Other iPhone Upgrade Dilemma: Every Year or Every Few?

[A1423]

Upgrade yearly: the cost of buying a coffee every day of the week.

Upgrade every two years: the cost of “almost” a coffee every day of the week.

Upgrade every three years: the cost of a coffee six days a week.

Upgrade every four years: the cost of a coffee five days a week.

While the cost is negligible from a grand scheme of things, I don’t feel much improvement year over year beyond the initial 10 minutes of excitement and the hours of frustration setting up the phone again.

Upgrading every year costs me $0.41 a day. Where are you getting coffee for that price?

 

[MisterSavage]

This is an answer that only you can answer. I myself have been on the iPhone Upgrade Program existed. I enjoy it and can afford it. (only added that last sentence for the inevitable "it's a waste of money" comments)

 

[LionTeeth]

I absolutely respect people who keep their phones even half that long. It is something I'm striving to do with my 15 PM. It still has 103% battery health and does everything I need. Why upgrade? Keep posting - helps people like me be better

Yeah like tbh we've pretty much hit peak maturity. Computational limit. I would argue even the 13pro could last you a decade if you opened one new today. There was nothing wrong with my Xs max when I upgraded. I just had smaller storage - 64gb Eesh lol. Oh and the comms kinda sucked, they used a different lte chip or something in that model so it was always looking for a signal

But I mean storage was the only upgrade factor. I still use the Xs today as a camera feed with Alfred camera. I pick it up mess around on it and it's just perfectly fine. One of our kids might even have it as their first phone in a year or so.

The new phones are always cool to see and I'm sure there'll be SOME new nonsense that makes me think hmm maybe I could just upgrade lol but as a phone this one works amazingly.

 

[LionTeeth]

Any opinions on making the most of resale right now vs keeping it long enough where you are pretty much paying the entire amount out of pocket?

Sorry I missed this. I don't sell my used tech, like ever. It gets re purposed or given to family. So it's never a factor when I buy anything.

 

[SalisburySam]

iPhone Upgrade Dilemma: Every Year or Every Few?​

Prior to Apple’s announcement I didn’t really think there’d be any reason to upgrade our two iPhone13minis to iPhone17anythings. AFTER Tim’s discussion, we’re convinced there’s no reason to upgrade at this time.