Apple's iPhone XR[1] is the best iPhone available for most users. Not only is the XR more affordable than the iPhone XS[2] and iPhone XS Max[3], but the overall experience doesn't forgo many of the headlining features that XS users will have access to.
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I've been using the iPhone XR as my main device for the past week. At times, I forgot I wasn't using my iPhone XS Max, and other times I was yearning for my personal device. Here are three things I love about the iPhone XR, and one thing I'm not all that impressed by.
Apple iPhone XR: What I love
The display
Look, we can sit here and argue how on paper the iPhone XS and XS Max OLED display is better than the iPhone XR's LCD display. We can talk about how, technically, the iPhone XR's screen is a lower resolution than the iPhone 8 Plus. And how all of that means that the iPhone XR's display is inferior, and surely going to provide a worse experience.
And we'd be wrong. Technically, yes, on paper, those are the facts. But in practice, while holding the iPhone XR in your hand and looking at a photo or watching a video, this display is every bit as good as the iPhone XS.
Also: Apple's iPhone XR: The Reasonable choice[5]
Not once during the past week have I looked at something on the iPhone XR and wished I had the XS Max. Even with the two phones side by side, the differences are minimal. There's a little more clarity on the iPhone XS Max,