{"id":260393,"date":"2026-05-27T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/27\/apple-updates-trade-in-values-for-iphone-ipad-mac-and-apple-watch\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T13:10:25","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T17:10:25","slug":"apple-updates-trade-in-values-for-iphone-ipad-mac-and-apple-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/27\/apple-updates-trade-in-values-for-iphone-ipad-mac-and-apple-watch\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Updates Trade-In Values for iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Watch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2026\/05\/27\/apple-updates-trade-in-values-may-2026\/\">Apple Updates Trade-In Values for iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Watch<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2026\/05\/27\/apple-updates-trade-in-values-may-2026\/\">https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2026\/05\/27\/apple-updates-trade-in-values-may-2026\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-27 07:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.macrumors.com\">www.macrumors.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Apple today updated its U.S. trade-in estimates, raising values for most current iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Watch models while reducing several Android offers.<\/p>\n<p>The headline iPhone trade-in figure rises from $685 to $695, with every iPhone 16 model gaining value:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>iPhone 16 Pro Max<\/strong>: $685 to $695<\/li>\n<li><strong>iPhone 16 Pro<\/strong>: $550 to $560<\/li>\n<li><strong>iPhone 16 Plus<\/strong>: $455 to $465<\/li>\n<li><strong>iPhone 16<\/strong>: $435 to $460<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Every current \u200ciPad\u200c also gains value, with the headline range shifting from $40 to $670 up to $45 to $690:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>iPad Pro<\/strong>: $670 to $690<\/li>\n<li><strong>iPad Air<\/strong>: $445 to $460<\/li>\n<li><strong>iPad<\/strong>: $220 to $235<\/li>\n<li><strong>iPad mini<\/strong>: $250 to $265<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Mac changes are mixed, with most current models gaining value:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>MacBook Pro<\/strong>: $685 to $690<\/li>\n<li><strong>MacBook Air<\/strong>: $485 to $520<\/li>\n<li><strong>Mac mini<\/strong>: $340 to $375<\/li>\n<li><strong>iMac<\/strong>: Unchanged at $355<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Despite those increases, the top of Apple&#8217;s Mac trade-in range slips from $2,090 to $2,045, suggesting a reduction for a higher-end model not shown in Apple&#8217;s summary table, such as the Mac Pro or Mac Studio. The Apple Watch lineup also gets a mix of revisions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Apple Watch Ultra 2<\/strong>: $295 to $305<\/li>\n<li><strong>Apple Watch Series 9<\/strong>: $120 to $130<\/li>\n<li><strong>Apple Watch Series 10<\/strong>: Unchanged at $150<\/li>\n<li><strong>Apple Watch Ultra<\/strong>: $215 to $205<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Android trade-in offers have largely been cut, with the headline range narrowing from $30 to $370 down to $30 to $360:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Samsung Galaxy S23 Ultra<\/strong>: $230 to $200<\/li>\n<li><strong>Google Pixel 8 Pro<\/strong>: $170 to $165<\/li>\n<li><strong>Samsung Galaxy S23<\/strong>: Unchanged at $125<\/li>\n<li><strong>OnePlus 12<\/strong>: Unchanged at $200<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All Apple-listed values are estimates, with final offers determined after the device is received and inspected. Customers can apply trade-in credit toward a new purchase or receive the value as an Apple Gift Card, and Apple will recycle ineligible devices for free.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"heading--1cooZo6n heading--h3--23mHEuMI inline--Nnb-B96C\">Popular Stories<\/h2>\n<h3 class=\"heading--1cooZo6n heading--h4--3n5gZUlc title--3FvxcRdi\">watchOS 27 to Offer New Watch Faces, Including &#8216;Modular Ultra&#8217; Variant<\/h3>\n<p>For watchOS 27, Apple is testing new Apple Watch faces, and one of them is a simpler version of an existing Apple Watch Ultra watch face that could be coming to standard Series models.<br \/>\nWriting in his latest Power On newsletter,&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2026\/05\/27\/apple-updates-trade-in-values-may-2026\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple Updates Trade-In Values for iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Watch https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2026\/05\/27\/apple-updates-trade-in-values-may-2026\/ Publish Date: 2026-05-27&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":260394,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/images.macrumors.com\/t\/vcszsrjPCfVk9cZNI3IeXLqmWoE=\/1920x\/article-new\/2024\/05\/apple-trade-in-2024.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[120],"tags":[124],"class_list":["post-260393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-iphone","tag-iphone-16"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260393"}],"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=260393"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":260395,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260393\/revisions\/260395"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}