What is my old phone worth?

• Which is the best place to sell old phones?

  For old phones, the best place is a shop that buys older and broken models and takes the rest back for free: ads for old phones mostly attract lowball offers. SubSell buys every iPhone from the iPhone X on, Samsung Galaxy phones and Google Pixels, pays cash on the spot, and recycles what cannot be resold, free of charge.

• Is it worth selling your old phone?

  Usually yes. A phone loses value every year it sits in a drawer, and an old phone still holding your data is a risk. Keep it only if you will really use it, as a backup or a child’s first phone. Otherwise sell it while it is worth something; if it is too old to sell, it is taken back for free.

• How can I determine the value of my phone?

  A phone’s value comes down to five things, in this order: the model and its age, the storage, the condition, the battery health, and being free of accounts and locks. Recent Pro models in high storage are worth the most. SubSell’s published cash prices, up to $1,950 for a sealed iPhone 17 Pro Max, are the best case; the check gives your exact price.

• How can I check the value of my phone?

  Find your exact model, storage and battery health in Settings, then look that phone up in a buyback price list and in sold listings. The buyback list gives the “up to” price, for the best condition; sold listings show a private-sale ceiling. For an iPhone, each model’s SubSell page gives its cash price capacity by capacity, confirmed after a free 5-minute check in store.

• How do I remove everything from an old phone?

  Sign out of every account first, then erase the phone with its built-in reset (Erase All Content and Settings on an iPhone, factory data reset on Android), take out the SIM and memory card, and remove the phone from your Apple or Google account online. Your cloud copies stay safe. At SubSell, every phone is also wiped with professional erasure software before resale.

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