Apple iPhone XR Review: The best iPhone for most people

Its new iPhone XR features a lot of what makes the more premium XS and XS Max special, squeezed into a glass-and-metal package that costs significantly less. This is, as you would expect, an exercise in compromise: the XR retains the high-performance A12 chipset and delivers the best battery life we’ve ever seen in an iPhone in some time.

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[mariosangourakis]

Who has seen all of the XR reviews and unboxings?

[TheFinalWhistlYT]

The Xr battery life is what makes it such a compelling buy.

[JoaoVictorMignoli]

Who has seen all of the XR reviews and unboxings? and still didn't have cash to buy it? hahahah

[MuttaqiAliMuhammad]

Just to point out that normal iPhones that do not have 3D Touch (including XR) can long-press on the space bar and still be able to move the cursor around. It's not only exclusive to 3D Touch enabled devices just in case you missed it.

[OklahomaMomof]

I have the XS max and my husband got the XR I wish I would of waited for the XR. I love the color of my XS max but the only difference is the screen and portrait mode other then that it’s like the same phone. Not worth paying that much more money.

[rachellefrancois]

Already preordered. More than excited!! Coming from a 6s to an XR!!

[LongNguyen-uein]

I got XR/128gb/RED, week ago.
It’s beautiful and works great.
I enjoy it for now.

[dytch]

I freekin LOVE the iPhone XR! 🤗🤗🤗🤗❤️😎😎😎😎

[Whosyadaddy]

T-Mobile gave me $390 for my S8 so I got the XR for less then 400 bucks! Great deal! Liking the phone so far, screen is far better then I thought it would be.

[tinman-ufto]

Watching this on my Black IphoneXR. Honestly this is one amazing phone. Don’t hate it till you try it. Go to Best Buy. Check it out right next to the iPhone XS. The display is top notch! (See what I did there 😂) and the battery life is excellent. Goes all day with heavy use. Apple hit it out if the park with this phone!

[Seanmyers]

I was looking at phones today and saw it person, the screen looks so much better than people say it does

[blonde]

Great video! I love my iPhone XR I have the white and it’s so classy and the cleanest option in my opinion. But I’ve only had it about 2 months and I can’t believe how much I love this phone I mean people compare the other flagships which is stupid! The XR is an amazing phone. By the way i have 3D Touch! I dont know what people are even talking about Lol 😂

[acoffeewithsatan]

As a longtime Android user, I have to admit Apple finally surpassed one of my critics - only making high-end phones way too expensive and too high-tech for the majority of the users. Most people who just use their devices for social media, messaging and so on won't need all the processing power, fancy OLED nearly bezeless screen; these people won't even notice the differences of this device while still having a solid and reliable phone.

[davva]

This is the best option for me. I would love the Xs but I do not want to spend over $1000 on a phone and I would need the 256GB version which is $1149. The 128GB Xr is $799 which is big enough for me and $350 less. I really do not care about the 2nd camera.

I am going to wait a little while longer and see if there are any deals next month on either the Xs or Xr but I would be more than happy with an Xr coming from an iPhone 7. I just want the new form factor with the larger screen on the smaller phone.

[JeffreyVBright]

The argument about resolution is ridiculous for any person making youtube videos, like, Engadget. Have you watched a 720p video and a 1080p video on any 1080p phone? There is a obvious difference no matter how you spin it.

[kenisnubb]

Hey no worries, ios 13 has 3D Touch so🤷🏻‍♂️

[octavio]

Ohh... your iPhone xr only has one camera on the back ? you must be broke.






Jk. Got the Red xr 128gs been getting a lot of compliments on it. And the battery life is pretty sweet.

[johnheneral]

my xr rocks. never been satisfied owning a mobile phone

[PacificOceanQuest]

I got the white iPhone XR and it’s a lot better then I thought it would be ... I love it

[m_m]

I got the iPhone XR Red 2 weeks ago and I love it! Recommend it to anyone who is thinking about it.