Using the iPhone XR in 2024 - Review!

Nearly 6 years old, the iPhone XR will run iOS 18- pretty impressive for what wasn't even Apple's major flagship option in 2018.
Anyone using the XR? How's it working for you?

A gorgeous looking phone, i always had a soft spot for this weirdo

I have an S24 Ultra and looking to get an iphone as a backup and might consider the xr. I dont need anything special.

Got mine refurb in late 2020, the XR and 11 were the last iPhone with face ID and LCD screens that has no PWM compare to OLED. If i would upgrade, it would be for a 11.

I hope Android 15 brings out a mode for the pixel 8 where you can only charge your phone up to 80%. I know they do this on iPhone. Having your phone between 20 and 80% will preserve the battery life.

I got my XR for only 30€ but it has broken camera glass but it only cost 5€ to change it yourself

i remember whem my Nokia express music 5530 was better then anything

how you be chaging the app colors

got mine in 2018 and still use it to this day. battery health is 88 percent after getting a new battery over 2 years ago. I have no plans on upgrading.

Think about it, for a phone to still be alive 6 years after its release, it’s awesome. I never understood how amazing Apple socs where till I got a 13 mini, then I’ve realized all iOS are the same. You can’t buy a Samsung and have 3 years of life because they just won’t support it, plus if you go root, google fucks everything up so you can’t use bank apps. The iPhone at least is tolerable OEM.

I still use my XR as second phone 😅battery health 71%

i use an xr, it works okay

About to upgrade to an 13 from my XR. I’ve had it since the end of high school all the way through college. Great phone, for what is is

Saving up for my 15 Pro Max. I'm halfway there. Watching on ny XR.

my previous phone🥹🥹🥹

The XR is the worst phone I've ever had. it was terrible from the beginning. Everyone would have signal when I wouldn't.. because the trees were too tall, or some other excuse. it can't keep my precise location, It has issues with Wi-Fi, Issues with Bluetooth.. horrendous phone.

The XR is the 5C done correctly

The XR is still great after my 4y of use didn’t replace battery and still at 87% it’s smooth it places games well, the only thing is the camera not matching the new iPhones. It rarely lags and I don’t even feel the need to upgrade right now

I used to have a xr just 5 months ago as my second phone i put it in lower mode my battery was 86% i mean i didnt have to charge it for a day but that’s probably because i dont use it as much as i do my iphone 14 pro max

I had this phone since middle school for 4 years now, I'm going into the tenth grade and I recently upgraded to the iPhone 14 2 months ago. I still use this as a backup phone for browsing the internet and the battery health is 93% because I charge it when it's low battery and I don't use it since the past 2 months when I got my 14. I'm still gonna keep this as a backup phone untill next year when Apple stops supporting the phone or when my screen cracks because the cracks are from the screen protector. I still think it's worth it buying for a year as a backup phone or to hse5as a daily driver 😊

I just fixed mine recently and it hardly gives me a problem.

I love this phone I don’t want to upgrade to the 16 series, but I’m forced due to updates and battery health 😢

$100 of great value!

XR was our first iphone. We were happy using XR until 2024. Sadly we were forced to migrate to 14 because my town and nearby cities are getting worse and worse LTE reception to a point that we may lost connection for hours. The phone is stil seeing one to two bar of signals. But, there could be no data connections when we try to access the web. We were lucky to have the 128gb version. The XR UI feels reasonably responsive even at the latest iOS today. Battery heath were 96+ we last checked. I remember during these years we moved quite a few towns and countrirs. In some places, our XR receptions were always not the best when comparing with other newer iphones or Samsung. In a lot of cases when XR temp lost connections, our other phones were still capable of receiving messages and sending pictures. If LTE reception is not an issue, XR is a very decent iphone even on 2024.

I am still using an IPhone XR with a nee battery and it gives no problems and plays games like CODM just fine , I do use this phone alone side a Samsung and I love this iPhone

Not an iphone user, but I have a buddy who uses the XR up until now (probably still going until Sept 2024). Still going strong, battery health at 80%, a bit choppy on the performance but manageable. The one thing that he complains the most is definitely the overheating, and I kid you not, it is pretty toasty. We live at Southeast Asia, and its all warm and damp here, no snows, just rain and sun, all year long. He had it since 2019 (a year after the release but it is still old, stg). Mad respect for this phone, still able to sustain MLBB like a champ, and probably will do so for another year or two. From his words, its not worth the "budget iphone" option, a lot of stuff XR is getting outdated, and it's pretty much an ip 11 with one camera (literally). Might as well go for an 11. He also suggested me to get the 12 if I was to have an ip as my second phone. But we'll see how, I guess. Not a fan, but definitely deserved the recognition. XR is probably the peak iphone of its era, and I stand by that forever

I got my wives’ old Product Red version, it’s still unmarked and working well.
I like to use it when I travel, overseas especially I fit a local SIM card and good to go.

