visionOS 26 End of Life Date
visionOS 26 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.
visionOS 26 was released on September 15, 2025 and support ended on September 14, 2026 — a supported lifespan of 1 year, in line with the 1 year median for visionOS releases. The last patch it will ever receive is 26.6.1, published August 17, 2026 — 28 days before support ended. It has been without security patches for 10 days.
What does visionOS 26 end of life mean?
When visionOS 26 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 visionOS 26 past its EOL date creates a growing attack surface that a clean scan result does not rule out.
Migrate to visionOS 27 or implement compensating controls — network segmentation, enhanced monitoring, restricted access — while migration is underway.