iPhone XR

I had android for years, and I got tired of the buggy experience after a year of usage, and dying when I needed the most. I switched to an iphone XR, and the phone worked perfectly for over 2 years, after which I gave it to another family member and I switched to a 13 pro. Are they expensive? [...]

I have an iPhone XR I bought in 2018 and there is absolutely nothing wrong with it. The camera could be better but if I really cared I could probably get a used android phone just for that. [...]

[...] I bought my iPhone over 5 years ago, and mainly because I valued battery life over two cameras. [...] It will just about get through a day on standby, but listening to music, using it as a hotspot, browsing social media or watching videos will drain the battery very fast. I don't even entertain the notion of playing games on it anymore unless I have a means to charge it nearby. The other main concern is that simple apps, particularly the camera, will take a while to load or even function. After updating to iOS 16, the days of quickly opening the camera app and taking a picture are gone. Sometimes the whole phone will freeze and crash. [...]

I had my iPhone XR (bought 2019) until last year. At that point an upgrade made it so slow it was barely usable, while the lack of further updates made it impossible to install or upgrade apps after the device and OS went EOL.

"Slow phone with slow animations" is a crazy assessment, I switched from Galaxy S7 to iPhone XR in 2018 because the Galaxy was (like every other Android I had) slow to do everything, applications would crash randomly and my phone would just give up and reboot without warning. [...]

I switched from Android to iOS because Google forced updates to my phone somehow, even though I had internet access disabled. [...] My phone (Blu R2) was a few years old, and after the update, all kinds of stuff was broken. For example, zooming a picture would cause the messaging app to crash. So once that update was installed, I had to enable updates continuously to try to get back to a working phone. [...] I gave up and bought an iPhone XR on eBay for half retail price. [...] It was apparent to me that Android updates are not tested thoroughly on older phones. [...]

Love my red iPhone XR I’m definitely sticking with it an not upgrading this year to the newer iPhone when they come out. I’ll wait to see what the 2020 iPhones look like or wait till the 5G iPhones come out to upgrade. The XR does everything I need it to do an lasts all day

Mine is fab the swipe up is a bit of a drag but all else is great. [...]

Well i decided to get myself an Iphone SE 2022, it´s a wonderfull phone for the price, my mom still preefers a bigger screen/battery, and she´s using iphone xr and well she likes it it´s her lil baby hehe

I got my XR last month and let me tell you it’s the best decision I’ve ever made. I compared it’s screen to the XS and there wasn’t any major difference at all! The battery on this phone is on a whole different level. [...] Camera is absolutely amazing and with the smart HDR it’s pretty great with photography. [...] Phone is a bit bulky once the cover and screen protector is put on. The 6.1 inch screen feels pretty big and is good to use. [...]

I just got an iPhone XR a month ago from a family member cuz they upgraded to the new 17 and my android happened to give up on me at the same time … man this phone is bad ass it does the job with battery life of 78 … it’s holding up great … definitely better than those free government phones

oh wow i've had my iphone xr since 2019 and the battery gets eaten up more quickly now but ppl are always surprised to hear my 5 year old phone is working just fine i have an og switch from 2018 as well! runs great! i also still play my 3ds XL from 2014!

I have a silver xs max 256gb. I got it because of the good screen and dual camera. And in pitch black I can still use face I'd.

I bought mine a while ago an wont change battery life is amazing i dont care about the oled panel in the x an xs the xr lcd is still vibrant enough for me an if it gives me battery life like this who gives a toss

Maybe the iPhone xr has an 720p display but is it really different than 1080p And it has one of the best CPU in the market and it has the same main camera just like the iPhone xs and water resistant and don't forget it's going to get at least 5 year update so I think the people just like to judge something that they can't get it (also I have nova 3 😁)

Owing to my carriers not supporting e-SIM, I have two phones — the other is an iPhone XR with Face ID. [...] The technical stuff is all fine, and it works as you say (I noticed the "look at screen" requirement myself a while back); my dislike is purely the practical issues, not the technical, as the arrangement of the contactless mechanisms in stores means the camera can either face me or the device can be close enough to the reader to work, but not both. Also, I'm still wearing masks quite often (not 100% of the time as when I bought the SE, but quite often) and for that, Touch works better than Face. [...] (On screen buttons are too small and often reject touches entirely, everything is so slow to respond it might as well be going via a random website). [...]

If we are sharing anecdotes, my wife and I got iphone xrs same Xmas. She regularly fully discharged hers, whereas I charged mine throughout the day. My phone very very rarely goes below 40 or even 50 percent. After couple of years, her battery life was awful and mine was fine. [...]

I noticed a big jump in speed when I went from my iPhone XR to an Iphone 13 pro. [...] If I didn't become a power user at that time, the iPhone XR works fine for basic tasks. But once the updates stop, then the iphone XR will progressively get more buggy. [...]

I've got the black XR and I too suffer with it randomly dropping the wifi, and I've also noticed it's already down to 99% on battery health since early-mid december when I got it. But other than that I love it.

I’ve used the xr for a little more than a month and you don’t realize that your screen is lcd and only is visible if compared to others. I haven’t experienced many bugs, my phone took like 5 seconds to turn off and the screen was frozen for a split second but this hasn’t happened much. The phone feels premium and an excellent phone if you come from older iPhones.

my iPhone XR is still going strong, 85% battery health and receiving OS updates. Wow. My 13 hit 79% battery health after only 2 years of use, so clearly Apple products aren’t immune from this phenomena either.

[...] I've got an 8 year old iPhone XR which I keep around as a backup/travel device because it's not worth selling, and the battery is… not happy even in airplane mode. For me to have a 10 year old mobile browser, I'd have to have kept the iPhone SE 1 (or was it a 5c?) that I bought second hand in 2018, and not upgraded it since I bought it. I got rid of it because the battery wouldn't hold a charge for 10 minutes.

