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1.0 out of 5 starsgood honest review for the iPhone XR
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 3 June 2021
I've had this phone for just over 3 weeks, it arrived on the 13th May. I ordered an iPhone XR BLACK 64GB. what I had when I initially opened the packaging ( the packaging is clean, no damage, the phone is super safe and well wrapped ) was a BLUE! iPhone XR. An entirely different color to what I ordered. now normally people would send it back, but I needed a phone and I don't really have the time to send it back, to then be refunded 5-7 business days after they received it to re-purchase in the correct color. it should've been CORRECT the first time around. But even though I hated the color, I decided to just keep it and see if it would grow on me. I still hate it.
Now, onto the phone quality:
the phone itself had 0 noticeable scratches on it, looked completely brand new, fresh out of an Apple store. for £310, it's worth the amount you save instead of getting one from Apple. The screen has been "iPhone screen ghosting" ( search it up on google if you don't understand ) which is very annoying as the only way it fixes itself sometimes, is if you lock the screen then open it again, or leave your phone for a few minutes. In some cases, I've turned the phone off and back on which for the standard they claim there offering, shouldn't happen at all. something must be faulty on the inside for it to be so inconsistent with screen recognition. Finally. the face recognition, mine has worked 85% + of the time. with the exceptions sometimes I might have not had myself in the perfect position for it to recognize me. Not many issues with that but definitely have been a few weird moments where it should've worked and didn't. Don't know if that's down to the technology itself or just the phone refurbishment.
Now the final section, the battery life
Upgrading from an iPhone 6s to an iPhone XR. the difference is crazy, my previous phone would be dead inside a time of 90minutes on low screen brightness and on power mode. but on this phone, the battery life can literally last me all day. as I work from home at my desk, I'm not on it 24/7 so some days I forget to charge it and have enough to use it the next day. I'm not much of a phone person, I probably have 30ish hours of screentime a week which isn't a lot compared to other people my age. having upwards of nearly 100+hours. Battery life is 4.5/5 for me