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Cake day: October 18th, 2023

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  • While there’s nothing official from Apple, 7+ years is a decent bet. That’s because:

    • Historically (and this is absolutely not guaranteed), Apple has provided iOS upgrades (new features) for a period of 6ish years, plus iOS security updates/fixes (no new features) for an additional 1-2ish years. See here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPhone

    • By California law, Apple must be able to repair an iPhone for a period of seven (7) years. Note that this says nothing about the repair cost which could be $$$$$. It also applies to California only, although I expect Apple will do this over a larger area.

    However, in order to last 7 or so years, maintenance such as battery replacements must be periodically done (and most people here seem to be allergic to that). Having Apple do the battery replacement is recommended as some random repair shop might not use the best batteries.





  • If you’re talking about iMessage messages and not google voice messages, the paid ($$$) iMazing program for the PC or Mac can save entire iMessage conversations to a PDF. However, it only puts maybe 15-20 messages on a page (less if you have pictures), and that can result in a long PDF file. I once saved a big thread just to see if iMazing could handle it (it could and did), and I ended up with over 650 pages in the PDF file.