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Repair it, or replace it?
Everyone who answers this question is selling one of the two answers. We are selling neither, and we bring the one figure the repair shop will not: a repair buys you only the months of security support your phone has left, while a new phone buys a whole new window. That is why the same quote is good value on one handset and poor value on another. Both money figures are yours and stay in your browser.
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Optional: what you would buy instead
Add both and the tool compares what each option costs per month of security support. Leave them blank and it just tells you what the repair buys.
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Pick your phone and enter the quote to see what the repair actually buys you.
The thing the quote does not tell you
A repair restores the hardware and changes nothing about the software. The support window runs from the model's release date and the manufacturer sets it, so a new screen adds no months of patching. That is the whole asymmetry: spend on a repair and you are buying the remainder of a window someone else already started, and spend on a replacement and you are buying a fresh one.
It cuts both ways, which is why this is not an argument for replacing things. A phone with five years of support left can absorb a large repair bill and still cost less per supported month than a mid-price new handset. A cheap repair on a phone with four months left is the worse deal of the two, even though it is the smaller number.
Where this tool stops
The cost-per-month arithmetic needs a published end date, and only some makers publish one. Motorola and OnePlus do, per model, because UK regulations require it. Google publishes a window and the on-sale dates to count from, so the date is arithmetic. That covers most of the phones this tool can put a number on.
Samsung and Apple do not, and between them that is more than half the phones in the picker. Samsung publishes which devices it is patching right now and how often; Apple publishes which models run the current iOS and has never published a duration for anything. So for a Galaxy or an iPhone this tool gives you what those makers actually publish and no cost-per-month figure, because producing one would mean estimating the window ourselves and presenting the estimate in the same typeface as the sourced numbers. If you want to see exactly what your maker publishes, the phone update checker shows it model by model.
What we are not counting
Security support is one input and it is rarely the only one. Battery health, the condition of the screen, whether the phone is fast enough for what you do, the risk of a second fault on an old device, the trade-in value you lose by waiting, and the plain fact that a repaired phone is one you already own and know: none of that is in the sum. The tool shows those limits next to every result rather than in a footnote, because a number presented without them would be more confident than it deserves to be.
Frequently asked
Is it worth repairing an old phone?
It depends on something most people never check: how much security support the phone has left. A repair buys you only the months remaining in that window, while a replacement buys a whole new one, so the same quote can be good value on one phone and poor value on another of the same age. Work out the quote divided by the months of support remaining, then compare it against the replacement price divided by that phone's full window. Everything else being equal, the phone with more supported life left is the better place to put the money.
How do I know how long my phone will keep getting security updates?
It depends entirely on who made it. Motorola and OnePlus publish a per-model end date because UK regulations require a stated support period for connectable products sold there. Google publishes a fixed window and the on-sale dates it runs from, so the end date is arithmetic: seven years for the Pixel 8 and later, five for the Pixel 6 and 7 generations. Samsung publishes which devices it is currently patching and how often, monthly or quarterly, rather than an end date. Apple publishes no support duration at all, only which models run the current iOS.
Why does this tool not give me a cost per month for my Samsung or iPhone?
Because neither maker publishes an end date, and there is no honest way to produce the number without one. Samsung publishes the live list of what it is patching and at what cadence; Apple publishes which models run the current iOS. Both are real answers, they are simply not dates, and any site giving you a cost-per-month for a Galaxy or an iPhone has estimated the support window itself. What we show instead is what those makers do publish, which for a Galaxy includes whether it has moved to the slower patch tier.
My Galaxy is on quarterly updates instead of monthly. Does that matter for a repair?
It is a useful signal, and it is the closest thing to a countdown Samsung gives. Samsung starts a phone on monthly patches and moves it to quarterly as it ages, before support ends altogether, so quarterly is roughly the second half of a device's supported life. It does not tell you a date, and nobody can turn it into one, but it does tell you the phone is past its midpoint, which is worth knowing before spending on a screen.
Should I repair a phone that no longer gets security updates?
You can, and it is not automatically the wrong call. The phone keeps working and a repair may still be the cheapest way to get what you need from it. What changes is what the money buys: a device where newly discovered flaws will never be patched, so exposure accumulates for as long as you keep using it. That matters most if the phone holds banking, payment or identity apps, and much less if it is going to be a spare, a music player, a hotspot or a child's first device with no accounts on it.
Does a repair extend how long my phone gets updates?
No. Replacing a screen or a battery changes nothing about the software support window, which runs from the model's release date and is set by the manufacturer. This is the asymmetry the tool is built around, and it is the part people are surprised by: the repair restores the hardware, but it buys no additional months of patching.
Do you see the repair quote I type in?
No. The whole tool runs in your browser against a static dataset, with no request to us and nothing stored. We also publish no prices of our own anywhere in it: both money figures are yours, in whatever currency you use, which is why the results are shown as plain numbers with no currency symbol attached.
The two figures came out close. Which should I pick?
If they are within about 15% the tool says so rather than declaring a winner, because both of your inputs are estimates. A repair quote moves with the shop and a replacement price moves with every sale, so a small gap between the two results is not a real difference. When it is that close, support cost is not the deciding factor and the decision should come down to battery health, the condition of the phone, and whether it still does what you need.