Sell your broken
iPhone 17.
Smashed, with the picture gone altogether, a 256 GB is worth £201 here: 61 per cent of what the same phone pays working. At this end of the range the damage is one part of a phone that is otherwise worth a lot, and the offer is built that way round.
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 £330, which is what a perfect 256 GB fetches. Break the glass and leave the picture alone and you are at £306, down £24. Break the picture, so lines or blotches or nothing at all, and you are at £201, down £129 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.
Those are 256 GB prices, the bottom of this model's range, so a larger one is worth more rather than less. 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. When it is genuinely a toss up, choose the lower grade and let the bench correct it upwards. Our three grades, explained properly.
Where the iPhone 17 sits
That makes the iPhone 17 one of the better ones on this site. Put the 32 models we can price broken in order and it lands with 7 above it and 23 below.
That is not one model being lucky. Sorted by price, the 32 we can price broken fall into two camps: the cheap ones average about 41 per cent kept, the ones from £120 upwards average about 57 per cent, and what separates them is what the working phone is worth rather than what its screen is made of.
The screen is the part that meets the floor and very little else does. On an iPhone 17 the board, the cameras and the battery are almost always fine afterwards, and since they are most of the value of the phone, most of the value survives.
Worth knowing before you send it
Too recent for a pattern, and we are not going to guess at one. What is worth knowing is that its 120 Hz panel is a Pro grade part fitted to a phone that is not a Pro, so a broken 17 screen costs more to replace than a broken 16 screen and is worth more to us.
Sure it is this one?
6.3 inches with two rear cameras. The 16 of the year before is the same two lenses on a 6.1 inch body, so this is the visibly larger of the pair, and the 17 Pro of the same year has three lenses rather than two.
Every size, broken
Picture gone, this model runs 256 GB £201 and 512 GB £211.
Cracked with the picture good, 256 GB £306 and 512 GB £308.
The iPhone 17 in one paragraph
The first non Pro iPhone with a 120 Hz screen, and the first base model to start at 256 GB.
Two sizes only, and it starts at 256 GB. There is no 128 GB iPhone 17, so if yours says 128 GB it is an earlier model.
What happens to a broken one here
It is recent enough that a broken one is a repair rather than a donor, and it is priced on that basis. The screen goes on, the phone is checked, erased and sold, and your damage changes the cost of one part.
Free tracked postage, checked within a working day, paid within 48 hours of it arriving, and erased to recognised standards with the record kept.
The practical questions, erasing a phone you cannot see, posting a bad crack safely, changing your mind, are on the broken iPhone page. For the phone rather than the breakage, see the iPhone 17 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.