Apple Released the iPhone X Nine Years Ago Today

Perhaps the most beautiful iPhone after the 4 .

On Sept 12, 2017 I purchased the iPhone 8 Plus instead. Wasn't ready to give up Touch ID at the time and also wasn't ready to go with a 1st gen design. But once I got the XS the following year, realized I should have gone to the new flagship straight away. The XS is still my favorite post-5S iPhone. Although I was already thinking there's no way they'll make the camera bump even bigger, they'll figure out a way to go flush again. Instead Apple went wart/stovetop/plateau. Anyhow, I liked the build and the size and weight, 5.8" would be a mini nowadays.

iPhone X is a fantastic phone. Still have mine today and works perfectly. Bought it on launch day. Can remember the excitement around its launch.

I really loved this phone. I don't think I've felt the same way about an iPhone since!

(I am waiting to see what the Air 2 might be like.)

I handed this phone to my mum around 4 years ago and it is still going strong today. Loved the device when I took it out of its box on launch day.

An amazing phone to celebrate a decade of iPhone. However… as we move towards two decades. I can’t help but feel old.

In 2007 I was an 11 year old seeing the iPhone in an O2 store thinking it wasn’t even worth asking my mum if I could have one, because the thing was just out of this planet.

In 2017 I was a broke student with an iPhone SE (which I loved) and when I watched the Keynote Live.. broadcast from the Steve Jobs theatre for the first ever time, I was blown away. Went to the Apple Store that following November and tried one in person. Think it had that glitter wallpaper you pressed. It was so fluid and vibrant, shiny sleek steel sides. Still love that aesthetic now it’s as futuristic looking now as it was then. And I knew I wouldn’t get one for years later. Lucky for me the XR brought much of the magic.

Now in 2026, very happy to say with some sacrifices, I was able to get the next big change, the Duo and finally be on that hype train the whole way from the station. Thank you to everyone on here that’s made that experience feel exciting with the community. Even the haters. All par for the course.

Can’t wait to see the 20 year iPhone. And how it blows us all away again.