Apple’s support page listing vintage and obsolete products carries a printed update date of August 31, 2026. Apple publishes no changelog for that page, so nothing on it says which entries, if any, changed on that date, or on any date before it.
The page itself, at support.apple.com/en-us/102772, states two definitions and lists every current vintage and obsolete product by name. What it does not do anywhere is mark an entry as new. That absence is the actual story here: a reader trying to find out whether a specific device just crossed into vintage or obsolete status has no official way to check beyond comparing the list today against however they remember it looking before.
Key facts
| Item | What Apple’s page shows |
|---|---|
| Page | Vintage and obsolete products, support.apple.com/en-us/102772 |
| Last updated | August 31, 2026 |
| Vintage definition | Stopped distributing for sale more than 5 and less than 7 years ago |
| Obsolete definition | Stopped distributing for sale more than 7 years ago |
| Changelog published | None |
| Newest additions named | Not stated anywhere on the page |
Apple’s definitions, in its own words
Apple’s own wording is specific and worth quoting directly. On vintage: “Products are considered vintage when Apple stopped distributing them for sale more than 5 and less than 7 years ago.” On obsolete: “Products are considered obsolete when Apple stopped distributing them for sale more than 7 years ago.” Both definitions run from the date Apple stopped selling a product, not the date it was announced and not the date a successor arrived. Two products launched in the same year can cross into vintage on different dates if one stayed on sale longer than the other.
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What “last updated” does not tell you
A revised date on this page could mean one product moved onto the list, several did, an existing product aged out of vintage and into obsolete, an entry was corrected, or the page was simply reformatted. Apple’s page does not distinguish between any of these. The August 31, 2026 date is the only signal Apple gives that anything happened at all, and it carries no detail about what.
Why there is no changelog
Apple has never published a version history for this page, and nothing in Apple’s own documentation promises one going forward. Any outside list claiming to show exactly what was added in the August 31 revision is not something Apple itself published, and readers should treat a claim like that with real skepticism, whatever the source. The Mac Observer is not publishing such a list here, because Apple has not published one either.
What would have to change for a device to move
Because both definitions are time based, the population of eligible devices shifts continuously even though the page itself is only refreshed occasionally. A product becomes vintage once more than five years have passed since Apple stopped selling it, and becomes obsolete once more than seven years have passed. Apple stops selling different products on different dates throughout the year, so a device can cross one of those thresholds quietly, on a date nobody announced, long before the page’s own printed update date catches up to it.
What Apple has not said
Apple has not said what specifically changed in the August 31, 2026 revision. It has not published an earlier version of the page for comparison, has not said how often it revises the list, and has not committed to announcing changes when it does. As of Saturday, September 12, 2026, the page’s own timestamp still reads August 31, and nothing in Apple’s current product cycle, including iPhone 18 Pro pre-orders now open or iOS 27 arriving Monday, September 14, references the vintage and obsolete page at all.
