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<span style="color: #555; font-weight: bold;" darkstyle="color: var(--wiki-muted);">Blast past fast.</span>
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| colspan="6" style="background-color: #333; padding: 8px;" | [https://support.apple.com/en-us/111877 <span style="color: #fff;">iPhone 12 mini — Technical Specifications (Apple Support)</span>]
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{{iPhone lineup Navbox}}

The iPhone 12 mini is a [[smartphone]] designed and marketed by [[Apple|Apple]], announced on October 13, 2020, and released on November 13, 2020, as the smallest member of the four-model iPhone 12 generation. It compressed the generation's complete flagship kit — flat-edged design, Super Retina XDR OLED, A14 Bionic, 5G, Ceramic Shield, MagSafe, dual camera with Night mode — into a 5.4-inch, 135-gram body smaller than the old 4.7-inch Home-button iPhones, with zero feature cuts from the 6.1-inch iPhone 12 and a $699 price $100 below it.

Small-phone devotees had spent years asking for exactly this, and reviewers adored it — then almost nobody bought it. The mini settled around five percent of generation sales, was repeated once (as the [[iPhone 13 mini]]) on committed production plans, and the size was retired: a beloved product and a market verdict in one.

= Design =

The 12 generation returned to flat aluminum sides — the [[iPhone 5]]/SE language stretched to the all-screen era — and the mini was its most concentrated expression: 131.5 × 64.2 × 7.4 mm, pocketable and one-hand-typable in a way no notch-era iPhone had been. The 5.4-inch OLED (2340 × 1080, 476 ppi — the sharpest iPhone panel) kept the full notch, squeezing the display's usable area slightly. Ceramic Shield — ceramic-crystal-infused cover glass co-developed with Corning, rated at four times better drop performance — fronted the whole generation, and the MagSafe magnet ring in the back enabled snap-on chargers and accessories at 12 W (versus 15 W on larger models, one of the mini's two real compromises).

= Hardware =

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| style="text-align: left;" | [[Apple|Apple]]
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! style="color: #555; text-align: left;" darkstyle="color: var(--wiki-color);" | Generation
| style="text-align: left;" | 14th
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! style="color: #555; text-align: left;" darkstyle="color: var(--wiki-color);" | Announced
| style="text-align: left;" | October 13, 2020
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! style="color: #555; text-align: left;" darkstyle="color: var(--wiki-color);" | Released
| style="text-align: left;" | November 13, 2020
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! style="color: #555; text-align: left;" darkstyle="color: var(--wiki-color);" | Discontinued
| style="text-align: left;" | September 7, 2022
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! style="color: #555; text-align: left;" darkstyle="color: var(--wiki-color);" | Predecessor
| style="text-align: left;" | — (new size class)
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! style="color: #555; text-align: left;" darkstyle="color: var(--wiki-color);" | Related
| style="text-align: left;" | [[iPhone 12]] · [[iPhone 12 Pro]] · [[iPhone 12 Pro Max]]
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! style="color: #555; text-align: left;" darkstyle="color: var(--wiki-color);" | Successor
| style="text-align: left;" | [[iPhone 13 mini]]
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! style="color: #555; text-align: left;" darkstyle="color: var(--wiki-color);" | Display
| style="text-align: left;" | 5.4-inch Super Retina XDR OLED<br>2340 × 1080 (476 ppi)<br>HDR · True Tone · Ceramic Shield
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! style="color: #555; text-align: left;" darkstyle="color: var(--wiki-color);" | Chip
| style="text-align: left;" | [[Apple A14|Apple A14 Bionic]]<br>(first 5 nm chip · 16-core Neural Engine)
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! style="color: #555; text-align: left;" darkstyle="color: var(--wiki-color);" | RAM
| style="text-align: left;" | 4 GB
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! style="color: #555; text-align: left;" darkstyle="color: var(--wiki-color);" | Storage
| style="text-align: left;" | 64 GB · 128 GB · 256 GB
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! style="color: #555; text-align: left;" darkstyle="color: var(--wiki-color);" | Rear cameras
| style="text-align: left;" | 12 MP wide, f/1.6, OIS<br>+ 12 MP ultra-wide, f/2.4<br>Night mode (all cameras) · Dolby Vision HDR
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! style="color: #555; text-align: left;" darkstyle="color: var(--wiki-color);" | Front camera
| style="text-align: left;" | 12 MP TrueDepth · Night mode
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! style="color: #555; text-align: left;" darkstyle="color: var(--wiki-color);" | Battery
| style="text-align: left;" | 2,227 mAh · MagSafe (12 W) · Qi
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! style="color: #555; text-align: left;" darkstyle="color: var(--wiki-color);" | Connectivity
| style="text-align: left;" | 5G (sub-6 GHz; + mmWave in US)<br>Wi-Fi 6 · Bluetooth 5.0
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! style="color: #555; text-align: left;" darkstyle="color: var(--wiki-color);" | Colors
| style="text-align: left;" | Black · White · (PRODUCT)RED · Green · Blue<br>(+ Purple from April 2021)
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! style="color: #555; text-align: left;" darkstyle="color: var(--wiki-color);" | Launch price
| style="text-align: left;" | $699 (64 GB) · $749 (128 GB) · $849 (256 GB)
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! style="color: #555; text-align: left;" darkstyle="color: var(--wiki-color);" | OS
| style="text-align: left;" | iOS 14.1 ~ current
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The A14 Bionic — the first 5-nanometer chip in any phone — and full 5G (including mmWave in US models) came without any small-body detuning; benchmarks matched the Pro Max. The compromises were physical: the 2,227 mAh battery delivered the generation's shortest endurance (a real regression for heavy users, adequate for the light-use audience the size attracted), and the earpiece speaker gave up some stereo separation.

