What an Older, Security-Only Software Branch Still Gets From Apple

When a device ages off Apple’s current iOS, iPadOS or macOS branch, it does not necessarily stop receiving updates. Apple’s own security index shows a second kind of update, security-only, that keeps arriving on a fixed list of older devices and versions without ever bringing a new feature. iPadOS shares this pattern with iOS on…

Still Current, Still Patched or Neither: Apple's Three States of Software Support

Apple’s software support is not a single on-or-off switch. Reading Apple’s own security releases index shows three distinct states a device can occupy at any moment: still receiving the current operating system, still receiving security-only patches on an older branch, or appearing in neither list Apple currently publishes. Apple's iOS interface. iOS currently has two…

Apple's Education Store Eligibility: The Categories Apple Names, and the Products It Excludes

Apple’s Education Store opens to four groups that Apple names on its own terms and conditions: current and newly accepted higher-education students, parents buying on behalf of an eligible student, faculty and staff at higher-education institutions, and employees of K-12 institutions. Apple verifies eligibility through UNiDAYS for an online order, or in person at an…

The Training Apple Publishes About Its Houston Manufacturing Center

Apple’s new Advanced Manufacturing Center in Houston is not only where Apple says Mac mini production begins later this year. Apple has also published a specific description of free training it will offer through the site, and separate figures on how many people its related Detroit academy has already trained. Apple's supply chain and manufacturing…

What Apple's Supplier Code of Conduct Actually Requires

Apple publishes a single Supplier Code of Conduct and Supplier Responsibility Standards document that sets out what every company in its manufacturing network must meet, and Apple says it enforces that code through assessments that review more than 500 criteria. Both facts come directly from Apple’s own supplier responsibility material. Mac mini, one of the…

Apple's Water Numbers: 17 Billion Gallons Saved, and Three Different Scopes Behind It

Apple’s water figures, like its renewable-energy claims, split into layers rather than one number. A combined total covers Apple and its suppliers together. A narrower figure covers a specific certified subset of Apple’s own data centers. And a single figure covers one manufacturing process for one product. Apple’s April 2026 environmental progress report states all…

Apple's Renewable Energy Claims: Corporate Operations and Manufacturing Are Not the Same Number

Apple’s renewable-energy claims cover two different things, and the company’s own numbers keep them apart. One set of figures describes electricity Apple procures for its own operations. A second, larger set describes the manufacturing supply chain that builds its products, run through a separate program with its own suppliers. Apple’s April 2026 environmental progress report…