iPhone 12 mini

Got mine 1 yr ago rfurbished with a new battery and 128 GB storage. Still super happy with it. 1,5 days battery life, no heating problems and it has the PERFECT size

[...] Got it refurbished with a new battery 9 months ago. [...] When this one dies in 3 yrs or so I need a replacement !!

Every time I say iPhone is the way to go, someone goes “bro use Android, iPhone is stupid” 😄 I bought my iPhone 12 mini in 2021. Still using it, still works great, and I’ll probably keep it for another 2–3 years or probably even longer. iPhones are just built to last.

i've had my current phone for months now and it still surprises me how long it can go between charges. with my four year old iPhone 12 mini i would plug it in when it hit around 25-30%, but with this one sometimes i let it get down to 5% bc i'm just not worried about it dying

I bought this phone back in 2020 and I loved it. [...] Of course the battery health got a lot worse over time, but I got used to carrying a powerbank when I went out. The camera focus sensor on the main camera stopped working near the end and It was definitely annoying. [...]

[...] I've had my mini for over 5 years and hoping to get another 2 years out of it at least! the battery doesnt last as long, but I've been trying to reduce my screen time anyways so it actually helps me stay off it more. I think I'd rather spend the money I'd spend on a brand new phone on a digital camera and a portable drawing tablet.

My iPhone is all but unusable only four years after I bought it new. An iPhone 12 mini. It’s been laggy and slow for about two years, and no matter how much space I make on it, its battery lasts barely a few hours…this forced obsolescence makes me so mad. Build things to LAST!

Fact: The first iPhone I owned was the 4S, bought new in 2011. [...] My current phone is the iPhone 12 Mini, same small, flat edge design, purchased in June 2021, still going strong. [...]

I started de-googling a long time ago, part of it was an iPhone (12 mini), 5 years later I really felt like de-Appling as well. [...] I will happily install on devices that have been years without security updates though :s Overall the GrapheneOS experience (base launcher etc) is very clean, fast, minimal, ad free.

[...] I think if you spend a lot of time on the phone, have a lot of apps then it makes sense to upgrade your phone more frequently and also makes sense to have a larger screen and better battery life. [...] I have my iPhone 12mini for 5-6 years now, and I'd upgrade it now if there was a new small iPhone. [...]

I switched to iOS about 4 years ago (want small phone, so iPhone 12 mini), from a OnePlus3 with Lineage. I thought indeed that it was all going to be much better, simpler, more elegant (phone was 2x the price so), but I ran into a lot of issues that I wrote down at the time (some things have been fixed by now): Tried installing Signal 4 times, it failed on the apple account generation and no further clues that it didn't or did install Signal (it didn't) Can't put icons on the bottom of screen, where your thumb is... [...] IDK, it's screaming, there are anime cat girls everywhere; feels cheap. [...]

I've had an iPhone 12 mini for more than 5 years now and it's well overdue for upgrade. Still not ready for the jump to android yet, but that might come eventually, but for the time being I'm getting the iPhone 15 Pro. Gonna miss the small phone size but ah well.

[...] It’s very slow and the battery may as well be dead now. Love its size and the photo quality is fine for me personally. [...]

I had 12 mini and i will replace the battery soon and I’ve been using 14 pro max from 3 years and also using 12 mini along with that but my 14 pro max is broken ( like the display and also the back glass ) so you suggest me to get the repair done for the 14 pro max or replace the 12 mini battery and should i shift to android for second phone ??

👆All of this AND buy refurbished! My phone is an iphone 12 mini that I got for around $300 USD refurbished a few years ago. Battery life is not as great anymore and my camera no longer focuses properly, but all the necessary functions work, and I always keep a backup battery pack on me!

So I have an iPhone 12 mini (I bought used) and I should have bought a new used phone last year but I put it off until now and I usually buy a refurb that is one model behind which would be the 16 and... [...]

Then I guess there is me with my iPhone 12 Mini. Replaced the battery some months ago, Apple techs broke the screen, so got a free new screen too. It's starting to get very slow though, every update it gets worse. [...]

[...] When it comes to playing music from phones in cars, connection type seems to matter more than the source, and iOS has some weird built-in sound normalization only for CarPlay that drives me crazy. In my Audi A3 (2018), if I connect my iPhone 12 Mini via AUX or Bluetooth, sounds works perfectly fine. [...] However, if I play music via CarPlay (Spotify [lossless], YouTube, on phone .flac files, etc) some built-in sound normalization seems to kick in and suddenly it ruins the music when playing even slightly louder. I've tried for years to figure out what the hell is going on, tried every setting under the sun, but cannot get it to work so only thing left is some built-in sound ruinification ("normalization") that Apple does, only when played via CarPlay, not when playing via AUX or Bluetooth. [...] So right now I'm choosing between being able to have GPS or listen to music properly, as I cannot do both at the same time...

