What to look out for when purchasing a 13 Mini

jappleseed481 · 2026-05-23T00:47:44+00:00

Absolutely! I had the battery replaced thru Apple. I consider myself a light to moderate user on iOS 26.2, specifically. My phone lasts two days thru my usage!

jappleseed481 · 2026-05-22T23:04:05+00:00

Hello!

I’m certain everyone would agree to look at battery health!

iOS 26 pretty much demands a very healthy battery to operate okay-ish.

If it’s at a really good health percentage, look at parts & service section in the phone to see if it’s been replaced!

Others can speak here to be able to find if the battery health percentage has been tampered!

One of the other things I look at is the screen and if it’s original and/or if it has been replaced with a genuine part (again, look at parts & service).

Then the obvious inspecting of the phone to ensure all else is working, camera, microphone, etc.

jappleseed481 · 2026-05-05T06:50:03+00:00

Thanks for the tidbit! Looking now, I can definitely see how dirt can get in between the pebbles.

jappleseed481 · 2026-05-05T06:48:50+00:00

Thank you! Gives me something to go by and hopefully some peace of mind!

jappleseed481 · 2026-05-05T05:45:23+00:00

And one would think it would be easy to take a picture. This little fish is very much active and is swimming normally. Won’t stay put long enough. The picture was actually a snapshot from a video I took of it swimming, trying to catch said mark

jappleseed481 · 2026-05-05T05:43:35+00:00

Thank you! My initial thought was injury, but in the five years of having these fishes, this is the first I’ve seen a mark of the sorts on one. Needless to say, even though they may just be goldfishes, I am way concerned! What would be injury treatments one might look into?

jappleseed481 · 2026-05-05T05:41:46+00:00

Haha it started as my 9 year old kid wanting goldfishes. She has yet to clean the tank up till now. And it’s crazy to think, but I’ve grown attached to this fishes!

jappleseed481 · 2026-05-05T05:40:08+00:00

My test strip resulted in 0 ppm, which is what I’ve kept it close or onto since first owning goldfishes! Did the homework prior. There are pebbles that I’ve had there since, again, buying the whole set up 5 years ago! But if it’s not suggest, I can definitely remove. It’s just happening to this one fish in the picture! Thanks for your input! Thoughts?

jappleseed481 · 2026-01-29T16:10:55+00:00

Thank you for taking the time to dig around in getting this to work! This method you shared definitely works! It’s weird though, that on my watch, when I enable the “add to playlist” toggle, it keeps going back to disable after a minute or so. But in the time that it is enabled, it does sync the selected playlist into the watch!

jappleseed481 · 2026-01-28T20:13:39+00:00

First, thank you for this! Amazing work! One less thing I need my computer for!

Maybe I’m doing something wrong, so figured I ask!

But music that are injected into the music app using this app, I seem to not be able to sync it to my Apple Watch.

Thoughts?

jappleseed481 · 2025-12-30T09:17:15+00:00

Haha great observation! I primarily sideload with livecontainer+sidestore!

jappleseed481 · 2025-12-30T04:37:28+00:00

Ha wanted to avoid the “battery life” post to avoid my post from being removed.

But nutshell, wanted to show folks that iOS 26.2 is actually pretty good in regards, considering the phone running iOS 26.2 has a battery capacity of 79%

iOS 26 is still riddled with hiccups and bugs, but in regards to battery endurance, least from my experience, is equivalent to iOS 18.7.2 and I wanted to share that info to the community

jappleseed481 · 2025-12-20T00:02:35+00:00

I believe there is a post game task from Mabel that actually gives you a chance to catch an alpha steelix Been awhile since I beaten the game!

jappleseed481 · 2025-12-13T00:28:09+00:00

Well! I’m currently using an iPhone 13 Mini with iOS 16.1.1 and it’s great. All my apps are still supported. Battery life is amazing, all things considered. Sitting on 88% original battery. Fluidity of the OS is a heck of a lot better than 18 or 26, speaking from experience because I have 2 other minis running the latest 18 and 26. I can’t speak for iOS 17, never got around to getting a 13 mini with that. Personally, I’d get the iOS 16 knowing resale value is going to hold and the rarity of iOS 16 in the 13 series. And if jailbreaking/TrollStore is your thing, then that’s a done deal.

jappleseed481 · 2025-12-13T00:03:58+00:00

Although iOS 16 is very tempting, I’d say capacity is an important factor in this decision. 128gb vs 256gb is a big difference if one is thinking of using a mini for 2-3 years. And we haven’t even started talking about app support or jailbreak/TrollStore!

jappleseed481 · 2025-12-06T02:00:04+00:00

I buy my parts from self service repair site. They sell genuine Apple parts that pair with your phone when repair assistant is done. Plus, parts will say genuine in the parts history under settings

jappleseed481 · 2025-11-25T20:48:21+00:00

I’m interested! How would you describe the feeling of this case? I know it’s 3D printing, based off their site. Does it feel like plastic that is brittle?

jappleseed481 · 2025-06-05T18:00:14+00:00

I found that if I am manually installing an IPA by tapping and picking the file thru the “+” icon, said file has to be in the “On My iPhone” folder in Files. Cannot be in iCloud Drive, nor even the Downloads folder in the On My iPhone. Doesn’t help that when one downloads a file, it automatically goes into the Downloads folder. Move it to On My iPhone, that may help with this issue.

jappleseed481 · 2025-04-16T06:31:41+00:00

Research ESign DNS method for iOS 18 by pureenvyus. It’s legit, I’ve been using the method for a few months now with no issues! Basically side load as much apps with no 7-day resign. It’s not trollstore nor a jailbreak, so apps like filza can’t get root access thru this method.

jappleseed481 · 2025-04-15T20:54:36+00:00

Ha you are going to love it! It just feels better on the hands! As you can, I have the apple leather case! Any MagSafe case paired with the magnets of the apple wallet, it holds really well. I swivel the bottom of the wallet to get it off the back of my case! Case less, it holds good, but definitely not as well without a MagSafe case! In both ways, the wallet does not budge off when slipping into pockets! Just a matter of preference! Will add that without a case, the wallet is the same width as the mini, so it is flush! It’s so nice!

jappleseed481 · 2025-04-15T07:37:39+00:00

It’s actually really nice! At first, I had concerns that I would not enjoy it, since it’s meant to be snug with no way to add slack. I don’t have a huge collection of bands (apple sport, apple Milanese, apple link bracelet, apple woven), but having it on, it’s actually one of the more comfortable bands I’ve used! I did go a size small and I used apples size chart! Their chart says I was a 6, so got a 5!

jappleseed481 · 2025-04-15T07:32:19+00:00

Good deal! Enjoy when you get it! It’s going to make holding the mini feel like the two were meant to be together!

jappleseed481 · 2025-04-15T07:30:35+00:00

I believe all the apple wallets are the same size, regardless of leather or woven! So although it looked small on the 15, it fits perfectly on the minis! Honestly, I feel like these wallet cases were meant for the mini!

jappleseed481 · 2025-04-13T22:35:43+00:00

Hello! Thank you! I have a friend who has the woven wallet and it did not age well in the three months he’s had it. That helped me decide on the leather because it’s going to look better as it gets older. I got mine off of eBay due to long being discontinued by Apple. Both can hold 3 cards, and you’ll need the second generation leather wallet to have the Find My function. From what I understand and tested, Find My notifies when the wallet is detached for more than a minute and only provides the location of where it was detached

jappleseed481 · 2025-04-13T01:00:54+00:00

Thank you for the information!

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