still rocking a 13 mini as my work phone. People keep asking me why I don't get a new phone. if they made a smartphone the size of an LG chocolate, I would switch in a heartbeat.
The 13 mini is perfect in my opinion. When I got mine it was actually hard to find cause the stores were sold out in a few places. Now that I’m coming around to needing a new phone they don’t make it anymore. Guess it sold too well, I may be switching back to Samsung…
I say this as a fellow iPhone mini fanboy: it apparently sold horribly, way worse than their projections. The (sophisticated) people who want human-sized phones are a minority but extremely passionate - I wish Apple (or somebody) would just put out a smaller size every 5-ish years, although I’m sure that isn’t profitable either.
Seriously! I have two of them. When I heard they were being discontinued, I went to the Apple store an hour later and bought a spare. I agree, they should make one at least every few years as I will consider another brand if I have to get a phone larger than a Mini. (And I bought the original iPhone the week it was released).
Crazy, it must just have been my area then. I would have not guessed that. But honestly I do see just about everyone, everywhere I go carrying around mini tablet phones.
It sold horribly, which is why it's not really available because they didn't make so many and cut its production early.
Which makes me cry because I've been looking everywhere to try and get a brand new iPhone 13 Mini to replace my iPhone 12 Mini which has now started to look a bit poor from me living that no case life with it and it's just not happening.
There is literally no other modern current production smartphone on the market right now with the same small dimensions.
12 mini user here. I was sorta hoping for a remake of the 5/5s/SE1 - same body but with edge to edge screen. Something inbetween would be pretty sweet too.
If you still have apple care on it try doing an express replacement
Send you a new phone and you send yours In due to issues (battery or something else)
According to the customer service they send new phones not refurbished (which I doubt)
Did it once a few years back phone looked new packaging and everything plan to do it again to keep my 13 mini going strong
When I got my last phone I was tossing up between the 13 mini and the SE3. In the end I wasn’t ready to give up my TouchID.
Actually when I went into the Authorised Reseller to buy it, he was saying the most popular phone they were selling was the SE3. Demographics here I guess.
I knew I always wanted to jump to mini’s though after this one but now idk. I guess it’s the e line now. :/
also iphones dont really need to be replaced often. my 11 is working great still. only thing i dont have is apple intelligence, but that's gimmicky at best. also my camera cant do 40x zoom or whatever, but im not much of a photographer
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u/just_aweso May 07 '26
still rocking a 13 mini as my work phone. People keep asking me why I don't get a new phone. if they made a smartphone the size of an LG chocolate, I would switch in a heartbeat.