RIP Chris Evans’ iPhone 6S

I believe most of us right here at The Verge can agree that if we have been well-known celebrities who acted in some of the highest-grossing films of all time, we’d all the time be rocking the most recent and best tech. That’s apparently not how Chris Evans, star of Lightyear and The Avengers, rolls — on June twenty third, 2022, he posted a message on Twitter and Instagram that he’s lastly upgrading his cellphone: “RIP iPhone 6S,” he mentioned. “We had a good run.”

In his posts, Evan says that he’ll miss the 2015 machine’s house button — a photograph he posted reveals that he’s upgrading what seems to be an iPhone 13 Pro — however not the truth that it was a “nightly battle” attempting to get the 6S to cost. (In the feedback of Evan’s Instagram publish, Hidden Figures and Onward actress Octavia Spencer says that she too simply switched to a cellphone with no house button.) He additionally mentions that he gained’t miss the grainy footage from the 6S’s 12-megapixel digicam — you’ll be able to see examples of these all over his Instagram page.

To be clear, this publish is completely not shaming Evans for having an outdated cellphone — in reality, I’d argue that the 6S is the most effective cellphone that Apple ever made, with its good hold-ability, headphone jack, and second-gen Touch ID. I’ve bought nothing however respect for Evans for persevering with to make use of it. It was, nonetheless, most likely time to improve; Apple not too long ago introduced that the following model of iOS gained’t help the 6S, which has saved getting software program updates for seven years. Plus, the 6S didn’t have wi-fi charging, which signifies that when the Lightning port begins to wear down, you’re straight out of luck.

Thankfully, Evans’ new cellphone nearly definitely does help wi-fi charging. Maybe he could make this one final even longer.

PS: I discover it very humorous Evans starred in an Apple TV show in 2020 but nonetheless continued to make use of the 6S afterward. Ted Lasso star Jason Sudeikis has mentioned that Apple gave him a pair of AirPods Max for free; I’m nearly sure Evans might’ve finessed an iPhone XR or SE if he had actually wished to. Talk about loyalty.

PPS: Spoiler alert, however do not forget that time Chris Evans had to make use of an Android cellphone in Knives Out as a result of Apple allegedly wouldn’t let the movie’s villain use an iPhone? Hilarious.

Correction June twenty fourth, 1:47PM ET: The unique model of this text mentioned that Evans’ publish was from June twenty fifth. It was really from the twenty third. We remorse the error.