Apple iPhone 8 Plus

9owners with an opinion

86%of verdicts positive

5/1positive/negative since 2024

9 yrslongest happy owner

2happy after 3+ years

Praised for reliability and repairability; criticized for battery and design.

What owners wrote

Likes itOwned 9 yearsStill going

I am typing this on a 9 year old iPhone 8 Plus. Battery was replaced once after 6 years, replacement battery is still lasting more than a day. Apps are slowly losing support for it, but other than that it mostly does what I want, and still gets security updates for really bad stuff. Is there a comparably usable 9 year old android?

NeutralOwned 5 years

iphone 8 plus, bought refurb in early 2019. replaced the battery once (and got a replacement since the battery wouldn't pair). it's getting to be time. usb-c is a big feature increment for me, and I need to finish the leap away from google voice, since I absolutely know they are not going to bother implementing RCS and will just shutter the service instead. LiDAR also seems extremely useful/cool. On the other hand, I was kinda hoping for thunderbolt support on the pro models eventually. Not sure if I will buy a refurb 15 Pro or a new 16 Pro Max or wait for the next cycle. that's how you avoid e-waste for real and not as a fashion statement. simply consume less - and that includes not consuming a $300 android phone every 18 months, not just apple - and have it repaired when it needs it. with OEM parts that will last the long-haul and not something off amazon that will need to be changed again in 6 months.

Likes it

Besides Touch ID I'd be really hard pressed to tell you something my current iPhone can do that the iPhone 8+ couldn't, let alone something it can do that I use.

Doesn’t like it

I'm still keeping my iPhone 8 Plus and MacBook Air M1 for the exact same reason. I'm not buying any more Apple products until the notch goes away.

Likes it

I occasionally use my iPhone 8 Plus and don't immediately remember why it feels so nice to use. Then I remember it's the touch ID button

Likes it

Requires iOS 17 so my still-perfectly-functional iPhone 8 Plus is excluded.

Likes it

Can attest to this, typing this on a 6 year old iphone 8 plus

Likes it

Your bluetooth experiences don't mimic the majority. You've just had some shitty headphones and/or Android phones. Never a problem on my iphones 4, 6, 8 Plus and I'm sure my soon to be 11 Pro with 10s of bluetooth enabled devices (cars, headphones, speakers, etc).

Neutral

I have an iPhone 8 Plus and it is larger than I like and heavier. I bought it because I needed the larger screen to watch tutorial videos on the go that had a lot of text and the battery life was better than any other iPhone. But the X size phone is tempting. But I don’t see myself buying another phone for 3 years.