It’s time to let my iPhone Mini go

iPhone 13 Mini in black

Good night, sweet prince. | Photo: Vjeran Pavic / The Verge

It’s not the Mini, it’s me.

Nearly five years after it launched, the 13 Mini is still the best phone ever made. That hasn’t changed; it’s just that I changed. And as painful as it is to admit this, after using it again for a couple of weeks, I think it’s time to put my iPhone 13 Mini to rest.

The Mini is an underdog. An outlier. It’s a weird little phone that Apple tried to sell twice, couldn’t, and promptly gave up on. If you pick it up after using any modern phone it’s laughably small. A tiny baby phone in a world of Maxes and Ultras.

But small phones are so nice. I can use the Mini one-handed without fumbling around trying to reach my …

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