{"id":260354,"date":"2026-05-28T08:45:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T12:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/28\/10-old-iphones-that-are-still-a-good-buy-in-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T11:50:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T15:50:20","slug":"10-old-iphones-that-are-still-a-good-buy-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/28\/10-old-iphones-that-are-still-a-good-buy-in-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Old iPhones That Are Still A Good Buy In 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.slashgear.com\/2180908\/old-iphones-still-a-good-buy-in-2026\/\">10 Old iPhones That Are Still A Good Buy In 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.slashgear.com\/2180908\/old-iphones-still-a-good-buy-in-2026\/\">https:\/\/www.slashgear.com\/2180908\/old-iphones-still-a-good-buy-in-2026\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-28 08:45:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.slashgear.com\">www.slashgear.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    <span class=\"gallery-image-credit\">Simpleimages\/Getty Images<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"disclaimer\">We may receive a commission on purchases made from links.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s face it: top-tier smartphones aren&#8217;t cheap, especially not Apple&#8217;s latest offerings. Sure, the base iPhone 17 offers a lot for $799, including a 120 Hz\u00a0ProMotion display, but that&#8217;s still a considerable chunk of change in a world that&#8217;s getting pricier by the day. The $599 iPhone 17e is an option, of course, but you&#8217;re making a lot of sacrifices to hit that price point, not least a 60 Hz display.<\/p>\n<p>That said, the fact that your budget may not stretch to the best of Apple&#8217;s newest iPhone lineup doesn&#8217;t mean you&#8217;re entirely out of luck \u2014 at least, not if you&#8217;re willing to buy an older, preferably refurbished, iPhone. While you won&#8217;t necessarily get a box-fresh, mint-condition device,\u00a0a refurb from a reputable source can last you years, if not longer.\u00a0That makes it a\u00a0great way to save money on an iPhone without making too many sacrifices.<\/p>\n<p>That is only, of course, if you buy the right iPhone. After all, while you can get a renewed iPhone 12 from Amazon for under $200,\u00a0that model is getting a bit long in the tooth and may be\u00a0too old to run iOS 26 without compromises,\u00a0making for a bargain purchase that may just frustrate you instead. That won&#8217;t be the case if you get one of the following models, though.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"\">iPhone 16 series<\/h2>\n<p>Any iPhone 16 model will be relatively&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.slashgear.com\/2180908\/old-iphones-still-a-good-buy-in-2026\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>10 Old iPhones That Are Still A Good Buy In 2026 https:\/\/www.slashgear.com\/2180908\/old-iphones-still-a-good-buy-in-2026\/ Publish Date: 2026-05-28&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":260355,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.slashgear.com\/img\/gallery\/10-old-iphones-that-are-still-a-good-buy-in-2026\/l-intro-1779793960.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[120],"tags":[69,77,124,80],"class_list":["post-260354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-iphone","tag-ios","tag-ios-26","tag-iphone-16","tag-iphone-17"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260354"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260354"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":260356,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260354\/revisions\/260356"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}