After using Android for like a decade, I eventually succumbed and got a iPhone 12 Mini (back when it was new). I still miss the ability of turning off animations as I could do on Android, and I'm 110% my current phone would feel 200% faster if I could just turn off every damn animation that just exists to exists. I'd much rather have a second to process if that's needed (which I don't think it is), than being slowed down by one second every time an app changes the page, everything feels like molasses when you navigate around.

I'm not sure what exact device you're using, but on iPhone 12 Mini, old.reddit.com is borderline unusable, very different experience compared to if you could access r/all like before via the actually usable web+mobile version, a comparison: Anyways, the end result has been I don't use reddit at all on the phone, so kind of ended up being good for me anyways.

Agree, been using Apple on-off for decades, seems to get worse every time. try to do my own manual photo backups As a Linux desktop user but Apple phone user, I do the same thing, so I can save the photos to my NAS, using ipairdevice/libimobiledevice/ifuse et al. [...] Apple still spams me that my photos aren't backed up, because I'm not using iCloud. [...] It really does seem like nobody at Apple is actually using any of the software they're releasing. [...] Since I got my iPhone 12 Mini, up until yesterday when I last used it, CarPlay still feels like it's worth risking my life every time someone calls me while I use the navigation. Not a single person could have tried this at Apple, because who would think it's a great idea showing a large avatar across the screen, over the navigation, as soon as someone calls? [...]

[...] Just tried it in Safari, Firefox and Chrome on a iPhone 12 Mini and I can read all the text? [...] Actually, trying to load that previous platform on my phone makes it worse for readability, seems there is 10% less width and not as efficient use of vertical space. [...]

The thing that amazes me most is that everyone on the teams responsible is probably using their Apple devices and running into these same bugs! [...] I've had my iPhone 12 Mini for so many years now, and this is still an issue, the only conclusion I can take from this is that people at Apple actually all have Android phones.

[...] Same here, used to have a Samsung, moved to Moto G which was the best phone I had so far, currently on a iPhone 12 Mini, and want none of these phones anymore. [...]

good enough to be a daily driver Are they, though? [...] (Although USB 3.0 w/ DP is a very nice addition.) That’s not to mention the general bulkiness and the fact that, afaiu, the software doesn't support either Bluetooth or GPS — which are the most important functions my phone provides. P.S.: writing this whine, I've realised Purism is not far off from the point where I'd make a happy switch — if they offered something smaller [2, 3] with an OLED display of at least 300 PPI [4], I’d buy it asap. [...] [3]: I understand why the current models are so bulky, but personally I don't really care for modularity and hardware switches. [...] [4]: My current iPhone 12 mini is almost 500 PPI, and it's gorgeous, but I admit that's probably overkill.

iPhone 12 mini here, I replaced the battery last year, and still going strong. Actually, I fear the day I'm forced to upgrade due not having the mini size available anymore...

[...] I don't need software freedom preached to me, thanks ...and we don't need to hear kvetching about self-inflicted punishment. [...] Suffice it to say: at the time I bought this iPhone 12 mini, there weren't really good options when prioritizing {small form factor,good privacy posture,good security posture,software freedom}. [...] Mentioning something iOS together with software freedom is as oxymoronic as it gets. There is no software freedom on iOS, you accept what you're offered and say thank you Sir may I have another [1]. [...]

So, if you have money, you can throw away as much as you can, right? [...] I have a few iPads 3 (the first one with Retina display), and it’s perfectly fine display, but VLC is the only app that works with it. [...] My perfectly good iPhone 12 mini is already at its last legs (I bet a couple of years), thanks to iOS 26 and the liquid ass. [...]

I’m in a similar position, but also I am so angry that none of the bugs from iOS 18, those I encounter daily with, none of them were addressed. [...] I am so sure there would be a proper release one day, but the plebs with once perfectly working iPhones, won’t get that bug fix and optimisations release. [...] I remember my iPhone 4S was almost perfect, but the iOS 7…9 made it slow and not very usable in comparison to iOS 6. Same thing I see with my perfectly good iOS 18 iPhone 12 mini, which just brought me back to these 4S times I forgot about. [...]

