The $1,200 headline deal comes with strings. Here is what AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon actually pay on each plan, and what Apple gives with no carrier.
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Locked or Unlocked iPhone 18 Pro: What Apple Publishes, and What No Carrier Will Confirm
Apple sells iPhone 18 Pro with a “Connect on your own later” option, and the $1,199 to $2,399 prices on its Store page are the prices for that unattached configuration. Picking a carrier in the same checkout does not change what you pay Apple. It changes what you are committed to afterwards. iPhone 18 Pro…
Five US States Charge No Sales Tax on an iPhone, and Only Three Are Tax-Free Everywhere
Five American states charge no statewide sales tax: Alaska, Delaware, Montana, New Hampshire and Oregon. On a $1,199 iPhone 18 Pro, an 8 percent rate comes to $95.92, so where no sales tax is charged the saving is roughly the same size as the $100 Apple added to its older iPhones this month. iPhone 18…
Apple Trade In, Carrier Credit or Selling It Yourself: What Your Old iPhone Is Really Worth Now
Your old iPhone is worth three different numbers this week, and only one of them is money that comes off the price of an iPhone 18 Pro on the day you buy it. Apple credits $175 to $885 instantly, a US carrier advertises up to $1,200 but pays it as bill credits over 24 to…
iPhone 18 Pro Carrier Credits: What You Forfeit If You Leave Before 36 Months
A carrier credit on an iPhone 18 Pro is not a discount you receive at checkout. It is a queue of monthly bill credits, and the ones that have not arrived yet are exactly what you leave behind if you switch carrier, change to a plan that no longer qualifies, or settle the phone early.…
Apple No Longer Sells the iPhone 17 Pro: What to Buy Instead Now Older iPhones Cost $100 More
The oldest trick in iPhone buying, waiting for the new Pro so you can pick up last year’s Pro cheaply, does not work in 2026. Apple has stopped selling iPhone 17 Pro and iPhone 17 Pro Max, and the four older iPhones it kept are each listed $100 higher on its store than they were…
Apple Trade In or Sell It Yourself for an iPhone Duo? The Number You Have to Beat
Apple will credit $175 to $885 against a new iPhone for an iPhone 13 or later, and it applies that credit instantly at the point of sale. Selling the same phone yourself has no published price, so the only useful way to compare the two is to treat Apple’s number as the figure a private…
iPhone Duo at $1,999: Will It Ever Go on Sale, and What Apple Did to iPhone Prices in 2026
Apple has published no discount of any kind on iPhone Duo, and the only time Apple moved iPhone prices in 2026 it moved them up. Four older iPhones went up $100 each on September 9, which is the exact opposite of the pattern that makes waiting for a price cut look sensible. The 7.6-inch inner…
The Cheapest Way to Buy iPhone Duo: Every Route Apple Publishes, Ranked in Dollars
iPhone Duo costs $1,999 for 256GB and $3,199 for 2TB, and only three published routes take money off those numbers: Apple Trade In, the Veterans and Military Purchase Program, and Daily Cash on an Apple Card. Everything else Apple offers changes when you pay rather than how much you pay. iPhone Duo pairs a 7.6-inch…