Michael Tsai writes up his experience moving from small form factor to the larger iPhone XR. Moving from Touch ID to Face ID.
Lots of detail, terrific read. One thing that did not come up is the move from a headphone jack to none. I suspect Michael already made the move to AirPods (or the like) and it just wasn’t an issue.
UPDATE: From Michael, via Twitter, on my question about the headphone jack:
The headphone jack is not an issue for me. I use AirPods and recently found a much better Bluetooth car adapter (will hopefully write about it soon).
Michael Tsai’s dispassionate posts are a refreshing take, compared to many others. As he points out, Face ID and Touch ID both have their pluses and minuses. Face ID generally works better for me (my fingerprints simply don’t work well with touch ID), but YMMV.
If I were to buy a new phone this cycle, it’d be the XR. I could live without the 2x sensor, the LCD is fine to me, and the lower price and longer battery life are both nice. (That said, I’m just sitting pretty with the X for at least one more generation; ideally I’ll wait until the iPhone has USB-C.)