Like the whole 12 generation, the mini shipped without a charger or EarPods in the box — Apple's environmental framing of the removal drew a year of debate and, eventually, industry-wide imitation.

= Camera =

The dual system matched the [[iPhone 12]] exactly: the faster f/1.6 wide lens (27% more light), the ultra-wide, Night mode extended to every camera including the front, Deep Fusion everywhere, and Dolby Vision HDR video recording — a world first the 12 generation shared. Nothing about the camera said "small model," which was precisely the pitch.

= Software =

Shipped with iOS 14.1 — widgets on the home screen, the App Library — and remains on the current release train. MagSafe accessories launched alongside, the mini getting its own smaller case and charger lineup.

= Release and reception =

The mini launched three weeks behind the 12/12 Pro in the generation's staggered, pandemic-delayed rollout. Reviews were love letters: "the small phone we've begged for," full-flagship guts, the best one-handed phone in a decade — with the battery the honest caveat. The market answered differently: an estimated five to six percent of generation sales, production reportedly cut within months and reallocated to the Pro models. It fell to $599 on the 13's arrival and was discontinued on September 7, 2022.

= Legacy =

The 12 mini answered a question the industry had argued for years — would people actually buy a no-compromise small flagship? — with a definitive, melancholy no. Its one repeat, the [[iPhone 13 mini]], closed the experiment; the "small" slot in Apple's lineup reverted to the cheaper-not-smaller [[iPhone SE]] and its successors. Among its fans it achieved cult status instantly and holds it still, the last truly small iPhone.