On iPhone 12 mini, the battery life is incredibly worse. I was charging once a day, 30 → 70% usually, and now I’m charging all the time I have a chance. I’m not very active user, but each session of screen time reduces the battery significantly. Before that I felt that despite the small battery, the device works forever. [...]

My dream phone has a body like iPhone 12 mini (which I currently use) without the protruding camera. Sounds similar to the iPhone 4, still my favorite of all the form factors in terms of "hand feel". [...] If they refreshed it to reduce weight and extended the screen to the borders I think it would be amazing

I sincerely hope that apple will consider making a phone with a worse camera that is flatter. As someone who rarely takes photos, and never photos of importance, the bump is just a dead weight to me. My dream phone has a body like iPhone 12 mini (which I currently use) without the protruding camera. [...] But it doesn't seem like apple (or any notable phone brand) thinks this is worth doing. [...]

The iPhone minis were the first one to not sacrifice on those things, except for battery life compared to other iPhones. Same great display tech as the normal sized iPhone of that year, same SoC, same camera. Even with the smaller battery, iOS is so aggressive with background tasks anyway, the iPhone 12 mini was my first iPhone and I got better battery life with it than any of my Androids I used over the span of a decade, even giant ones like the Nexus 6P, despite obsessively trying to install background task killer solutions and whatnot that were supposed to save on battery. [...]

[...] I got a case for only minutes after I bought it so it would have a chance of survival. Currently on an iPhone 12 mini and happy both that the clean straight edges came back, and that Apple's still making the occasional small phone.

I got a new iPhone 14, mostly because the battery is gone in my old iPhone 12 mini and I don't want to spend money to replace the battery now and then have the phone die anyway in like a year. [...]

I still love the blue color of the iPhone 12 mini. [...]

haha for sure. when i got my iPhone 12 mini it was bc my 6s battery was completely hosed and i would have to charge it multiple times per day or it would die on me just listening to music or whatever lmao. i'm amazed i still got $50 for it

Promise of 8 years of updates? [...] I haven't had an issue with my iphone 12 mini and I do not like the default sizes of phones these days, so I'm going to run it into the ground. Also, my ipad air 2 keeps chugging after all these years. [...]

[...] Surprisingly the most durable also. [...]

[...] I would suggest most would be using it as a daily driver. [...] Battery life is not even remotely a problem for "normal" use case. [...]

I just got one for 120€ because my android is so slow it’s barely useable I’m glad I get this it’s comfortable af and it still feels like a huge upgrade 😅

The tools to make stuff have never been so cheap. I'm shooting a live action short with an iPhone 12 mini I got second hand and a few lights I bought at the dollar store. There's no excuses anymore.

i read a thing about the new iPads only having eSIM and no physical SIM card so i went down a rabbit hole and long story short i have am using eSIM on my iPhone 12 mini now and it feels very weird that the SIM tray is empty but my phone still works lol

I got my iPhone 12 mini when it was a new phone it’s now 2023 and I still have my 12 mini and love it. I wish they would of kept making the mini line.

This is the reason why I kept my original SE, until the Mini series released. I just bought a 12 Mini at Walmart for $299 around Black Friday. I love the size, and how amazing it fits in my hand! I hope that Apple continues the Mini lineup.

It’s refreshing using a more compact phone. If I really need to do anything that requires a bigger screen. [...] There really isn’t a need for overly bulky large phones.

[...] As soon as I got it out of the box I was like “Wow, that is tiny!” Form factor-wise it reminds me of the iPhone 5, but with no home button. [...] I wanted the mini mostly because I do a majority of my mobile stuff on my iPad (also mini).

I've just bought my iPhone 12 Mini and I think it was the best decision so far. The last iPhone that I had was the iPhone 4 around 2011 and to be honest, I didn't stay with iPhones mainly because of their price and because you can really find some fine android phones for less money. [...] A really good phone, easy to carry and handle, nice camera, nice screen, and it just looks good. [...]

[...] I’ve been using smaller iPhones throughout the years. [...] I can reach all parts of the screen with my thumb and one-hand typing is still comfortable. [...] As for the battery life on the 12 Mini, I always carry around an external battery and a fast charger, anyway.

[...] I love the mini 12 too! It’s amazing. I traded my XS Max for the Mini and no regrets so far! Over big phones! Glad we have a compact flagship! Also I have no use for Lidar and a telescopic lens so the Pro wasn’t a viable option. 👍