Apple raises trade-in values for most iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Watch models

Apple raised trade-in values for most iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Watch models, and for select Android phones. The change is a broad adjustment across Apple’s own line and a limited set of competing handsets, not a one-device promo.

Trade-in pricing sits at the handoff between device condition checks, residual-value tables, and upgrade checkout. Higher credits change the net price of a new purchase without changing list prices. Because the program covers phones, tablets, computers, and watches plus some Android units, the same residual logic now spans more device classes and more of the install base that might enter an Apple upgrade path.

For engineers and builders, residual value is part of total cost of ownership for fleets, labs, and personal upgrade cycles. A higher credit shortens the gap between “keep the old unit” and “refresh,” which can shift when teams retire hardware, how they budget refresh waves, and whether mixed Android–Apple shops route older phones into Apple’s trade channel instead of secondary markets or internal reuse.

In the market, trade-in credit is a quiet lever next to carrier subsidies and third-party buyback sites. Raising values on most of Apple’s own devices, and on select Android phones, tightens competition with those channels on used inventory and on the effective cost of switching or staying in the ecosystem. The Android inclusion matters because it treats non-Apple handsets as fuel for Apple’s upgrade funnel, not only as lost customers.

Watch how the new tables land against carrier and independent buyback offers on the same models, and whether the higher credits hold only for a short promo window or become the new baseline. For anyone planning a refresh, re-run the net cost with the updated Apple credit before assuming last quarter’s trade-in math still applies.