iPhone leaks assertion costs are going up adjacent year, but upgrade prices for each Apple ranges person already go much costly this period aft Apple slashed trade-in values.
Spotted by MacRumors, Apple has cut speech values for Macs, MacBooks, iPads, iPhones and Apple Watches, successful immoderate cases by arsenic overmuch arsenic 50%. The largest worth simplification I tin remember.
The astir important changes interaction Macs and MacBooks, specified arsenic the iMac Pro lone valued astatine a maximum of $600 (compared to $1,150 previously), and the MacBook Pro worthy conscionable $630 apical extremity (compared to $850 previously). Apple besides nary longer accepts the Apple Watch Series 3 arsenic a trade-in.
For iPhones, Apple chopped trade-in prices by arsenic overmuch arsenic $70, though the iPhone XS and XR trade-in values person amazingly accrued by $10. Meanwhile, Android smartphones are present astir worthless. For example, Samsung’s flagship Galaxy S22 Ultra (released successful February, starting astatine $1200) is present worthy $320, portion a Google Pixel 6 Pro volition nett you $95, little than an iPhone 7 artillery case. A Pixel 6 is valued astatine $55, astir the aforesaid arsenic an AirTag cardinal ring.
Here is the afloat database of updated prices for Apple devices.
Apple iPhone New Trade-In Prices
- iPhone 13 Pro Max: Up to $650 (previously $720)
- iPhone 13 Pro: Up to $550 (previously $600)
- iPhone 13: Up to $450 (previously $470)
- iPhone 13 Mini: Up to $380 (previously $380)
- iPhone 12 Pro Max: Up to $480 (previously $530)
- iPhone 12 Pro: Up to $400 (previously $430)
- iPhone 12: Up to $300 (previously $320)
- iPhone 12 Mini: Up to $250 (previously $250)
- iPhone SE (2nd gen): Up to $100 (previously $100)
- iPhone 11 Pro Max: Up to $330 (previously $370)
- iPhone 11 Pro: Up to $250 (previously $300)
- iPhone 11: Up to $200 (previously $220)
- iPhone XS Max: Up to $200 (previously $210)
- iPhone XS: Up to $160 (previously $150)
- iPhone XR: Up to $150 (previously $140)
- iPhone X: Up to $130 (previously $130)
- iPhone 8 Plus: Up to $100 (previously $110)
- iPhone 8: Up to $75 (previously $75)
- iPhone 7 Plus: Up to $60 (previously $70)
- iPhone 7: Up to $40 (previously $40)
Apple iPad New Trade-In Prices
- iPad Pro: Up to $445 (previously $500)
- iPad Air: Up to $230 (previously $245)
- iPad: Up to $160 (previously $195)
- iPad Mini: Up to $240 (previously $255)
Apple Mac/Macbook New Trade-In Prices
- MacBook Pro: Up to $630 (previously $850)
- MacBook Air: Up to $440 (previously $420)
- MacBook: Up to $100 (previously $175)
- iMac Pro: Up to $600 (previously $1,150)
- iMac: Up to $530 (previously $680)
- Mac Pro: Up to $1,250 (previously $1,550)
- Mac Mini: Up to $305 (previously $350)
Apple Watch New Trade-In Prices
- Apple Watch Series 7: Up to $155 (previously $155)
- Apple Watch Series 6: Up to $105 (previously $125)
- Apple Watch SE: Up to $70 (previously $75)
- Apple Watch Series 5: Up to $80 (previously $90)
- Apple Watch Series 4: Up to $45 (previously $55)
The saccharine spot successful each these prices is for two-year-old devices, peculiarly for iPhones — with Apple targeting owners coming to the extremity of their contracts.
Before you unreserved retired and commercialized your aged device, however, enactment that these are each Up To prices, which means they use to devices successful pristine information (beware case-less owners!). Note: Apple besides warns:
“If the information of the instrumentality is antithetic from what you described, we’ll supply a revised value... If you cull it, we’ll cancel the trade-in, instrumentality your existent device, and complaint the archetypal trade-in worth to your card.”
My proposal is to usage a third-party work similar eBay, Decluttr oregon Swappa wherever trade-in prices thin to beryllium higher. That said, the simplicity of going nonstop to Apple inactive holds beardown entreaty for many.
Either way, unless your iPhone is connected its past legs, I suggest waiting for the iPhone 15. Not lone person leaks revealed a agelong database of eye-opening upgrades, but they are besides expected to come with USB-C. When Apple changes ports (as happened with the past power from the Dock Connector to Lightning), the worth of erstwhile models plummets. So if you privation your caller iPhone to beryllium worthy thing successful a fewer years' time, hold for the power to USB-C.
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