I Used an iPhone XS for a Week in 2025!

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I really like this phone. I am just concerned with someone spending similar to or more money on the XS or XS Max, when they could buy an iPhone SE 2022 or even a 12 pro for about the same price or a few bucks more. If you have this phone and are thinking about upgrading is a still a solid device, and I used it fine for 9 days and could use it for another 9 months if I didn't change out phones to make a video almost every week.

*Be aware to thoroughly check your phone after you receive to make sure everything is original to the phone, if something looks off, return your phone*

A list of other phones that I would also buy:

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Scott with Techno Eclipse
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As someone who minimises brightness and charging whenever possible, my iPhone XR lasted me 6 years with (excessive) daily use. The camera was the only real downside. The consumer market has gone insane over phones.

OK-fiyq
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I use this phone as a primary. The only thing I hate about is the idle drain. 20 - 30% overnight drains. Otherwise would've been a perfect phone for me.

prshantdeula
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I literally just upgraded to the 16 pro max from the XS max less than a month ago. The phone is useable for most tasks. The largest issues were the constant draining battery life on ios 18, the lag with certain apps like the camera, instagram, safari, and anything with significant animations (basically the OS). Considering most of my work is photography and Instagram it was a huge issue trying to upload post and swapping between apps just to do prep work on making weekly posts. The phone would heat up significantly during and slightly higher process intensive task. It was a great phone that held up over the years, definitely keep the phone on older iOS versions if you have the option.

anthsil
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I remember owning this phone. This is my favorite phone that I have ever owned. Great photos, excluding front facing camera, which was decent to say the least. Battery life was iffy. Arguably the most beautiful phone Apple ever made. iPhone 13 Pro in sierra blue is up there.

PopRox
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Did you mean to say XS Max in your title?

Skelamander
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This was my favorite phone. The perfect size. The perfect feel. I recommend getting the official black leather apple case. The perfect combo.

Hamlock_Maneuver
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Still using it, still works great. A little bit of heating issues and fast battery drain when playing Wild Rift though .

elouiseid
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the xs max was the best iphone upgrade i done ever, since then i have upgraded and the only upgrade since the xsmax that has been worth it for me has been the 120hz display on my 15 pro max.
i still miss the rounded xs max design and 3d touch :(

JEMODZ
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currently daily driving an ios 6 iphone 5, you don’t need much more than that honestly: im getting LTE, full icloud sync, imessage google maps & youtube (only web browsing can be limited)
having more than that is kinda pointless anyway

LVNVRN
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Got the 15 pro max in April and it will be my last iPhone purchase if I ever decide to upgrade its Samsung 😭

BL.JohnDoe
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I have a Xs on iOS 17.7 and it’s a similar experience to what you’re describing. I think it would need to go back to iOS 16 at least to get better performance.

spec
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1:37 Can't you just hold the 1x button and pitch upward or downwards and it will bring up the zoom scale?

MarsPLAYStudio
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I just upgraded from a XR to a 15 Pro Max! the only downsides of that phone were camera and battery life (with how degraded it was, the performance hit was a lot), other than that it's a perfectly usable phone, even in 2025, and with rumors that iOS 19 will be available to the XR it still got a couple of years of life to the very least.

tamal
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I think the very very basic phone that you can buy is the 6s/SE where you can still use a lot of apps. Older than that is already very slow to use. Anything above that will perform well.

RideOnTimePH
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I’m loving my XS Max and sticking with it 🤗

darightbrotha
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not me still using this iphone daily 😂 actually my fav iphone design & best designed generation of lifeproof fre cases which I LOVE. will literally buy another on fbmp if i can find one

joshxkerrigan
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The phone is fine. I had to use my old iPhone X when I went home for Christmas and it was perfectly usable.

rafaeldomenikos
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I was seriously considering buying this over an iphone se 2nd gen, but i still opted for the se mainly because of the faster processor. So glad i chose to buy the se over xs because so far i haven't experienced any performance issue on my se on ios 18, tho the battery is crappy ngl.

justinilagan
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its been 5 years I dont have any complains with it but i would recommend people who have this phone to not update it as i saw lags after updates and slowness overall of the phone after updating it to ios 18 but its still usable and also I have a green line on it after 5 years of use!

Ayman
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Which is the best old iphone model you have tested so far ?

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