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<span style="color: #555; font-weight: bold;" darkstyle="color: var(--wiki-muted);">Your new superpower.</span>
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| style="width: 16.7%; background-color: #bf0013; color: #fff;" | '''RED'''
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| style="width: 16.7%; background-color: #232a31; color: #fff;" | '''Midnight'''
| style="width: 16.6%; background-color: #276787; color: #fff;" | '''Blue'''
| style="width: 16.6%; background-color: #faddd7; color: #000;" | '''Pink'''
| style="width: 16.7%; background-color: #394c38; color: #fff;" | '''Green'''
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| colspan="6" style="background-color: #333; padding: 8px;" | [https://support.apple.com/en-us/111873 <span style="color: #fff;">iPhone 13 mini — Technical Specifications (Apple Support)</span>]
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{{iPhone lineup Navbox}}

The iPhone 13 mini is a [[smartphone]] designed and marketed by [[Apple|Apple]], announced on September 14, 2021, and released on September 24, 2021 — the second and final small model in the modern lineup, succeeding the [[iPhone 12 mini]]. It addressed the first mini's one real flaw head-on: a redesigned interior and the A15's efficiency stretched battery life by a claimed hour and a half, moving the mini from "charge by dinner" to genuinely all-day for its light-usage audience.

Otherwise it tracked the [[iPhone 13]] exactly — the 20% smaller notch, the diagonal dual-camera with the [[iPhone 12 Pro Max]]'s big sensor and sensor-shift stabilization, Cinematic mode video, 128 GB base storage — at the same $699 the 12 mini launched at, in the generation's warmer palette.

Committed production plans, not sales, had secured the mini's second year; the market's answer hadn't changed, and when the [[iPhone 14]] generation arrived the small slot became a big one — the mini's replacement was the 6.7-inch [[iPhone 14 Plus]]. The 13 mini stayed on as a discounted option until September 2023, the last small iPhone.

= Design =

Identical footprint to the 12 mini — 131.5 × 64.2 mm, now 7.65 mm and 141 g — with the generation's two visible changes: the TrueDepth notch narrowed 20%, and the two rear lenses rearranged diagonally to fit the larger stabilized sensor. Five launch colors (Pink, Blue, Midnight, Starlight, RED) plus the spring Green; Ceramic Shield; IP68 at six meters; MagSafe.

= Hardware =

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| style="text-align: left;" | [[Apple|Apple]]
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| style="text-align: left;" | 15th
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! style="color: #555; text-align: left;" darkstyle="color: var(--wiki-color);" | Announced
| style="text-align: left;" | September 14, 2021
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! style="color: #555; text-align: left;" darkstyle="color: var(--wiki-color);" | Released
| style="text-align: left;" | September 24, 2021
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! style="color: #555; text-align: left;" darkstyle="color: var(--wiki-color);" | Discontinued
| style="text-align: left;" | September 12, 2023
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! style="color: #555; text-align: left;" darkstyle="color: var(--wiki-color);" | Predecessor
| style="text-align: left;" | [[iPhone 12 mini]]
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! style="color: #555; text-align: left;" darkstyle="color: var(--wiki-color);" | Related
| style="text-align: left;" | [[iPhone 13]] · [[iPhone 13 Pro]] · [[iPhone 13 Pro Max]]
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! style="color: #555; text-align: left;" darkstyle="color: var(--wiki-color);" | Successor
| style="text-align: left;" | — (size class retired; [[iPhone 14 Plus]] took the slot)
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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 A15|Apple A15 Bionic]]<br>(2 + 4 cores · 4-core GPU<br>· 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;" | 128 GB · 256 GB · 512 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, sensor-shift OIS<br>+ 12 MP ultra-wide, f/2.4<br>Cinematic mode · Photographic Styles
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! style="color: #555; text-align: left;" darkstyle="color: var(--wiki-color);" | Front camera
| style="text-align: left;" | 12 MP TrueDepth
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! style="color: #555; text-align: left;" darkstyle="color: var(--wiki-color);" | Battery
| style="text-align: left;" | 2,438 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 · 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;" | (PRODUCT)RED · Starlight · Midnight · Blue · Pink<br>(+ Green from March 2022)
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! style="color: #555; text-align: left;" darkstyle="color: var(--wiki-color);" | Launch price
| style="text-align: left;" | $699 (128 GB) · $799 (256 GB) · $999 (512 GB)
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! style="color: #555; text-align: left;" darkstyle="color: var(--wiki-color);" | OS
| style="text-align: left;" | iOS 15.0 ~ current
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The A15 Bionic and a battery grown to 2,438 mAh (plus a display drawing less at typical brightness) delivered the endurance fix — reviewers measured ninety minutes to two hours over the 12 mini, converting most of the first mini's skeptics. Storage doubled to a 128 GB base across the generation.

