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Apple discontinued the iPhone 13 mini, the last of its pint-sized smartphones, in September 2023 — and we’re not going to see another any time soon.
The iPhone mini was first introduced in 2020 as a smaller-sized version of the base-model iPhone 12. Unfortunately for fans, it only lasted one generation longer.
The iPhone 13 mini made its debut in 2021, but would not see a direct successor in the iPhone 14 lineup. Since then, many Apple users have bemoaned the diminutive iPhone’s absence, especially now that we’ve gone three generations without it.
And it appears that it’s going to stay that way, too. During a live-streamed Q&A, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman said that Apple doesn’t have any plans to bring a mini iPhone back to its lineup — at least not in the next few years.
And, with Apple’s discontinuation of the iPhone SE 3, that means that there are no under-six-inch iPhone models available to buy directly from Apple. The newly-launched iPhone 16e, which came out in late February, is 5.78 inches tall, 2.82 inches wide, and features a 6.1-inch display.
The iPhone 13 mini was 5.18 inches tall, 2.53 inches wide, and had a 5.4-inch display. The iPhone SE 3 fell somewhere between the two, as it was 5.45 inches tall and 2.65 inches wide. It notably featured a smaller 4.7-inch diagonal screen, though this was due to its use of the Home Button.
