Over the past year there has been an increasing interest in iPhone 5C, released in 2013 by Apple. The motive is the aesthetics of the photographs captured by the 13-inch camera on this phone.
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11/11/2026
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A Apple recently released its new tops for the end of 2026 with iPhone 18 Pro, the iPhone 18 Pro Max and the iPhone Duo – the latter being the first foldable released by the Apple Company.
Despite the new features that are integrated into these new models, it seems that younger users of mobile phones are interested in another (well) more modest Apple model. In fact, this particular model was launched in 2013 and was not even presented at the time as a top of the brand's range.
We talk about iPhone 5C, a device released by Apple in September 2013 and that over the past year has been increasingly sought after. The site Compare and Remile says that searches for “buy iPhone 5C” had an increase of 40,500%. On the other hand, searches for “I iPhone 5C camera” and for “iPhone 5C” showed increases of 1.815% and 264%.
The interest in iPhone 5C is not due to the colorful aesthetics of these phones, but to the camera and aesthetics of the early 2000s of the photographs taken with this phone. Remember that this Apple phone was equipped with a single 8MP camera that, although it has capabilities well below those offered by modern iPhones, corresponds exactly to what younger users are looking for. Nevertheless, this choice of consumers may pose some risks.
Says the Chief Product Officer of Compare and Recycle, Lee Elliott, who claims that “Unlike standard digital cameras, iPhone 5C comes with security risks that users may not be expecting”.
The reason is that iPhone 5C has not received further Apple updates since 2017. The last update released by the company for iPhone 5C was iOS 10.3.3, which means this model has security risks worthy of note.
“The iPhone 5C cannot protect personal data in the same way as modern iPhones, which makes users vulnerable to data leaks, invasions and other security vulnerabilities”, says Elliott, according to the techRadar site.
If users still want to buy iPhone 5C instead of a digital camera, Elliott’s advice is that the phone be used without a SIM card and without Internet access. It is also unadvised to connect iPhone 5C to your Apple ID, which means that photos captured with iPhone 5C must be transferred to the computer via a cable.