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IPHONE X BUYBACK
We pay between $13 and $92 for an iPhone X. Capacity, condition, and carrier are the three selections that set the price. Those are small numbers and we are not going to dress them up. This phone came out in 2017.
An Unlocked item usually pays more than a carrier locked item (Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile, etc). Carrier locked means the phone will only work on one network until that network releases it. This model is an exception worth knowing about. We checked all sixty prices, and Verizon pays exactly the same as unlocked in all twelve squares of the grid. AT&T is lower than both. T-Mobile is lower again, and on the 64GB it is the lowest of the five. No carrier beats unlocked here.
Most people call this a trade-in. We call it a Buyback, and on a phone this old the difference that matters is where the number appears. A carrier makes you work for theirs. You answer the questions, you hand over an account, and the figure arrives at the end, once you are already committed to the errand. Ours is the first sentence on this page. That is the honest way round. The number is small, and you should be able to decide in ten seconds whether it is worth your afternoon.
Look at the screen next to any iPhone made before it. The blacks are properly black rather than dark gray, because each pixel makes its own light instead of sitting in front of a backlight. That kind of panel is called OLED. The iPhone X is the first iPhone Apple put one in, and every iPhone before it used LCD.
That is why this page spends its time on the display rather than the camera or the chip. OLED pixels dim as they age, and the ones lit longest dim fastest. On a phone switched on since 2017, the parts that never change are the status bar at the top, the home bar at the bottom, and the keyboard. Those areas can leave a faint permanent ghost in the panel. That is called burn-in, and burn-in grades an iPhone Faulty.
The test takes about five seconds. Go somewhere dim, turn the brightness most of the way up, and open a plain white screen. A blank note works. Now look across the panel rather than straight at it. If you can read the outline of the clock, the battery icon, or a faint keyboard sitting under the white, that is burn-in. If the white is plain white, the display is not holding your grade down.
One more thing that is specific to this model. Apple sold two different US versions of the iPhone X, and they are genuinely different hardware rather than the same phone with a different label. A1865 has the CDMA radio, so it is the one Verizon and Sprint sold. A1901 is GSM only, which is what went out through AT&T and T-Mobile. Read the Model Number line in Settings, General, About. Both quote at the same price here, so the answer does not change what you are paid.
The rest is short. We buy an iPhone X used or broken, cracked or clean, and Faulty is a row with money in it. A phone that will not power on is the one we cannot price, because it cannot be tested and your data cannot be cleared off it. We will recycle that for free, or mail it back for free, whichever you prefer. The price you accept is held for 14 days. Shipping is free both ways, and a sealed phone is paid through PayPal only.
LIVE PRICES
The used resale value of an iPhone X runs from $13 for a cracked 64GB up to $92 for a sealed 256GB that has never been switched on. Most people land between those two, in the $35 to $62 band.
Storage and wear do all of it. Every figure in the grid comes straight off our live price feed, so what you see is what the quote tool will offer you.
| Comparison row | 64GB | 256GB |
|---|---|---|
Brand New | $67 | $92 |
Flawless | $52 | $72 |
Good | $42 | $62 |
Average | $35 | $52 |
Fair | $25 | $37 |
Faulty | $13 | $19 |
HOW IT WORKS
Pick 64GB or 256GB, pick Unlocked or your carrier, and pick the grade that honestly matches the phone. Do the white screen check first if you have not already, because burn-in is the one thing on an iPhone X that quietly moves a clean-looking phone into Faulty. Whatever Buyback price you accept is yours for 14 days.
A prepaid USPS label arrives by email. Before you box it up, back up whatever you want to keep, then sign out of iCloud so Find My releases the phone, then erase it in Settings. Take the SIM card out and keep the tray in the phone. No charger, no case, no box needed.
We inspect the phone within 48 hours of it landing. If it is what you described, payment leaves the same day by gift card, PayPal, bank transfer or check. Every iPhone that reaches our facility gets a DoD-grade wipe on top of whatever you erased, including the ones we end up recycling instead of buying.
SPEC SHEET
Model numbers here come from Apple's own identify page. Yours is printed in tiny type on the back near the bottom, and it is also in Settings, General, About on the Model Number line.
| Apple's name for it | iPhone X, pronounced ten |
|---|---|
| Released | November 2017 |
| US model numbers | A1865 and A1901, two different phones sold side by side |
| A1865 | The CDMA version, sold through Verizon and Sprint, and the one sold SIM free |
| A1901 | GSM only, sold through AT&T and T-Mobile |
| Other regions | A1902 is the Japanese iPhone X and quotes here the same as the US ones |
| Display | 5.8-inch Super Retina OLED, 2436 by 1125 at 458 ppi. Apple's first OLED iPhone. |
| Chip | A11 Bionic |
| Storage we buy | 64GB and 256GB. There was no 128GB or 512GB iPhone X. |
| Rear cameras | Two, a 12MP wide and a 12MP telephoto, stacked vertically in the top left corner |
| Unlocking | Face ID. No Touch ID and no home button, this is the model where Apple dropped both. |
| Charging | Lightning port, plus wireless charging through the glass back |
| SIM | One physical nano-SIM in a tray on the right edge. No eSIM. The iPhone XS and XR were the first with eSIM. |
| Software ceiling | iOS 16 is as far as it goes. Apple stopped supporting the iPhone X at iOS 17. |
| Colors | Silver and Space Gray, and they pay the same |
IPHONE X BUYBACK QUESTIONS
Storage and condition, that is the whole calculation. A 256GB in Good shape is $62. The same phone at Fair is $37. A 64GB with a cracked screen still pays $13. Run yours through the quote tool at the top of the page for the exact figure.
