Apple has long offered you credit for a purchase (or an Apple Gift Card) to trade in your old device. The program started with only Apple devices, but the company now also accepts Android phones. And why wouldn’t it be? What better way to make the switch to the iPhone easier?
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The Apple Store has never been a Great place to trade in your Android phone for an iPhone, though. Apple doesn’t offer as much as some other services, and you can almost always make more by selling your old phone directly to someone else (although that’s more difficult and carries more risk).
Starting today, your old Android devices will earn you much less from Apple than before. A Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra, for example, previously fetched a maximum of $545 and now caps out at $405. It’s not uncommon for prices to adjust – as hardware ages, it’s simply worth less than before. But the prices of most Android devices have fallen precipitously, regardless of their age.
Apple trade-in values for Android devices, with January 16 prices on the left and January 19 prices on the right.
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It’s unclear exactly what Apple does with these Android devices once they’re traded in, but it likely works with an outside company that refurbishes or recycles them, and it could be that Apple just isn’t not offered as much for these devices as he used it. to be.
For what it’s worth, a few Apple devices have also come down in price, but only a handful of devices (like the iPad Air, iMac, and Mac mini) and by a relatively small percentage compared to Android devices. .
