iPhone 13 mini review: The last true small iPhone — a 5.4" flagship that fits any hand.
The small-phone holdout’s favourite — just keep a charger nearby.
The 13 mini is the last truly compact iPhone, with full A15 performance in a 5.4" body. Battery life is the price of that size; for fans of small phones, it is still the one to hunt down.
01Display
80/10080/100 — right at the average for premium phones of 2021.
02Camera
80/10080/100 — right at the average for premium phones of 2021.
03Performance
80/10080/100 — right at the average for premium phones of 2021.
04Battery
68/10068/100 trails the 72-point cohort average for premium phones of 2021.
05Build
86/10086/100 — right at the average for premium phones of 2021.
06Value
80/10080/100 puts it above the 76-point average for premium phones of 2021.
- Genuinely pocketable — the last of the 5.4" iPhones.
- Full A15 flagship performance with no compromise.
- Light at 141 g.
- Years of iOS updates remaining.
- Small 2,406 mAh battery — endurance is the obvious weakness.
- 60 Hz display.
- Lightning port.
- Discontinued — Apple no longer makes small phones.
How this review is built: every section score, spec row and comparison on this page comes from SpecEagle's tracked catalogue — scores weight measured specs against the 5-phone cohort of premium devices released around the same time. We don't publish invented lab anecdotes. Spot an error? .