After just shy of 9 years, Apple has officially added the iPhone X to its Obsolete list, bringing to a close a unique chapter that changed iPhone forever.
The iPhone X, debuted in 2017 to mark 10 years of the iPhone, was the first iPhone to have an edge-to-edge 5.8-inch OLED display. It also ditched the physical Home Button, Touch ID and the top and bottom bezels in favor of an all-screen display, Face ID and swipe gestures, all powered by the A11 Bionic chip.
It was a huge gamble at the time, a risk for Apple that would end up paying off in the long-term. This design became the industry standard for smartphones, and almost every smartphone manufacturer out there would copy Apple's move, going all-screen in the process.
It wasn't the first smartphone out there to go all-screen, but Apple did make it mainstream with the release of the iPhone X, and would historically go on to shape how we use iPhones, and smartphones in general, today. All-screen became industry standard.
Now, it has officially headed into retirement, just shy of 9 years after it first debuted to the world. It has been officially added to Apple's Obsolete list, closing support for this device after nearly 9 years. Software-wise, that's 6 years of major OS support, and nearly 3 years of security updates. It was not eligible for iOS 17 at WWDC23.