[...] It's showing 79% Maximum Capacity in Battery Health, and I only occasionally use more then 75% of battery over a days use. I still have the iPhone XR I upgraded from, so a 7 year old 2018 phone, that still holds a whole day's charge too (but doesn't get much use, and doesn't have a SIM in it right now so I'd guess it's powered down the cellular radios?) I have an iPod Touch from a bit before Covid, so 6 years old from 2019-ish - it stopped getting daily use when Covid and WFH hit, so it's battery is old, but still in reasonable condition. [...]

[...] I buy an iPhone preferably used and use it until major OS updates are no longer available. I currently use an iPhone XR from 2018. I think that long term with iPhone it’s cheaper than doing the same with Android unless you go with really budget ones like 150 €, but that’s to bad of an experience for me. What I also really like with iPhone is that you can get really cheap displays and batteries which is not the case for Android phones in my experience.

[...] 5 years, that still saves a number of battery changes for devices that maybe you don't want to deal with regularly. [...] The iPhone XR from 2018 is still supported by iOS 18.

iPhone XR was released in 2018, and I got mine in 2019. It will still be supported by iOS 18, which is being released in 2024. 5-6 years of fully functioning hardware with official OS updates is much better than the Android phones I had before it.

Interesting that you have such problems with Amazon. I‘m using an iPhone XR (5,5 years old) and don’t have any problems using Amazon in the browser (Safari). And I’m on the latest iOS (17.4).

[...] I currently have an iPhone XR, and I have been so frustrated with it for the past five years. Why I've not changed device because it cost me a heck amount of money and minus my gripes is usable.

I have used my iphone xr since 2018 but today... I finally upgrade Can't wait to feel like I'm moving at lightspeed

143. Dad is a Hero, Mom is a Spirit, I'm a Reincarnator - 5/10 This is the last anime I will watch on my iPhone Xr that I've been using for 7 years and I sure did pick a banger to go out on.

i've been using a busted iphone xr since 2019 so understand that this upgrade is MASSIVE for me also my phone is green :3

I own a Nikon dslr. Cost a small fortune. Best pictures I’ve ever taken were on a 5yo iPhone XR.

My iPhone XR I bought refurbished in 2019. It still works fine. The battery health is at 84%, same as when I bought it.

also my (7-year-old) iphone XR is too full to even have discord on it, so it’s only on my ipad, sending me dozens of notifications a day, lmao sob

I agree. I bought an iPhone xR in fall 2019 and used it for six years, close enough, until cracks on the screen made it too difficult to read, then I upgraded to an iPhone 13. In the meantime, I was given a new 2025 iPad a few months ago, but still keep my old 2018 iPad around for reading ebooks.

I bought a refurb’d iPhone XR 5 years ago for £550 and then replaced with a refurb’d 11 Pro for £300 2 years ago. I’ve found both phones to be reliable, but did make sure I bought from what looked to be reputable retailers. You do get what you pay for - think I’ll have to replace again next year

i got my iphone XR when that phone was new, so i guess it’s like 6-7 years old now. it was fine till i recently left a cracked screen protector on too long, and now there are two horizontal lines in the middle of my screen, but i still don’t see a need to replace it yet.

Looks like my phone's about to die. It stopped charging via the port ages ago and now it's stopped charging wirelessly. It's the 2018 iPhone XR and I've had it 5 years and it's probably cheaper to get a new one second-hand than have it fixed, but I was perfectly happy with the thing ffs.

My iphone 14 broke, so I've been using my old iphone XR It was released in 2018! Still works ok, kind of slow loading things a lot Apple Maps surprisingly barely works, but Google Maps is fine

[...] so that's good but due to other issues with my phone- which i need for work- we used our switch 2 savings fund to order a refurbished iphone 14 last night 😔 i've been rocking an iphone XR for .... [...]

About 3 months ago, I went from using an iPhone 5 to using an iPhone XR and I just have to say, what a difference in performance. [...]

So I have had this phone for over month and it is the best phone ever a good price works well and does what I want with a phone.

I went from a 6 year old iPod 6 to the iPhone XR and I absolutely love it and think it’s totally worth it

I've got the exact same storage issue on my iphone xr. [...]

I replaced my old iPhone XR with a brand new 16 this year, not because anything was wrong with it (even the battery was OK), but I wanted to see what the changes brought. I was quite surprised that other than the much better battery, USB-C, and much better camera, and sometimes faster speed, the old one was holding up quite well. You can get an old iPhone XR for 100 EURish, in decent condition. [...]

I've got an iPhone XR with a chunky (highly protective) Speck Presidio case that's comfortably thicker than the camera protrusion and therefore lays 100% flat. Gotta say it would drive me nuts to have a phone that didn't lay flat and couldn't therefore be put down safely on the edge of the sink etc.

Build quality too. My iPhone XR that I am deliberately keeping on lower iOS for jail breaking reasons that when comparing the thunderbolt port to the iPhone 13. [...] Any slight jiggle of the adapter will cause it to disconnect. [...]

I use Linux on my home and work computers (I'm the tech person at a small government entity and no one cares what OS I use) by choice and preference, and iOS because this iPhone XR (from 2018, I think?) was a hand me down from a friend who likes to buy new phones. [...] The software iFuse on Linux has been indispensable. [...]

[...] Want a mechanical pencil that will last you through grad school and at least a decade of your career? [...] It’ll be $30, and worth every penny. [...] Electronics are a somewhat different issue, of course, but even there, my iPhone XR is still going strong, 85% battery health and receiving OS updates.

[...] I have never got through an entire day with an iPhone (XR, 12, 13 Pro). [...]