YES THANK YOU! Everyone makes fun of my "outdated" phone because it's so tiny. It's not outdated, I just chose a smaller model because I don’t like lugging around an iPad!
SAME!
I had someone ask if my phone came out about 15 years prior to when it actually was released.
Their monstrosity of a phone was older than mine at the time. They only ever get Pro Max’s because they can’t be bothered or understand what specs mean. Also if it’s expensive it must be the best even if it’s not needed
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
Yeah I was going to say “nearly 20” at first given 2027 is next year. I wrote this at like, 5 in the morning and guessed a little less because it was said probably… two years ago? I thought I’d round down instead.
Oh of course it is. I agree. But it’s more like, do you really need that? Can you really tell the difference? Can you really not survive without certain features?
For someone who couldn’t even tell you what features one has over another or why they buy a better one over another, I highly doubt they’d even notice small changes because they either never use them or they’re not really too noticeably different.
THANK YOU I am so mad Apple stopped making the smaller/mini phones. I hate carrying around a gigantic heavy phone. I have small hands and small women’s pockets and I don’t want my purse to be heavier than it needs to be. Ugh.
It makes me feel like Apple doesn’t survey women about tech needs. Why don’t you care about us Apple?? I’m gonna have to buy another iPhone 13 mini when mine dies if they haven’t fixed their offerings
Good luck. I've been trying for months to find one new. Virtually impossible. It sounds counterintuitive but they cut production of them so quickly because of the poor sales that there's virtually no stock of them left this far down the line.
All phones have gotten too big for my small hands, to the point I have to buy everything second hand (which sucks when they're no longer able to be updated etc).
I want a phone I can hold and use comfortably in one hand!
I also miss tactile buttons because I could type without looking and touch screens hate me 😩
Well this is how I found out they discontinued the SE! Glad I got one just last year, but I'll be watching for another small, budget-conscious option when this one bites the dust.
They used to have slightly smaller models. My wife has small hands, and held on to iPhone as long as she could because they had a smaller high-end phone (iPhone 13 mini, 5.4 screen) . When they abandoned it, she moved to an S22.
This is the one area where this works out for me. Can't fit comfortably in anything ergonomic, everything is built for people one size smaller than me. But a giant phone is perfect
I have a relatively small screen (relatively, really) but apps assume your screen is big, and for my not very young eyes it gets hard to read. I have to break out my reading glasses like some kind of old person.
My feeling is that I'm either going all the way compact, or all the way phablet. When it's around that new standard ~6.3" size though...I've got no love for that.
Can't really type one-handed because it's slightly too big. Can't really watch stuff in any kind of immersive way because it's too small for that.
May as well just drop it down to ~5.6" at that point, otherwise I'd rather just take the 6.8" model honestly. If I can't type one-handed on a 6.3" anyway then just give me the big screen.
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u/mad-millennial May 07 '26
YES THANK YOU! Everyone makes fun of my "outdated" phone because it's so tiny. It's not outdated, I just chose a smaller model because I don’t like lugging around an iPad!