Very colorful video 🤭

Had a SE series 2 for 2 years before it cracked & caught water damage, now on the XR, it felt like a upgrade despite it being older than the SE I love the screen & curves/face ID. It lasts as long as I need for battery, with me mostly using my phone for Spotify & Texting/social media scrolling.

I had a iPhone XR for years now I’m using an iPhone 11 plan on getting a new iPhone when I have money

I use the XR daily as a RetroArch emulator. I play all my Nintendo GameBoy, Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance, NES and SNES games on it. It can even play Playstation 1 and Playstation Portable really smoothly. It's awesome with an 8BitDo Lite 2 bluetooth controller. I keep both devices in a little satchel and it goes everywhere with me. I've since had an iPhone 12 and now an iPhone 14 but I like having my XR with me as it helps not to drain my actual phone's battery.

still using it to this day

loved the XR great phone i had a 8plus and 7plus before that now i just got a iphone 13

Just upgraded from XS to 13. No contest. Very different experience. OLED + higher resolution screen = better battery and more appealing function

With these older iPhones if you want to full performance you need to change your region to france. Otherwise it throttles. I have a XR with 77% of remaining battery health and its still fine and doesn't randomly shutdown.

Did you know:
The most popular iPhone in the Philippines is the iPhone XR. Because I see most Filipinos, especially my Classmates are using the iPhone XR.

I think it’s a good smartphone if your on a budget or switching from a low end android phone

I got a used iPhone XS in nearly mint condition in Jan of 2021, I got the battery changed from 3rd party in 2022 end. 

I truly have no reason to upgrade. It's smooth, it gets the job done and I actually spend the money to buy an M2 Air than a new phone. 

I will only upgrade when Apple shops shipping new OS for this (as I get really excited to enjoy the new core features) and move on to either iPhone 12/13 or 16 (if Apple Intelligence, really amazes me) and this phone will be passed on to my 17 year old nephew. Kudos to Apple for building such long lasting devices.

i had a coral Xr back in 2018-2020. i really only stopped using it because i had to, i wound up having an awful fall at my old job where i wiped out and my phone went flying across a large room and it smacked into a wall and then the ground equally as hard, and despite being in a very thin rubber case, both the screen and back glass spider web shattered everywhere, and the phone only continued to really work for about a month. to this day, id say 30% of the touch screen, the whole bottom of it almost up to the halfway point, the digitizer just died in that area, so it renders the phone useless because you can’t even unlock it. these days tho, ive found new screens for as cheap as $35, so im thinking about fixing it now to have as a backup iPhone and just because i forget what iOS it’s even on i think it would be fun to see iOS from 4 years ago. currently have a 14 Pro tho, and it’s still going strong after a year but im probably gonna have Apple put a new battery in this phone once it gets awful so i can keep using this one for years for once. hopefully i dont break this one.

i remember watching videos about him using the iphone 6 when the xr was new, damn how i’ve grown up

I miss my XR, i want it back so bad

I forgot to watch this video I had saved the other day. We had a cat at work that had been with us since Jan, get picked up by a car and taken 😓 My Gm and I like to watch your videos but have been scatter brained best wishes

I had the option between an Xr and 11 pro, I took the 11 pro after watching ur vid😁

and no one word about HOW TO choose and keep not disapearing ringtone sound, screaming util owner will answer ?

Had 13 pro max and it got stolen using xr now its okay not how it was before

I still don't get how a phone of that premuim released when it did ... Did notcome with FHD just HD... Like does apple not know most content then and now is FHD and above and if not can be upscaled or just have more stuff on screen? Like no one find it funny that the AVP being full 4k over the quest 3 near 4K is pushed as a massive selling point. But then the XR bless it's heart does not need FHD? Any way It's a great phone may have even force Google to release the A models and I'm glad it sold well for the small phone fans.

XR is such an important code for Me, as my name starts with R

Had my xr for about 4 years now. Probably going to use it until it’s not possible anymore

I'm using this model for my app development since it can run iOS 18. It's surprisingly good