Bad news if you want the iPhone Mini: It seems that the weak device will not make a comeback any time soon.
Apple has no ongoing plans to introduce the smaller iPhone model, Bloomberg's rapporteur Mark Gurman said in a recent Livestreamed Q&A Session. He noted that the company was moving away from smaller designs to go “larger and larger and larger”, which in turn makes smaller phones feel even smaller. “We see what he tells the Apple market,” he added.
Apple's longtime reporter's statements, which has close links to company sources, are coming because the company has recently stopped selling its iPhone SE from a third generation-efficiently leaving no iPhone model under 6 inches. The company also allegedly works on a Folding iPhone With a 7.8-inch indoor display without a furrow and an external 5.5-inch display, with the launch date next year.
The iPhone Mini, which has not been refreshed since 2021, had a 5.4 -inch display. The smaller model debuted with the iPhone 12 Mini in 2020.
Apple did not respond immediately to the commentary request.
Although iPhone 12 mines and 13 mini She developed a niche fanbaseEspecially in people who thought it was better in their hands, they failed to get widespread traction. At the time, Counterpoint Research announced that the Mini of the iPhone 12 participated with only 5% of the sale of iPhone 12 in January 2021. Neither the iPhone 12 mini nor 13 mini dropped the top 10 lists of best -selling smartphones by the end of that year, according to Counterpoint.
Ramon Lamas, director of the IDC market research firm, told CNET “Writing is on the wall for this.”
“With the trend of larger and larger smartphones-healthy there, the iPhone Pro Max and the success of value-based products and iPhone 16e in the world is under constant pressure from all other iPhone cousins,” Lamas said.
“I think many people liked it, especially for their old parents who wanted something small and simply to cope – but rarely for themselves.”