iPhone SE (2020) My iPhone 7 (SE) just updated to iOS 16.1.1

[wtnh]

Surprise, surprise. Despite all the hoopla about the iPhone 7 not getting an update to 16 - my iPhone 7 (SE) just updated to 16.1.1 and appears to be healthy. The model number is MX992LL/A. Anyone else?

 

[madrigal77]

That's a 2nd gen iPhone SE. Not a 7.

 

[KOTN91]

Don’t you mean the SE 2020? (Which uses the same design as the 7)

 

[madrigal77]

Don’t you mean the SE 2020? (Which uses the same design as the 7)

Actually it uses the same design as an 8.

 

[wtnh]

Its an iPhone SE but the name is iPhone (7) - I did not put that name in - it cam that way. Its about 3 years old.

 

[KOTN91]

Actually it uses the same design as an 8.

As far as I’m concerned, the 7 and the 8 use the same design

 

[Cobold]

Look for your model number as described here and then it check here:

Identify your iPhone model - Apple Support

Learn how to identify your iPhone model by its model number and other details.

support.apple.com

But as said above: judging by the number you provided, you do not have an iPhone 7 there but an iPhone SE (2020), witch of course is getting iOS 16.
iPhone 7 definitely is not getting iOS 16.

 

[wtnh]

Ok - must be an 8 design then. Apple confused everyone by reusing the SE designation, I guess. And since the name says iPhone 7, I just assumed I would not get an update. So yeah, officially it is an SE (Second Generation).

 

[Cobold]

As far as I’m concerned, the 7 and the 8 use the same design

Not quite. The 7 has no glass back an uses aluminum, thus lacking wireless charging.

 

[madrigal77]

As far as I’m concerned, the 7 and the 8 use the same design

Similar, but the 8 and SE 2nd gen have a glass back where the 7 has aluminum.

 

[madrigal77]

Its an iPhone SE but the name is iPhone (7) - I did not put that name in - it cam that way. Its about 3 years old.

The default name is just iPhone, but it must have at one point been synced to iTunes that has had 6 other phones with the name iPhone synced to it. In that case it just adds a number in brackets at the end. You can actually change it to anything you want if you go to settings/general/about and click on name.

 

[FeliApple]

The name is iPhone (7) because the default name is iPhone. Your account has had at least 7 iPhones, so the default naming part of iOS names them as iPhone (2), iPhone (3), etc, you get the point. It does not mean it is an iPhone 7. Like others have said, per the model number you provided, that’s the iPhone SE 2nd gen.

You can change that name by going to Settings-General-About.

 

[wtnh]

Thanks - I changed to prefix of the post to SE (2020)

 

[KOTN91]

It’s still the same design. For example, the X has a different design but the 7 and 8 have the same design

 

[Andeddu]

Surprise, surprise. Despite all the hoopla about the iPhone 7 not getting an update to 16 - my iPhone 7 (SE) just updated to 16.1.1 and appears to be healthy. The model number is MX992LL/A. Anyone else?

I don’t need to read anymore of this thread to know that didn’t happen.

 

[jetsam]

Its an iPhone SE but the name is iPhone (7) - I did not put that name in - it cam that way. Its about 3 years old.

That 7 in parenthesis is *not* a model number. It is a counter. Here's a relatively recent thread discussing the issue:

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/iphone-renaming-itself.2342539/

And, just for the record, your iPhone SE is logically an iPhone 11 (minus a few features) - not a 7.

 

[NoBoMac]

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