How does one remedy a situation like this?
Loving the 14 pro. I like the DI over the notch, love the screen real estate, and am happy to have macro photography again - it’s one thing I really missed when I moved to the mini.
However, I do not love the weight. I had a 13 pro before my 13 mini, so I know I will get used to it over time. Heck I even went to Apple yesterday and tried a 14 pro max in store considering buying it (not that it really weighed much more than the regular pro), but after a couple days, I am now really missing my lightweight 13 mini.
So how do you choose between features you really enjoy or a size/weight you really love?
I’m late in the thread and was about to say let me know what you decide cause I missed delivery today and will get my 14 Pro Space Black tomorrow.
12 mini user diehard here.
I’m typing this on the 14 Pro. Love the phone but I miss the weight and size of the 13 Mini. It’s just such a nice unobtrusive device that does everything I need in a smartphone. I keep trying to talk myself into the 14 Pro, so that’s my hint that I’m doing the wrong thing. Anytime I try to talk myself into something means it’s not for me
Good thinking. Believe in your thoughts.
I'm in the same boat. I've been a diehard mini defender on these and other forums. I've had both the 12 and 13 mini models. But as I posted in
another thread last week, the Mini was the perfect "pandemic phone" but once I returned to business-as-usual, I did find myself wishing I had a slightly bigger screen and bigger battery. I knew the Pro would be bigger and heavier, but I was surprised just how big and heavy it actually is. Having said that, the Pro is obviously a better phone than the Mini in every single area except for its heft. Also I didn't realize how bad my typing is on the mini compared to the pro.
So it comes down to this: Are the increased features of the Pro worth the increased size? The answer is going to be different for everyone.
I told myself I'd give the Pro 7-10 days before committing one way or another. But I know it will be hard for me to give up all the new stuff, and better battery. I was constantly topping off the Mini (battery health at 92%) because I was terrified of leaving the house with less than a 50% charge. I finally put my Pro on the charger last night at 9pm with nearly 30% left. That's incredible.
Also contributing toward my decision—the leaks that there won't be a Mini next year either. Which means that if I want to stay on the iOS platform, I will eventually have to go big anyway. And with the carrier trade-in deals so good right now, if I don't upgrade, I feel like I'm leaving money on the table.
Fellow mini user and lover here. Seen and agreed with a few of your posts.
iOS 16, and to a degree iOS 15.6/15.5 was the real eye opener for me using my 12 mini which I’m currently still on.
Websites I’ve frequent have begun to have odd rendering issues, mostly bottom of the page - where I have my universal safari search/url bar. An odd freezing bug that seems random.
The upgrade to iOS 16 is becoming a deal breaker for me on my 12 mini. Soon as I heard rumores a 13 mini would be the last mini I knew something would be wrong.
Ios16 issues:
Black rectangle in notifications. Unsure if singular or a grouping.
Overlapping notifications (group/single doesn’t matter). This happens even after FaceID unlocks and scroll up to show noting but the notifications there is still overlapping. Groups that are overlapped cannot be expanded/separated to show all.
Lock Screen is starting to look crazy crowded like those terribly busy android lock screens - just much more uniformly balance I guess.
True, but it’s just a pain moving stuff back and forth, especially with my awful internet/cellular situation.
That is one more plus for the pro - I swear it gets better cellular service inside my house. HUGE perk out here in the boonies. I don’t think it’s my imagination either.
Other than music pics/videos not sure what is a pain to live back and forth if you use iCloud to backup/restore or even sync.
All PIM (Calendar, Contacts, Notes, email) bookmarks and data within apps that’s backed up would restore. Apps with their own data - content consumption apps/social media - would just sync up once signed-in.
iOS passwords makes restoring app accounts super easy.
Personally I feel pictures, videos and music are the most pain in the butt and longest to restore.
Well, I returned the pro today, and am back using my mini. I can’t believe I’m actually back to a dang notch after wanting a notch-less phone for so long.
I really loved the 14 pro and have nothing bad to say about it other than the weight of it just is not for me at this point. Handled a regular 14 in store, and I could go that route, except the 13 mini is basically the same phone only smaller, and I like it. At least maybe the regular 15 will lose the notch (here’s hopin).
I will say that moving back to the 13 was NOT as seamless as moving to the 14 pro. The eSim didn’t transfer over - it left the 14 pro but didn’t work on the 13 mini. It took two and a half hours in the AT&T store to fix it, in addition to it killing my daughter’s 13 pro because somehow my mini IMEI was listed under her number - makes ZERO sense.
Anyway, after that I went to Apple and within a couple minutes I was done.
I‘m a little sad, but apparently size really does matter. At least to me. ;-p
Best choice for you is what works best for you!
Please keep an eye out for things I’ve experience on the 12 mini above - blank notification listing, overlapping notifications and some websites missing bottom edge of the page just blank entries that suddenly show up within 3 lines of scrolling.
For me I tried the 13 mini and it was noticeably faster in launching apps ro games, less stutter of games (island wars specifically). Returned the 13 mins for 2 major reasons: no better pics especially bright light lens flare or halos, and the Notch, although narrower than the 12 mini, on the 13 mini it stood out like a HUGE eye sore.
I hope Apple retries the mini with portrait and macro lenses not ultrawide with the dynamic island. Animations like Siri Ned’s to be a LOT smaller - it’s unique enough that it doesn’t need to cover so much screen. I’m beginning to think FaceID is slowed down due to the FaceID animation!