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{| style="width: 100%; border: 2px solid #333; text-align: center;" darkstyle="border-color: #48484a;" |- | colspan="6" style="padding: 28px 20px 42px;" | <div style="font: bold 2em/1.2 -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'SF Pro Display', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: var(--wiki-color); margin-bottom: 0.8em;">iPhone 12 mini</div> <span style="color: #555; font-weight: bold;" darkstyle="color: var(--wiki-muted);">Blast past fast.</span> |- | colspan="6" style="padding: 0;" | <div style="max-width: 300px; margin: 5px auto;">![[iphone_12_mini.webp]]</div> |- | style="width: 16.7%; background-color: #25212b; color: #fff;" | '''Black''' | style="width: 16.7%; background-color: #f6f2ef; color: #000;" | '''White''' | style="width: 16.7%; background-color: #d82e2e; color: #fff;" | '''RED''' | style="width: 16.6%; background-color: #d8efd5; color: #000;" | '''Green''' | style="width: 16.6%; background-color: #023b63; color: #fff;" | '''Blue''' | style="width: 16.7%; background-color: #b7afe6; color: #000;" | '''Purple''' |- | colspan="6" style="background-color: #333; padding: 8px;" | [https://support.apple.com/en-us/111877 <span style="color: #fff;">iPhone 12 mini — Technical Specifications (Apple Support)</span>] |} {{iPhone lineup Navbox}} The iPhone 12 mini is a [[smartphone]] designed and marketed by [[Apple|Apple]], announced on October 13, 2020, and released on November 13, 2020, as the smallest member of the four-model iPhone 12 generation. It compressed the generation's complete flagship kit — flat-edged design, Super Retina XDR OLED, A14 Bionic, 5G, Ceramic Shield, MagSafe, dual camera with Night mode — into a 5.4-inch, 135-gram body smaller than the old 4.7-inch Home-button iPhones, with zero feature cuts from the 6.1-inch iPhone 12 and a $699 price $100 below it. Small-phone devotees had spent years asking for exactly this, and reviewers adored it — then almost nobody bought it. The mini settled around five percent of generation sales, was repeated once (as the [[iPhone 13 mini]]) on committed production plans, and the size was retired: a beloved product and a market verdict in one. = Design = The 12 generation returned to flat aluminum sides — the [[iPhone 5]]/SE language stretched to the all-screen era — and the mini was its most concentrated expression: 131.5 × 64.2 × 7.4 mm, pocketable and one-hand-typable in a way no notch-era iPhone had been. The 5.4-inch OLED (2340 × 1080, 476 ppi — the sharpest iPhone panel) kept the full notch, squeezing the display's usable area slightly. Ceramic Shield — ceramic-crystal-infused cover glass co-developed with Corning, rated at four times better drop performance — fronted the whole generation, and the MagSafe magnet ring in the back enabled snap-on chargers and accessories at 12 W (versus 15 W on larger models, one of the mini's two real compromises). = Hardware = {| style="max-width: 500px; border: 2px solid #555; text-align: center;" darkstyle="border-color: #48484a;" |- ! style="color: #555; text-align: left; width: 22%;" darkstyle="color: var(--wiki-color);" | Developer | style="text-align: left;" | [[Apple|Apple]] |- ! style="color: #555; text-align: left;" darkstyle="color: var(--wiki-color);" | Generation | style="text-align: left;" | 14th |- ! style="color: #555; text-align: left;" darkstyle="color: var(--wiki-color);" | Announced | style="text-align: left;" | October 13, 2020 |- ! style="color: #555; text-align: left;" darkstyle="color: var(--wiki-color);" | Released | style="text-align: left;" | November 13, 2020 |- ! style="color: #555; text-align: left;" darkstyle="color: var(--wiki-color);" | Discontinued | style="text-align: left;" | September 7, 2022 |- ! style="color: #555; text-align: left;" darkstyle="color: var(--wiki-color);" | Predecessor | style="text-align: left;" | — (new size class) |- ! style="color: #555; text-align: left;" darkstyle="color: var(--wiki-color);" | Related | style="text-align: left;" | [[iPhone 12]] · [[iPhone 12 Pro]] · [[iPhone 12 Pro Max]] |- ! style="color: #555; text-align: left;" darkstyle="color: