Apple Lowers Trade-In Values for Macs, iPads, and Apple Watches

Thursday May 5, 2022 8:54 am PDT by Joe Rossignol

Apple this week lowered its estimated trade-in values for select Mac, iPad, and Apple Watch models in the United States.

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Apple has reduced trade-in values for the MacBook Pro, MacBook Air, MacBook, iMac, iMac Pro, Mac Pro, Mac mini, iPad Pro, iPad Air, iPad, iPad mini, Apple Watch Series 3 through Apple Watch Series 6, Apple Watch SE, and select Samsung and Google smartphones. Apple is also no longer accepting Apple Watch Series 2 trade-ins.

iPhone trade-in values are unchanged.

New trade-in values:

MacBook Pro: Up to $1,000
MacBook Air: Up to $400
MacBook: Up to $220
iMac Pro: Up to $1,500
iMac: Up to $850
Mac Pro: Up to $2,000
Mac mini: Up to $450
iPad Pro: Up to $655
iPad Air: Up to $290
iPad: Up to $190
iPad mini: Up to $200
Apple Watch Series 6: Up to $150
Apple Watch SE: Up to $120
Apple Watch Series 5: Up to $120
Apple Watch Series 4: Up to $85
Apple Watch Series 3: Up to $50

Previous trade-in values:

MacBook Pro: Up to $1,350
MacBook Air: Up to $490
MacBook: Up to $315
iMac Pro: Up to $2,135
iMac: Up to $1,200
Mac Pro: Up to $2,720
Mac mini: Up to $600
iPad Pro: Up to $680
iPad Air: Up to $335
iPad: Up to $200
iPad mini: Up to $205
Apple Watch Series 6: Up to $170
Apple Watch SE: Up to $135
Apple Watch Series 5: Up to $135
Apple Watch Series 4: Up to $105
Apple Watch Series 3: Up to $70
Apple Watch Series 2: Up to $20

The full list of values can be found on Apple's trade-in website.

Tag: Apple Trade-In Guide

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Top Rated Comments

turbineseaplane

58 months ago

What a bummer.

The trade-ins were never the best way to get the most money out of older devices, but it was close enough for many folks to be worth it. That value calculation keeps getting worse as they keep dropping the trade-in numbers.

Score: 21 Votes (Like | Disagree)

anakin44011

58 months ago

I looked into trading in my MacBook Pro earlier this year, but I was more disappointed in the process than the trade-in values.

When I trade in a car, I only pay sales tax on the difference. So if I trade in a $20,000 car while buying a $40,000 car, I only pay sales tax on the 20,000.

Apple trade-ins don't work that way. If I trade in a $2000 laptop when buying a $4000 laptop, I'm still paying 7% on the full $4000.

So putting it up on eBay still makes financial sense, even though it is such an awful selling experience -- which begs the question...what the heck happened to eBay? When did they become a third world garage sale while commanding such usurious fees?

Score: 16 Votes (Like | Disagree)

contacos

58 months ago

that’s why I have like 5 iPhones, 2 MBP and an iPad laying around because mentally I can’t get myself to sell them back to Apple considering how much I initially paid for it 😅

Score: 15 Votes (Like | Disagree)

maxoakland

58 months ago

Very not cool. This discourages recycling and is just typical latter day apple nickel-and-diming. It’s so annoying how they do that now. They’ll get rid of the stickers soon

Score: 14 Votes (Like | Disagree)

xxray

58 months ago

Holy crap, thank god I just traded in my 2018 15” MacBook Pro two weeks ago. The trade-in value when from $730 to $400!!

Score: 12 Votes (Like | Disagree)