= Camera =

The mini inherited flagship-grade hardware: the 1.7µ big-pixel main sensor and sensor-shift stabilization that had been the [[iPhone 12 Pro Max]]'s headline exclusive twelve months earlier. Cinematic mode — rack-focus video with editable focus after the fact — and Photographic Styles (persistent, tone-preserving looks) arrived with the generation. For its size class the 13 mini's camera had, and has, no peer.

= Software =

Shipped with iOS 15 (Focus modes, Live Text, SharePlay); current release train since.

= Release and reception =

Reviews called it the small phone perfected — the battery objection answered, the camera above its weight, the price unchanged — and repeated the commercial prediction that had haunted the 12 mini. Correctly: the mini share of the generation stayed in single digits, and no 14 mini followed. Price-cut to $599, it continued alongside the 14 generation until September 12, 2023, and its discontinuation ended the small iPhone outright.

= Legacy =

The 13 mini is the small phone's finished argument — everything its audience asked for, delivered twice, declined by the market twice. It closed a form-factor lineage running back to the original [[iPhone (1st generation)|iPhone]], and it remains the reference point every "why don't they make small phones?" thread cites. The compact slot's spiritual successor became price, not size: the [[iPhone SE]] then, the [[iPhone 17e]] now.

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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 13 mini</div> <span style="color: #555; font-weight: bold;" darkstyle="color: var(--wiki-muted);">Your new superpower.</span> |- | colspan="6" style="padding: 0;" | <div style="max-width: 300px; margin: 5px auto;">![[iphone_13_mini.webp]]</div> |- | style="width: 16.7%; background-color: #bf0013; color: #fff;" | '''RED''' | style="width: 16.7%; background-color: #faf6f2; color: #000;" | '''Starlight''' | style="width: 16.7%; background-color: #232a31; color: #fff;" | '''Midnight''' | style="width: 16.6%; background-color: #276787; color: #fff;" | '''Blue''' | style="width: 16.6%; background-color: #faddd7; color: #000;" | '''Pink''' | style="width: 16.7%; background-color: #394c38; color: #fff;" | '''Green''' |- | colspan="6" style="background-color: #333; padding: 8px;" | [https://support.apple.com/en-us/111873 <span style="color: #fff;">iPhone 13 mini — Technical Specifications (Apple Support)</span>] |} {{iPhone lineup Navbox}} The iPhone 13 mini is a [[smartphone]] designed and marketed by [[Apple|Apple]], announced on September 14, 2021, and released on September 24, 2021 — the second and final small model in the modern lineup, succeeding the [[iPhone 12 mini]]. It addressed the first mini's one real flaw head-on: a redesigned interior and the A15's efficiency stretched battery life by a claimed hour and a half, moving the mini from "charge by dinner" to genuinely all-day for its light-usage audience. Otherwise it tracked the [[iPhone 13]] exactly — the 20% smaller notch, the diagonal dual-camera with the [[iPhone 12 Pro Max]]'s big sensor and sensor-shift stabilization, Cinematic mode video, 128 GB base storage — at the same $699 the 12 mini launched at, in the generation's warmer palette. Committed production plans, not sales, had secured the mini's second year; the market's answer hadn't changed, and when the [[iPhone 14]] generation arrived the small slot became a big one — the mini's replacement was the 6.7-inch [[iPhone 14 Plus]]. The 13 mini stayed on as a discounted option until September 2023, the last small iPhone. = Design = Identical footprint to the 12 mini — 131.5 × 64.2 mm, now 7.65 mm and 141 g — with the generation's two visible changes: the TrueDepth notch narrowed 20%, and the two rear lenses rearranged diagonally to fit the larger stabilized sensor. Five launch colors (Pink, Blue, Midnight, Starlight, RED) plus the spring Green; Ceramic Shield; IP68 at six meters; MagSafe. = 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;" | 15th |- ! style="color: #555; text-align: left;" darkstyle="color: var(--wiki-color);" | Announced | style="text-align: left;" | September 14, 2021 |- ! style="color: #555; text-align: left;" darkstyle="color: var(--wiki-color);" | Released | style="text-align: left;" | September 24, 2021 |- ! style="color: #555; text-align: left;" darkstyle="color: var(--wiki-color);" | Discontinued | style="text-align: left;" | September 12, 2023 |- ! style="color: #555; text-align: left;" darkstyle="color: var(--wiki-color);" | Predecessor | style="text-align: left;" | [[iPhone 12 mini]] |- ! style="color: #555; text-align: left;" darkstyle="color: var(--wiki-color);" | Related | style="text-align: left;" | [[iPhone 13]] · [[iPhone 13 Pro]] · [[iPhone 13 Pro Max]] |- ! style="color: #555; text-align: left;" darkstyle="color: var(--wiki-color);" | Successor | style="text-align: left;" | — (size class retired; [[iPhone 14 Plus]] took the slot) |- ! 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 A15|Apple A15 Bionic]]<br>(2 + 4 cores · 4-core GPU<br>· 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;" | 128 GB · 256 GB · 512 GB |- ! style="color: #555; text-align: left;" darkstyle="color: var(--wiki-color);" | Rear cameras | style="text-align: left;" | 12 MP wide, f/1.6, sensor-shift OIS<br>+ 12 MP ultra-wide, f/2.4<br>Cinematic mode · Photographic Styles |- ! style="color: #555; text-align: left;" darkstyle="color: var(--wiki-color);" | Front camera | style="text-align: left;" | 12 MP TrueDepth |- ! style="color: #555; text-align: left;" darkstyle="color: var(--wiki-color);" | Battery | style="text-align: left;" | 2,438 mAh · MagSafe 12 W · Qi |- ! style="color: #555; text-align: left;" darkstyle="color: var(--wiki-color);" | Connectivity | style="text-align: left;" | 5G · Wi-Fi 6 · Bluetooth 5.0 |- ! style="color: #555; text-align: left;" darkstyle="color: var(--wiki-color);" | Colors | style="text-align: left;" | (PRODUCT)RED · Starlight · Midnight · Blue · Pink<br>(+ Green from March 2022) |- ! style="color: #555; text-align: left;" darkstyle="color: var(--wiki-color);" | Launch price | style="text-align: left;" | $699 (128 GB) · $799 (256 GB) · $999 (512 GB) |- ! style="color: #555; text-align: left;" darkstyle="color: var(--wiki-color);" | OS | style="text-align: left;" | iOS 15.0 ~ current |} The A15 Bionic and a battery grown to 2,438 mAh (plus a display drawing less at typical brightness) delivered the endurance fix — reviewers measured ninety minutes to two hours over the 12 mini, converting most of the first mini's skeptics. Storage doubled to a 128 GB base across the generation. = Camera = The mini inherited flagship-grade hardware: the 1.7µ big-pixel main sensor and sensor-shift stabilization that had been the [[iPhone 12 Pro Max]]'s headline exclusive twelve months earlier. Cinematic mode — rack-focus video with editable focus after the fact — and Photographic Styles (persistent, tone-preserving looks) arrived with the generation. For its size class the 13 mini's camera had, and has, no peer. = Software = Shipped with iOS 15 (Focus modes, Live Text, SharePlay); current release train since. = Release and reception = Reviews called it the small phone perfected — the battery objection answered, the camera above its weight, the price unchanged — and repeated the commercial prediction that had haunted the 12 mini. Correctly: the mini share of the generation stayed in single digits, and no 14 mini followed. Price-cut to $599, it continued alongside the 14 generation until September 12, 2023, and its discontinuation ended the small iPhone outright. = Legacy = The 13 mini is the small phone's finished argument — everything its audience asked for, delivered twice, declined by the market twice. It closed a form-factor lineage running back to the original [[iPhone (1st generation)|iPhone]], and it remains the reference point every "why don't they make small phones?" thread cites. The compact slot's spiritual successor became price, not size: the [[iPhone SE]] then, the [[iPhone 17e]] now.