Apple Trade In

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! class="ios-lab" | Operator
| class="ios-val" | [[Apple]]
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! class="ios-lab" | Type
| class="ios-val" | Device trade-in for credit · free recycling for everything else
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! class="ios-lab" | Where
| class="ios-val" | Apple Stores and online, credit instant or by gift card
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! class="ios-lab" | Recycling
| class="ios-val" | Daisy disassembly robots · material recovery program
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Apple Trade In is the ecosystem's exit ramp that leads back in: old devices become credit toward new ones at the counter or by mail, and anything worthless is recycled free. It quietly powers the upgrade economy — the sticker price of a new [[iPhone]] is, for millions, really the trade-in-adjusted one.

= Position =

The program doubles as environmental theater with real machinery behind it: Daisy, Apple's disassembly robot, strips hundreds of iPhones an hour into recoverable cobalt, rare earths, and gold, feeding the company's recycled-materials targets and its 2030 carbon-neutral pledge. Commercially it protects resale value, seeds refurbished markets Apple controls, and keeps used iPhones — the iPhone's own cheapest competitor — flowing through Apple's hands.

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