners-say-iphones-usually-last\/","title":{"rendered":"How Long Do Owners Say iPhones Usually Last?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bgr.com\/2191634\/how-long-iphones-last-lifespan\/\">How Long Do Owners Say iPhones Usually Last?<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bgr.com\/2191634\/how-long-iphones-last-lifespan\/\">https:\/\/www.bgr.com\/2191634\/how-long-iphones-last-lifespan\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-14 23:22:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.bgr.com\">www.bgr.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    <span class=\"gallery-image-credit\">Evolf\/Shutterstock<\/span><\/p>\n<p>In the early days of the smartphone era, the iPhone upgrade cycle was somewhat predictable. Every two years, iPhone owners would trade in their old device and purchase a new model, often at a subsidized price through their wireless carrier. It feels like ancient history now, but there was a time when iPhone upgrades were routinely available for free, provided users signed up for a 2-year mobile carrier contract.<\/p>\n<p>At the time, the two-year upgrade cadence made perfect sense. Apple was releasing new hardware improvements and software features at a furious pace. Consequently, users who wanted to take advantage of Apple&#8217;s latest and greatest technologies had no choice but to upgrade. As a prime example, users who were interested in using Touch ID or Face ID had to upgrade to the iPhone 5s or iPhone X, respectively. Additionally, there was a time when older iPhone models noticeably got sluggish after a few years. Taken together, iPhone owners in the 2007-2012 era typically held onto their devices for about 2-3 years.\u00a0Over the last decade, though, the upgrade dynamic has changed considerably.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"\">iPhone users are holding onto their devices for longer than ever<\/h2>\n<p>                        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"gallery-image \" src=\"https:\/\/www.bgr.com\/img\/gallery\/how-long-do-owners-say-iphones-usually-last\/iphone-users-are-holding-onto-their-devices-for-longer-than-ever-1781115257.jpg\" data-slide-url=\"https:\/\/www.bgr.com\/2191634\/how-long-iphones-last-lifespan\/\" data-post-id=\"2191634\" data-slide-num=\"1\" data-slide-title=\"How Long Do Owners Say iPhones Usually Last?: iPhone users are holding onto their devices for longer than ever\" width=\"780\" height=\"438\" alt=\"Close-up of a woman using an iPhone 16\"\/><\/p>\n<p>            &#8230;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bgr.com\/2191634\/how-long-iphones-last-lifespan\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How Long Do Owners Say iPhones Usually Last? https:\/\/www.bgr.com\/2191634\/how-long-iphones-last-lifespan\/ Publish Date: 2026-06-14 23:22:00 Source Domain:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":273153,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.bgr.com\/img\/gallery\/how-long-do-owners-say-iphones-usually-last\/l-intro-1781115255.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[120],"tags":[124,80],"class_list":["post-273152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-iphone","tag-iphone-16","tag-iphone-17"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273152"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273152"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":273155,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273152\/revisions\/273155"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}