They look almost identical, so check the back. The iPhone X has a shiny stainless steel band and its two rear lenses sit in a raised block on the left. The XS has the same shape but there is a gold finish option that the X never had, so if yours is gold it is an XS. The certain answer is the model number. A1865 or A1901 is an iPhone X. A1920 is an iPhone XS. If it turns out to be the newer one, the sell your iPhone XS page has its own prices, and they are higher.
Read the Model Number line in Settings, General, About, or squint at the small print on the back of the phone. A1865 is the CDMA iPhone X, which is what Verizon and Sprint sold and what Apple sold SIM free. A1901 is the GSM only version that went out through AT&T and T-Mobile. They are genuinely different hardware inside, which is unusual, but for selling purposes it makes no difference at all. Both are an iPhone X and both quote at the numbers on this page.
Burn-in is a permanent ghost of an image that stayed on screen too long. It happens on OLED panels and the iPhone X is the first iPhone with one, so it is the first iPhone this can happen to. After seven or eight years of the same status bar sitting in the same place, some of them have it.
Test it in a dim room. Brightness up, open something plain and white, then look across the screen at an angle rather than head on. A faint clock, a battery outline or the shape of the keyboard showing through the white is burn-in. Nothing showing means you are clear.
If it is there, the phone grades Faulty. That is not us being harsh, it is that a burned panel cannot be sold on as a working screen. It still has a price, and that price is on this page.
Yes. Any crack or chip, front glass, back glass or the little lens covers, puts the phone in Faulty. There is no size where a crack stops counting. A 64GB in that state is $13 and a 256GB is $19. Pick Faulty when you quote and nothing changes when it arrives here. The iPhone X has glass on both sides, so remember to turn it over before you decide.
It does, and on a phone this age it is worth checking before anything else. Under 80 percent maximum capacity the phone grades Faulty, and so does any phone showing a service battery message. Look in Settings, then Battery, then Battery Health and Charging. On software older than iOS 16.1 the same screen is just called Battery Health. Most iPhone X batteries that have never been changed are well under 80 by now, so do not assume a phone that still lasts a day is passing. It is one screen and it decides your row.
Then it is Faulty. Face ID that does not recognize you, or the message saying Face ID is not available, both count. The iPhone X has no Touch ID and no home button to fall back on, so the face sensors in the notch are the only unlocking hardware it has. If they are dead the phone cannot be resold as working. Try it before you quote rather than after you post it.
That one we cannot buy, and the reason is practical rather than fussy. With no power we cannot test anything and, more importantly, we cannot clear your data off it. Putting a price on a sealed box we cannot open is not something we are willing to do. What we will do is take it off your hands for nothing: send it on a free label and we will wipe it to DoD standards and recycle it properly, or say the word and we will mail it straight back to you, also free. Try a wall charger for half an hour first, because a completely flat iPhone X can look dead for a while before it wakes up.
Not while there is a balance on it. A phone still running on a carrier installment plan or a lease is under a financial obligation and we do not purchase devices under financial obligations. Clear the balance, own it outright, then quote it here like any other phone. Given the age of the iPhone X most of them are long since paid off, but it is worth a look at your carrier account if you are not sure.
No. Every grade on this page, right down to Faulty, needs a clean ESN. A phone reported lost or stolen, blocked by a carrier, or still tied to an Apple Account fails that check and we have to send it back. The Apple Account half is the one that catches people out, and it is entirely fixable: sign out of iCloud and erase the phone before you mail it, and the lock comes off with it.
Yes, and only downward. Unlocked is the top of the column on this model, so the prices in the grid are the best case. Verizon is the exception worth knowing: it pays exactly the same as unlocked at every grade and both capacities. AT&T sits below both. T-Mobile is lower still, and on the 64GB it is the lowest of the five options. Pick your real carrier in the quote tool so the offer matches the phone.
No. Apple only made the iPhone X in Silver and Space Gray, and they are worth the same to the dollar. Nobody pays a premium for either one.
Back up first if there is anything on there you want, then open Settings, tap your name at the top, scroll down and sign out. That is what releases Find My. Then Settings, General, Transfer or Reset iPhone, Erase All Content and Settings. It will ask for your Apple Account password and typing it in is the step that actually matters. Our erase your device page walks through it with screenshots if you would rather follow along. We run a DoD-grade wipe here as well, but do yours first, because a phone that arrives still signed in gets mailed back rather than paid for.
Four ways, and you pick when you check out. A gift card is emailed and comes out around 3 percent ahead of the others because the brands add a bonus on top. PayPal is instant, with PayPal's own 2.99 percent fee coming off it. A bank transfer takes 2 to 4 days. A check in the mail takes 3 to 5. All of them go out the same day your phone clears inspection. One exception: a Brand New sealed iPhone X is paid through PayPal only.
Depends what you mean by worth it. The numbers here start at $13 and stop at $92, and a realistic used one lands nearer the bottom than the top. Nobody is retiring on that. But the phone is stuck on iOS 16, it is not getting security updates any more, and it is doing nothing in a drawer. Free shipping, no fee to you, and a number held for 14 days. If it is too far gone to carry a price at all, recycling it through us costs nothing and it gets wiped either way.
Storage, carrier, condition. About a minute, and the price holds for 14 days.
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