var(--wiki-color);" | Successor | style="text-align: left;" | [[iPhone 13 mini]] |- ! style="color: #555; text-align: left;" darkstyle="color: var(--wiki-color);" | Display | style="text-align: left;" | 5.4-inch Super Retina XDR OLED<br>2340 × 1080 (476 ppi)<br>HDR · True Tone · Ceramic Shield |- ! style="color: #555; text-align: left;" darkstyle="color: var(--wiki-color);" | Chip | style="text-align: left;" | [[Apple A14|Apple A14 Bionic]]<br>(first 5 nm chip · 16-core Neural Engine) |- ! style="color: #555; text-align: left;" darkstyle="color: var(--wiki-color);" | RAM | style="text-align: left;" | 4 GB |- ! style="color: #555; text-align: left;" darkstyle="color: var(--wiki-color);" | Storage | style="text-align: left;" | 64 GB · 128 GB · 256 GB |- ! style="color: #555; text-align: left;" darkstyle="color: var(--wiki-color);" | Rear cameras | style="text-align: left;" | 12 MP wide, f/1.6, OIS<br>+ 12 MP ultra-wide, f/2.4<br>Night mode (all cameras) · Dolby Vision HDR |- ! style="color: #555; text-align: left;" darkstyle="color: var(--wiki-color);" | Front camera | style="text-align: left;" | 12 MP TrueDepth · Night mode |- ! style="color: #555; text-align: left;" darkstyle="color: var(--wiki-color);" | Battery | style="text-align: left;" | 2,227 mAh · MagSafe (12 W) · Qi |- ! style="color: #555; text-align: left;" darkstyle="color: var(--wiki-color);" | Connectivity | style="text-align: left;" | 5G (sub-6 GHz; + mmWave in US)<br>Wi-Fi 6 · Bluetooth 5.0 |- ! style="color: #555; text-align: left;" darkstyle="color: var(--wiki-color);" | Colors | style="text-align: left;" | Black · White · (PRODUCT)RED · Green · Blue<br>(+ Purple from April 2021) |- ! style="color: #555; text-align: left;" darkstyle="color: var(--wiki-color);" | Launch price | style="text-align: left;" | $699 (64 GB) · $749 (128 GB) · $849 (256 GB) |- ! style="color: #555; text-align: left;" darkstyle="color: var(--wiki-color);" | OS | style="text-align: left;" | iOS 14.1 ~ current |} The A14 Bionic — the first 5-nanometer chip in any phone — and full 5G (including mmWave in US models) came without any small-body detuning; benchmarks matched the Pro Max. The compromises were physical: the 2,227 mAh battery delivered the generation's shortest endurance (a real regression for heavy users, adequate for the light-use audience the size attracted), and the earpiece speaker gave up some stereo separation. Like the whole 12 generation, the mini shipped without a charger or EarPods in the box — Apple's environmental framing of the removal drew a year of debate and, eventually, industry-wide imitation. = Camera = The dual system matched the [[iPhone 12]] exactly: the faster f/1.6 wide lens (27% more light), the ultra-wide, Night mode extended to every camera including the front, Deep Fusion everywhere, and Dolby Vision HDR video recording — a world first the 12 generation shared. Nothing about the camera said "small model," which was precisely the pitch. = Software = Shipped with iOS 14.1 — widgets on the home screen, the App Library — and remains on the current release train. MagSafe accessories launched alongside, the mini getting its own smaller case and charger lineup. = Release and reception = The mini launched three weeks behind the 12/12 Pro in the generation's staggered, pandemic-delayed rollout. Reviews were love letters: "the small phone we've begged for," full-flagship guts, the best one-handed phone in a decade — with the battery the honest caveat. The market answered differently: an estimated five to six percent of generation sales, production reportedly cut within months and reallocated to the Pro models. It fell to $599 on the 13's arrival and was discontinued on September 7, 2022. = Legacy = The 12 mini answered a question the industry had argued for years — would people actually buy a no-compromise small flagship? — with a definitive, melancholy no. Its one repeat, the [[iPhone 13 mini]], closed the experiment; the "small" slot in Apple's lineup reverted to the cheaper-not-smaller [[iPhone SE]] and its successors. Among its fans it achieved cult status instantly and holds it still, the last truly small iPhone.