16 ways to use your old iPhone after you lot upgrade

Here are 16 means to utilize your erstwhile iPhone now you accept invested in a make-new smartphone.

Here are xvi ways to use your quondam iPhone now you lot have invested in a brand new smartphone.

You lot could sell yous old iPhone

Apple tree'south iPhones concur their value really well. A 2-year quondam unlocked iPhone 6S with 64GB chapters still fetches $200-plus at some reputable stores and volition likely yield even more than greenbacks if sold privately. Flipsy provides a useful online tool to assist you lot effigy out the value of your old device. Here'due south what to do before yous sell your old iPhone.

Or use your old iPhone every bit a music system

You can all the same use your iPhone if information technology doesn't have an agile SIM card inside information technology. When you do, y'all can hook it upward to your Wi-Fi network and your Apple Music, iTunes, Spotify, or any other music service you might desire to use, hook it upward to your system using Bluetooth or AirPlay, and use your old smartphone equally a shared music and radio playback system.

Or to help you brand your own music

Claw your iPhone up to a MIDI interface, then install your favorite amp emulation app and your old smartphone can become your very own guitar effects unit. The latest MIDI interfaces even hook up to the iPhone 7.

Perhaps it's a shared in-car reckoner?

While most iPhone users are probable to employ their current device to provide music and other playback in their motorcar, some may want to leave their old device permanently hooked up within their vehicle for audio playback. That way everyone who may bulldoze the car will exist able to share your precious Vanilla Ice B-sides collection.

Or keep the kids entertained

Put your old device into a tough case and install some of the latest kid's games on it, and you lot'll have an instant manner to proceed children entertained that doesn't involve them borrowing (and after smashing) the iPhone you use yourself.

Use your old iPhone for movies or equally a remote command

If yous use an Apple tree TV, and so you are probably a lilliputian frustrated at the continued lack of an Amazon Prime movie playback app on your favorite front room device.

Worry no more: Your sometime iPhone can become a brilliant movie playback device, every bit you can stream Amazon movies (and TV series) direct from the handset to your Apple TV using AirPlay.

This should work for any video app. Alternatively, just download the relevant remote command app for your television and use your old iPhone to command the Tv.

Or only us it as an Apple tree TV remote

Alternatively, merely keep your old iPhone around as a spare Apple Boob tube remote control using Control Middle.

Perhaps you want to exist more secure?

Your old iOS devices can become office of a network of remote abode security cameras. There are several available apps that can practise this, including Presence. It monitors your infinite and begins filming if motion is detected, notifying you lot at the same fourth dimension and then you lot can check to make sure miscreants aren't raiding your den.

Check on your baby

Explore the App Shop, and you'll notice apps such equally Cloud Baby Monitor, which may let yous utilise your old Apple smartphone equally a baby monitor, checking live video of your charges while they slumber and when they wail.

Employ your old iPhone in the kitchen

Practice y'all like to cook? Why non leave your old iPhone mounted in your kitchen and use the device as your recipe book and measurement calculator? That style yous can make certain the device you use never gets greasy, wet or dropped to peachy smithereens on your difficult kitchen floor. Activate "Hey Siri" on the device, and you won't even need to bear on your iPhone to get the recipes y'all need. And Safari integration between your deivces means you can detect recipes on your Mac or other iOS devices and so find the relevant page in Safari on your spare system.

Or use it every bit a telephone

And then long as it'due south on your WI-Fi network you can utilize your old iPhone as a spare telephone line effectually your home. Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, FaceTime and other services all permit you use your iPhone for phonation and video calls, but I quite like a lesser-known Skype feature that lets you hire a telephone number people can utilise to make voice calls to your Skype account from any telephone. This costs money, but information technology is a good style to employ your one-time iPhone as an part or domicile telephone organisation.

The camera that's e'er with yous

Have yous ever considered how little power your iPhone uses if it isn't using Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, or network coverage and isn't running any groundwork apps? That's why an old iPhone makes such a good spare camera, for backup or for use by friends or other family members. Yous can fill your device up with camera-related apps and dorsum all those images up to the advisable Photos collection once y'all get the device dorsum to Wi-Fi. (You can even claw it up using the Hotspot feature on the iPhone you use if yous desire to share those images fast.)

Your erstwhile iPhone can become a traveler's assist

If you are traveling, information technology may make sense to put a pay-as-you-become SIM for the country you are visiting inside your one-time iPhone. Y'all'll salvage a picayune money when taking and making calls and be able to use location services at lower cost. And y'all tin exit your current device safely in the hotel rubber while you get to know your way effectually the place you are in. Some travelers may prefer keeping a spare device for utilise when traveling in order to protect enterprise or personal data from prying optics at clearing control when visiting some countries.

Use your old iPhone on your bicycle

Do yous actually want to use your valuable iPhone 8 Plus as a cycle computer, running the run a risk of rain, mud, vibration or other forms of damage? Probably not — but with apps like Runtastic Mount Bike or Strava installed on your quondam iPhone mounted on your handlebars and your current device safely in your pocket providing a Hotspot, you get all the advantages of a full cyclist'southward reckoner while keeping your device safe.

Apply your old iPhone as a fill-in drive

You can also use your sometime iPhone every bit a backup device. Empty it of everything you don't demand and install the complimentary USB Flash Drive app, and you have a Wi-Fi connected flash drive to utilize equally fill-in storage. It'south kind of cool considering it also integrates with 3rd-party file storage services, including iCloud Drive and Dropbox. Yous can too employ it to play a broad number of different video formats.

One more than thing...

You tin sell your old device if you want to, simply take you considered donating it? You tin can gift it to friends and family unit, or visit sites such equally American Cellphone Bulldoze or Medic Mobile to explore different ways your old smartphone could make a positive difference.

Got any more ideas of what to practise with an onetime iPhone? Do let the states know.

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Jonny is a freelance writer who has been writing (mainly nigh Apple and technology) since 1999.

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