{"id":88308,"date":"2016-04-26T10:51:44","date_gmt":"2016-04-26T08:51:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=88308"},"modified":"2025-07-01T23:59:03","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T06:59:03","slug":"youll-be-shocked-when-you-find-out-how-much-your-old-iphones-are-worth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/youll-be-shocked-when-you-find-out-how-much-your-old-iphones-are-worth\/","title":{"rendered":"You\u2019ll be shocked when you find out how much your old iPhones are actually worth!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, it turns out that old <strong>iPhones<\/strong> are worth an absolute fortune! Who\u2019d have thought it?<\/p>\n<p>A recent <strong>environmental report<\/strong> from <strong>Apple<\/strong> revealed that the company had manage to salvage around <strong>1,000 kilos of gold<\/strong>, which was salvaged from old products such as iPhones, iPads and Macs. Oh, you never knew your device had gold in it? Yes!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gold<\/strong> is regularly used in electronics as it is an excellent electricity conductor, and is extremely durable as a material.<\/p>\n<p>According to official sources, you can expect to receive just short of<strong> $40,000 for a kilo of gold<\/strong>. So, that means that just by recycling their old devices, Apple stand to make around $40 million (rough estimate)! According to sources, Apple does not sell its old devices \u2013 it simply reuses the materials to make newer ones.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-88309\" title=\"russian-gold-holdings\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2016\/04\/russian-gold-holdings-568x271.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"568\" height=\"271\" srcset=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2016\/04\/russian-gold-holdings-568x271.jpg 568w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2016\/04\/russian-gold-holdings-256x122.jpg 256w, https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/3\/2016\/04\/russian-gold-holdings.jpg 1078w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 568px) 100vw, 568px\" \/>Before you all start pulling apart your devices looking for <strong>gold bricks<\/strong>, be warned, there\u2019s hardly any gold in one device to make you some big bucks. \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, it turns out that old iPhones are worth an absolute fortune! Who\u2019d have thought it? A recent environmental report from Apple revealed that the company had manage to salvage around 1,000 kilos of gold, which was salvaged from old products such as iPhones, iPads and Macs. Oh, you never knew your device had gold &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/youll-be-shocked-when-you-find-out-how-much-your-old-iphones-are-worth\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;You\u2019ll be shocked when you find out how much your old iPhones are actually worth!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2040,"featured_media":88313,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[2441],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-88308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-how-to"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2040"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88308"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":329038,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88308\/revisions\/329038"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88308"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=88308"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=88308"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=88308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}