Sell your iPhone 16e
128 GB.
The 128 GB is the smallest iPhone 16e Apple sold, so this is the bottom of the range for this phone. Every larger size is worth more. All three prices below are for the 128 GB and confirmed before you post anything.
iPhone 16e, February 2025, 6.1 inch Super Retina XDR OLED. This page is the 128 GB one.
Condition
What counts as Works fine
- ✓Switches on, charges and works as a phone
- ✓No cracks on the front or back glass
- ✓Battery health 80% or above
- ✓Face ID, cameras, speakers and buttons all work
- ✓Original screen, picture perfect
- ✗Any crack: that is Picture fine
- ✗Battery under 80%: priced as Picture fine
- ✗Face ID, a camera, sound or a button not working: Picture fine
- ✗A bad or replacement screen: 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
Battery health 80% or more?
Settings, Battery, Battery Health. Ten seconds. Under 80 counts as Picture fine. Not sure is fine, we test it here.
- 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
Not sure which one is yours? Picture fine means the picture is perfect however the glass looks. Picture faulty means the display itself is faulty or has been replaced. Hidden faults, battery to Face ID, are accepted in both. Our three grades, explained properly.
Is the 128 GB worth checking?
Working, the 256 GB pays £20 more and the 512 GB pays £25 more. At the same capacity, the iPhone 16 pays £140 more.
With cracked glass and a good picture the same 128 GB is £127, and with a bad LCD or a replacement screen it is £50, so the cracked glass costs you £13 at this size rather than the whole value of the phone.
The same 128 GB in the models either side: iPhone 16 128 GB.
If Settings, General, About shows a Capacity other than 128 GB, use one of these instead: 256 GB, 512 GB.
How much is 128 GB in real life?
Knock off the 10 to 15 GB that iOS keeps for itself and you are left with about 110 GB to actually use. That is in the region of 36,000 photos at roughly 3 MB apiece, or about ten hours of 4K video at 30 frames a second, going by Apple's own on screen estimate of 170 MB a minute. Downloaded music barely registers: an album weighs in somewhere near 100 MB, so five hundred of them would not take this phone past half way. Apps sit on top, tens of megabytes for most, a few gigabytes for the biggest games, and this size absorbs them without fuss.
That arithmetic is why 128 GB became the size most owners stop thinking about. An ordinary photo library, the apps, the podcasts and the holiday videos all fit without management. The people who genuinely run out are the ones filming 4K every week, and they mostly knew to buy bigger on day one.
Why the step to 256 GB is £20 here
Apple has typically charged about a hundred pounds to go from 128 GB to 256 GB when these phones were new. Used, the same step on the iPhone 16e is £20, and the shrinkage is the market talking: a second hand buyer pays for storage they will actually use, and most people never fill 128 GB in the first place.
That flattening cuts kindly for whoever bought the smaller size, and it also settles the question of waiting: storage premiums keep narrowing as a phone ages, so holding on will not grow the gap back.
Where the range starts
128 GB was the entry point for the iPhone 16e, and entry sizes dominate the second hand supply the way they dominated the original sales. That is a statement about the market rather than a measurement of ours: nothing here counts how many of each size we take in, or how quickly one moves on compared with another, so this page will not tell you yours is the configuration we see most often or the one that sells on fastest. None of that needs anything from you beyond being on the right page, which, if the About screen agrees, is this one. Worth knowing too that no smaller iPhone 16e was ever made. A phone showing 64 GB in Settings, General, About is an earlier model, not a bargain version of this one.
Worth knowing before you send it
It has no MagSafe magnets, so if a case or a car mount will not hold it, nothing has broken. That is how the phone was built.
Is this the iPhone 16e you have?
6.1 inches, a notch across the top and a single rear camera, on a phone that charges over USB-C. The 16 beside it has two lenses and a Dynamic Island. The only other one camera iPhone of this era is the Air, which is 6.5 inches and far thinner.
iPhone 16e prices by size
| Size | Working | Faulty / Damaged - Screen Fine | Faulty / Damaged - Screen Bad |
|---|---|---|---|
| 128 GB this page | £140 | £127 | £50 |
| 256 GB | £160 | £159 | £57 |
| 512 GB | £165 | £164 | £62 |
£140 is locked for 10 days. Postage and the postage pack are free, and a phone that does not match its grade gets a revised offer you can turn down.
What makes this model worth having is on the iPhone 16e page.
Still deciding? How much is my iPhone worth in 2026?
The 128 GB question
What is an iPhone 16e 128 GB worth right now?
The size half of it is settled by the page you are on: the 128 GB is the bottom rung of this model's ladder, and every larger size pays more. Condition does the rest, and we judge the glass and the picture apart from each other: cracked glass, or battery health below 80 per cent, is our middle grade, and a fault in the picture itself is the bottom one. The three figures at the top of this page are all for the 128 GB, and whichever one you order at holds for 10 days.
Cracked screens, battery health, Find My and how fast you are paid are answered on the iPhone 16e page.