Apple device is now OBSOLETE - and it will leave users without any support if something goes wrong

Although Apple releases respective devices to feverish fanfare every year, adjacent much are softly consigned to the exertion scrap heap. 

And 2024 is nary different, arsenic the multi-trillion-dollar institution has softly added respective fashionable devices to its dreaded obsolete products list. 

It means users worldwide are without immoderate enactment if thing goes incorrect with their device. 

These overmuch loved gadgets, released not adjacent a decennary ago, fto users perceive to euphony connected the mode the old-fashioned mode – without streaming apps.

So, bash you inactive ain one? 

First noticed by MacRumours, the products added to the database are its past ever iPod Nano and iPod Shuffle models, arsenic good as the iPhone 6.

The tech elephantine sold respective generations of the iPod Nano and iPod Shuffle betwixt 2005 and 2015.

iPod Nano was marketed arsenic the mid-range exemplary successful the iPod family, portion the small iPod Shuffle was celebrated for coming without a screen. 

But the ones conscionable added to the obsolete merchandise list are the last models it ever released, backmost successful 2015. 

They are the £129 iPod Nano 7th procreation successful six colours – gold, silver, blue, pink, abstraction grey and Product Red –and the £49 iPod Shuffle 4th procreation successful six colours – blue, pink, silver, gold, abstraction grey, and Product Red. 

Back successful 2017, Apple discontinued the iPod Nano and iPod Shuffle, meaning it was nary longer selling them.

But present the devices person mislaid support, which means successful the longer eligible for repair astatine an Apple Store oregon an authorized third-party work provider. 

Essentially it means if the merchandise stops moving Apple is not obliged to hole it – rendering it hardly much than a relic from the past. 

Apple has besides added the iPhone 6 modular exemplary to the list, having already made the larger iPhone 6 Plus obsolete backmost successful April.

iPhone 6 is somewhat older, having been released backmost successful 2014 – though immoderate accidental a beingness of little than a decennary isn't tenable for a tech device. 

Tech companies including Apple have faced fierce criticism for fuelling an 'e-waste crisis', wherever piles of physics discarded are gathering up successful landfill. 

After a instrumentality is discarded and e-waste is warmed up, toxic chemicals are released into the aerial damaging the atmosphere.

E-waste successful landfills tin besides seep toxic materials seep into groundwater, affecting animals and plants.

According to Apple, it considers its products obsolete erstwhile it stopped distributing them for merchantability much than 7 years ago.

iPhone 7, iPhone 8, iPhone X, IPhone 11, iPhone 12 and iPhone 13 person each been discontinued successful caller years.

So it's conscionable a substance of clip earlier these erstwhile fashionable devices – each retailing £500 oregon much astatine clip of merchandise – are made obsolete too. 

MailOnline has contacted Apple for comment.