iPhone 3G End of Life Date
iPhone 3G 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.
iPhone 3g was released on July 11, 2008 and support ended on March 3, 2011 — a supported lifespan of 2 years and 8 months, shorter than the 7 years and 7 months median for iPhone releases. It has been without security patches for 15 years and 7 months. 48 newer iPhone releases have shipped since.
What does iPhone 3G end of life mean?
When iPhone 3G 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 iPhone 3G past its EOL date creates a growing attack surface that a clean scan result does not rule out.
Migrate to iPhone 17e or implement compensating controls — network segmentation, enhanced monitoring, restricted access — while migration is underway.