tvOS 9 End of Life Date
tvOS 9 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.
tvOS 9 was released on October 29, 2015 and support ended on September 13, 2016 — a supported lifespan of 11 months, in line with the 1 year median for tvOS releases. The last patch it will ever receive is 9.2.2, published July 18, 2016 — 2 months before support ended. It has been without security patches for 10 years. 10 newer tvOS releases have shipped since.
What does tvOS 9 end of life mean?
When tvOS 9 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 tvOS 9 past its EOL date creates a growing attack surface that a clean scan result does not rule out.
Migrate to tvOS 27 or implement compensating controls — network segmentation, enhanced monitoring, restricted access — while migration is underway.