iPhone recommendation for elderly teacher with vision issues

You aren't speaking with Apple and Apple doesn't really offer discounts on their products. This is a user to user only forum. What a wonderful thing you and your fellow teachers want to do for this person. Any iPhone Apple sells, would be a good iPhone. What we can't possibly know is what features this teacher might need or want? Will they maybe want to take a lot of photos? If yes, they'd likely appreciate a Pro model, which has better cameras. Will they need a lot of memory on their phone? That's an important consideration too as once purchased, there is no way to increase memory.

You might benefit from looking at this link which compares the iPhone models --> iPhone - Compare Models - Apple

This also gives you pricing information.

This is a user-to-user community. Apple largely is not here, except to moderate it. They're not going to see what appears to be your request for "a small discount."

You can see Apple's current lineup of iPhones here:

iPhone - Apple

In some countries, Apple sells Certified Refurbished iPhones.

Refurbished iPhone Deals - Apple

Apple also has an online Education Store, where a K-12 teacher or college educator might be able to get discounts on some products. I'm not sure how you would take advantage of discounts that might be available here – whether the school itself would be eligible for discounts, or whether you might be able to give the money to buy the iPhone to the English teacher, and have him actually purchase it.

I don't speak for Apple, so you'd have to check with them about that.

Education Pricing and Student Discounts - Education - Apple

Servant of Cats wrote:

This is a user-to-user community. Apple largely is not here, except to moderate it. They're not going to see what appears to be your request for "a small discount."

You can see Apple's current lineup of iPhones here:

iPhone - Apple

In some countries, Apple sells Certified Refurbished iPhones.

Refurbished iPhone Deals - Apple

Apple also has an online Education Store, where a K-12 teacher or college educator might be able to get discounts on some products. I'm not sure how you would take advantage of discounts that might be available here – whether the school itself would be eligible for discounts, or whether you might be able to give the money to buy the iPhone to the English teacher, and have him actually purchase it.

I don't speak for Apple, so you'd have to check with them about that.

Education Pricing and Student Discounts - Education - Apple

I checked the Education Pricing before I posted and iPhone is not an included device.

lobsterghost1 wrote:

I checked the Education Pricing before I posted and iPhone is not an included device.

Note that there is a Buy iPhone - Education - Apple page.

I did a spot check of the price of a plain iPhone 16 with 256 GB of storage. (128 GB is a bit marginal these days.). The U.S. education price was the same as the regular U.S. price. So you might be right about "no discounts" – at the very least, this indicates that just because an iPhone is listed in the Education Store, that does not guarantee that an education buyer would get a price break.

There are ways to contact Apple corporate for charitable donations/contributions. However, the time involved can be months and it may end up being a relatively small contribution.

The iPhone model is totally dependent on your budget. I’m happy to assist but I would need to know what country you’re in and what your budget is.

Servant of Cats wrote:

lobsterghost1 wrote:

I checked the Education Pricing before I posted and iPhone is not an included device.

Note that there is a Buy iPhone - Education - Apple page.

I did a spot check of the price of a plain iPhone 16 with 256 GB of storage. (128 GB is a bit marginal these days.). The U.S. education price was the same as the regular U.S. price. So you might be right about "no discounts" – at the very least, this indicates that just because an iPhone is listed in the Education Store, that does not guarantee that an education buyer would get a price break.

I checked several sources and found no discount on iPhone in Education pricing at all. Macs, yes. iPad, yes. But iPhone, no.

Apple offers discounts on virtually every Apple product with just one exception, iPhones. When I was working, not even employees got a discount.