According to my understanding, the smartphones on the market today have reached the "ceiling" in terms of hardware configuration and performance. That is to say, if you simply measure a smartphone from the stack, I personally think that they can meet the actual needs of ordinary consumers. Even a thousand-dollar Android phone can do this.
Therefore, if you want to talk about "a mobile phone can be used for several years", especially an Apple mobile phone, I think we must first abandon the hardware configuration. Further, how long an Apple mobile phone can be used for a long time has nothing to do with the configuration. As I said just now, it is not a secret that the current Android phone or apple iPhone has excess performance.
Some people may say, how can there be a performance surplus in smartphones? Actually, it is. Suppose you just watch videos, play games, and use socially in your daily life, and you can use half the performance of a smartphone. Of course, smartphone overperformance is also related to specific usage, depending on how you end up using it.
For example, a clip software that can run on Apple's iPhone 11Pro and has no problems on the iPhone 13Pro. Because the editing software in the background will match its own proportion according to the performance configuration of the phone. But no matter how it is matched, different phones can run the same editing software. So, is there a performance surplus?
Based on this logic, I personally feel that an Apple mobile phone can be used for up to several years, which is indeed irrelevant to the configuration, but needs to pay attention to these two details, namely: daily maintenance and battery health.
Daily maintenance
In fact, using mobile phones and cars is a truth. Regularly, you need to do moderate "maintenance" of the iPhone in use. For example, if you see that the screen is dirty and needs to be wiped well; if you see that the back cover is about to be worn, you must quickly bring a protective case.
The purpose of this is mainly to show the user an iPhone phone with a good appearance. At the same time, it is the people around you who look like the mobile phone you use is so sharp, clean, and comfortable.
Of course, for the iPhone that has been used for a long time, if the appearance is not bumped and scratched, the whole machine looks and feels like the new machine, to be honest, it will still be favored and continued to be used by users.
Take my iPhone 6s, for example, which I've been putting in a drawer for a long time. But at that time, because of the protective case and the tempered film, the phone was still very new. Whenever I take it out of the drawer, it takes 3-5 days. On the other hand, if the case of this phone is seriously oxidized, will I still hold it? Not really.
Battery health
The hardware performance of iPhone phones does not require users to worry. Even if the iPhone6s just mentioned, it is a model launched by Apple in September 2015, and it will still be used by 2022. Can you say that its hardware performance is not good? Therefore, in the case that the configuration does not affect the service life, battery health is the most critical detail.
In other words, if the battery life of an Apple mobile phone becomes worse, it will naturally affect the user's experience. In the long run, don't say continue to use, many people definitely want to quickly change to a new iPhone. But what if you give apple phones a new battery? Is it equivalent to extending its service life? After all, configuration is fine.
Sum up
In response to the problem that an Apple mobile phone can be used for several years at the longest, my view is very simple: as long as you grasp the two details mentioned in the article, in fact, the Apple mobile phone can be used for a long time. Because the appearance of the new and old represents people's psychology, battery health is related to the performance of the iPhone. Two key points have been grasped, and are you still worried that apple phones will not take long?