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Tom’s Guide
Technology
Richard Priday

Should you buy the iPhone 16 or wait for the iPhone 17? Here’s the advice I gave my own dad

IPhone 17 slim render next to iPhone 16.

The three certainties in life are death, taxes and acting as tech support for your parents. This applies extra if you’re a tech journalist, as even more people in your life will gravitate toward you with misbehaving devices or questions about what to buy.

But these questions are often ones that’ll help out other people, too. That’s why I’m going to share a conversation I recently had with my dad about upgrading his iPhone — something I imagine lots of people are considering at any given moment.

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