Apple’s Trade-In Program Takes Old Android Phones and Ten-Year-Old Macs Too

Apple’s trade-in program is usually discussed as an iPhone-only conversation. It is not. The values recorded across Apple’s own trade-in categories cover Mac, iPad, Apple Watch, and, less widely known, phones Apple did not build at all: Android devices from Google, Samsung and OnePlus.

Owners sitting on an old Apple Watch, an early iPad mini or a Samsung phone traded in as part of a switch to Apple are often unaware any of it qualifies for credit at all.

Key facts

What Apple’s trade-in program actually covers

Apple’s trade-in page does not restrict itself to Apple’s own newest hardware, or even to Apple hardware at all. The categories Apple credits run across iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple Watch, and Apple also records values for a short list of Android phones for anyone switching platforms. None of this appears as a published table on Apple’s own trade-in page. What exists is a set of individual values recorded for specific models, which should be read as figures recorded rather than something Apple states directly, since the only range Apple states in its own words covers iPhone 13 or later, at $175 to $885.

How old a device can still earn credit

On the Apple Watch side, the oldest models with a value recorded are Apple Watch Series 6 and the first-generation Apple Watch SE, both around a decade removed from Apple’s current Series 12 and Ultra 4. On the Mac side, the recorded values extend to iMac Pro, a line Apple has not sold new in years. None of these are large sums. The point is eligibility, not value: a device many owners assume is worthless to Apple still has a nonzero figure recorded against it.

The Android detail almost nobody expects

Apple’s trade-in program is often framed, correctly, as a way to move between Apple’s own generations. It is also, quietly, an on-ramp for anyone moving from Android to iPhone for the first time, without needing a third party to handle the old device. Apple has not published its own range statement for these Android values the way it has for iPhone; the figures above are values recorded for specific models rather than a table Apple prints.

Condition still decides the final number

Every figure in this article, across every category, is a maximum for a device in good working condition. Apple’s own wording for how a final number is reached is that it depends on the device, model, manufacturer and condition, and that a customer should answer the estimator’s questions accurately. A cracked screen, a swollen battery or a failed diagnostic test lowers the figure, sometimes far below the maximum recorded for that model, and Apple’s own trade-in page does not publish a separate table of deductions for any of these conditions.

Why the eligibility list matters more than any single figure

The practical lesson here is not that any of these devices are worth a specific amount. It is that Apple’s trade-in program does not stop at recent iPhone models, or even at Apple hardware. A device does not need to be a current iPhone 18 Pro, a recent iPhone Duo, or even an Apple product at all to be worth running through Apple’s estimator before it goes in a drawer.

What Apple has not said

Apple has not published a complete list of eligible Android models, has not stated a range for Mac, iPad, Apple Watch or Android trade-in the way it has for iPhone, and has not said how often the eligible list changes. As of Saturday, September 12, 2026, with iPhone 18 Pro pricing now live and the rest of the September lineup shipping September 18, the only reliable way to know whether a specific older device qualifies, and for how much, is to run it through Apple’s own trade-in estimator rather than assume it is not worth checking.