A few weeks ago, my dad asked me if I had an older phone he could trade in toward an iPhone 18 Pro. T-Mobile wouldn’t accept his defective iPhone 13, but the carrier was ready to offer the latest model for close to nothing, so long as my dad turned in another model and agreed to three more years of service.
It was then that I rediscovered my iPhone 11 from 2019, with its yellow finish that harkened back to the days of more adventurously colored handsets. As I prepared to reset the phone, a thought came to mind: How well would this phone run with the latest software?
