Sell your broken
iPhone SE (2022).
Even with nothing on the screen at all, a 64 GB is £5. That is 29 per cent of the working price rather than the nothing you may have been expecting. Nobody is going to retire on that. It is still more than the nothing you are offered everywhere that treats a broken screen as the end of the conversation.
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
Three figures, and the gaps between them are the point. £17 if it is perfect. £13 once the front glass has gone but the display under it still draws a clean image, a drop of £4. £5 once the image itself is wrong, which is £12 off the top. The crack costs something, and a faulty picture costs a good deal more, so it is worth knowing which you have.
Those are 64 GB prices, the bottom of this model's range, so a larger one is worth more rather than less. On an LCD a bad one usually announces itself: white patches, a washed out area, or backlight bleeding at an edge. 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 SE (2022) sits
That makes the iPhone SE (2022) less than most of the phones we buy. 27 of the 32 iPhones on this list come through damage better than that, and 2 come through it worse.
Across the 32 iPhones we buy and can price broken, the ones worth under £50 working keep about 41 per cent of that price with the picture gone, and the ones worth £120 or more keep about 57 per cent. It is the value of the phone that decides it, not the kind of screen in it.
The reason is not the screen, it is the sums. A display, a test, an erase and a dispatch cost about the same on any phone at all, and against what an iPhone SE (2022) fetches those fixed costs are a large share. The cheaper the phone, the less of it survives the damage.
Worth knowing before you send it
Same small battery problem as the SE before it, in the same small body. If it has been somebody's only phone since 2022, the battery is the part that gave up first.
Apple fitted this SE with the same glass on both faces as on the back of the iPhone 13, which it called the toughest in a smartphone, but tough is not unbreakable, so inspect front and back right to the edges. Next, prove Touch ID: register a fingerprint if none is set up and unlock with it a few times, since the sensor is built into the Home button at the foot of the screen. This is the SE that brought 5G, which the 2020 model never had. With a 5G SIM somewhere with 5G coverage, the 5G symbol in the status bar shows the mobile side works. Apple named the colours differently, midnight, starlight and red here where the 2020 had black, white and red, but the reliable answer is the SIM slot, which reads A2783 on a UK phone.
Sure it is this one?
Externally identical to the SE (2020) and to the iPhone 8 before that, so nobody can tell these apart by eye and we would rather not pretend otherwise. Settings, General, About reads iPhone SE (3rd generation) on this one. If it says 2nd, you want the other page.
Every size, broken
Picture gone, this model runs 64 GB £5, 128 GB £5 and 256 GB £5.
Cracked with the picture good, 64 GB £13, 128 GB £14 and 256 GB £14.
The iPhone SE (2022) in one paragraph
It is a 5G phone wearing an iPhone 8 case, which is a strange combination and a useful one: the screen and body parts are cheap and plentiful, so damage costs less to put right here than on anything else we buy.
What happens to a broken one here
This is one of the cheaper phones on the site to put right and a steady one to sell on. Unglamorous work, and good news for whoever is selling one, because what we save on the repair is what holds the broken price up.
The label is tracked and insured to the value of the quote, the check takes a working day, and the money follows within 48 hours of the phone arriving it.
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 SE (2022) page. Still deciding? How to check your iPhone storage size.
Broken iPhones either side of this one
The share beside each name is what that model keeps. Notice how little the panel has to do with the order.