iPadOS 13 End of Life Date
iPadOS 13 end-of-life date, support status, and CVE risk. Data reconciled from official vendor documentation and endoflife.date at every build; the source of each date is on the product page.
iPadOS 13 was released on September 24, 2019 and support ended on September 16, 2020 — a supported lifespan of 1 year, in line with the 1 year median for iPadOS releases. The last patch it will ever receive is 13.6, published July 15, 2020 — 2 months before support ended. It has been without security patches for 6 years. 6 newer iPadOS releases have shipped since.
What does iPadOS 13 end of life mean?
When iPadOS 13 reaches end of life, the maintainers stop issuing security patches for this version. CVEs discovered after the EOL date are publicly disclosed on the National Vulnerability Database with no patch available. Exploit code frequently appears on GitHub within days of disclosure.
The CVE blind spot: A CVE-based scan does not show the ongoing accumulation of unpatched vulnerabilities in EOL software versions. Some scanners flag unsupported versions of common products, but coverage varies, and none of them give you the date in advance. Running iPadOS 13 past its EOL date creates a growing attack surface that a clean scan result does not rule out.
Migrate to iPadOS 27 or implement compensating controls — network segmentation, enhanced monitoring, restricted access — while migration is underway.