Sell your broken
iPhone 14 Pro Max.
A 128 GB with a faulty display is £141, which is 59 per cent of what we pay for the same phone in one piece. An iPhone 14 Pro Max is expensive enough that a broken screen is an inconvenience to the price rather than the end of it.
Condition
What counts as Picture fine
- ✓Original screen, picture perfect
- ✓Touch works everywhere on the screen
- ✓Front or back glass cracked or smashed
- ✓A dent, a broken camera or speaker, Face ID not working
- ✓Any battery health
- ✗Lines, bleeding, blank patches or dead touch: Faulty, screen broken
- ✗A replacement screen, however good: Faulty, screen broken
- ✗Will not switch on or charge: we cannot buy it
Our bench checks every phone against the grade you chose. If it does not match, you get a revised price to accept or decline, with a free return either way.
Storage
- Paid by bank transfer within 48 hours of it arriving, Monday to Friday
- Post it today at any Post Office, no pack needed
- Price locked for 10 days once you order
- Change your mind after our check? We send it back free
- Read our reviews on Trustpilot
What the damage costs you
Start at £240, which is what a perfect 128 GB fetches. Break the glass and leave the picture alone and you are at £220, down £20. Break the picture, so lines or blotches or nothing at all, and you are at £141, down £99 from where you started. Cracked glass over a working picture is close to free here, which is not true at most places you could send it.
Shown for the 128 GB, the smallest this model came in, so nothing here is higher than the phone you have. On a panel this good a fault is obvious once you look: a green or pink cast, a band that will not refresh, or a line that stays put while everything else moves. If you cannot tell, pick the lower grade: a phone that turns out better than you described is upgraded at the bench. Our three grades, explained properly.
Where the iPhone 14 Pro Max sits
That makes the iPhone 14 Pro Max a little above the middle of our range. 12 of the 32 iPhones on this list come through damage better than that, and 19 come through it worse.
Run the same sum over all 32 of them and a shape appears. Under £50 working, a faulty picture leaves about 41 per cent. At £120 and up it leaves about 57 per cent. The panel has nothing to do with it; the price of the phone has everything to do with it.
The arithmetic behind it is dull and worth knowing. Fitting a panel, testing, erasing and dispatching cost about the same on any phone. An iPhone 14 Pro Max is worth enough for those fixed costs to be a modest share of it, so the damage takes a modest share of the price.
Worth knowing before you send it
Like the 14 Pro, it missed the back glass redesign, so back damage is a chassis job. The always on display also means the screen has spent its life lit, which is worth knowing on a phone this age. It is also the last Pro Max with a Lightning port. After three or four years of cables, a worn and loose Lightning socket is a common complaint on one this age, and it is one of the cheaper parts on it to replace.
Face ID is the first thing to try on a broken 14 Pro Max. Its cameras live inside the Dynamic Island, the black pill at the top of the display, so a crack across that edge can stop Face ID even while the picture underneath looks perfect. Next, the camera. This was the first iPhone with a 48 megapixel main camera, and its lens covers stand proud of the back, so they take the blow when the phone lands face up. Open the camera app before you post it: sharp photos mean the lenses survived. Unsure it is this model? Deep Purple was only ever sold on the 14 Pro and 14 Pro Max, and the band on every colour is polished stainless steel.
Sure it is this one?
6.7 inches, three cameras, Dynamic Island, and a Lightning port. The port is the whole check: if the socket at the bottom is the wider oval USB-C one, you have a 15 Pro Max or later rather than this.
Every size, broken
Picture gone, this model runs 128 GB £141, 256 GB £151, 512 GB £151 and 1 TB £155.
Cracked with the picture good, 128 GB £220, 256 GB £240, 512 GB £246 and 1 TB £248.
The iPhone 14 Pro Max in one paragraph
The largest and dearest iPhone of its year, and still one of the highest prices on our list for a phone that is broken.
What happens to a broken one here
A 120 Hz panel is the exact part the big sites use as their excuse. They price a broken one as a total loss and send it on to somebody who does what we do. We fit the screen here and sell the phone from the warehouse we share with iMint, so the saving lands in your price.
Postage and the pack are free whatever it turns out to be worth, it is checked within a working day, and you are paid within 48 hours of it arriving.
What to do about the data, the postage and a grade we disagree with is all on the broken iPhone page. Everything else about this phone, damage or no damage, is on the iPhone 14 Pro Max page. Still deciding? Our three grades, explained properly.
Broken iPhones either side of this one
Sorted the way the catalogue is, so you can see the share climb with the price and then stop climbing.