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I have been keeping my 12 Mini in as pristine condition as possible. I often keep the phone in my vest pocket and really hate the size of … well … anything larger than the Mini. Best form factor ever for me.

Same here. I'm hoping there will be a 19 mini

It wouldn't be crazy for them to offer a mini only every several generations. If the problem is that there isn't enough demand to justify design and tooling, it would make sense to let demand grow for 5-6 years, then release a new mini that all small phone lovers will buy.

Yup, Apple still makes a new iPad mini every 3-4 years, despite it being clearly worse on paper than the mainline iPad. But the last version was mostly a spec bump.

I recently figured the only way to pull that off would be to brand it as „iPhone 19 - Steve Jobs edition“. Apple, feel free to run with it.

That really ended with 1st Gen SE.