'Captain America' star Chris Evans finally gives up his iPhone 6s

He had an Android phone in "Knives Out," and at least saw new devices while filming Apple TV+ "Defending Jacob," but actor Chris Evans was a long-time iPhone 6s user — until now.

Not to spoil the 2019 hit "Knives Out," but there was a reason Chris Evans character had to have an Android phone. It's less clear exactly when the actor got himself an iPhone 6s, but it came out in 2015 and the last ones were sold in 2018.

Now Evans has announced that he's switching phones, and it's specifically because of the mounting problems with his aging iPhone 6s. In posts on Twitter and Instagram, he wrote a little eulogy to his departing phone.

RIP iPhone 6s

We had a good run. I'll miss your home button.

I won't miss the nightly battle of trying to get you to charge. Or your grainy pictures. Or your sudden drops from 100% battery, to 15%, to completely dead all within minutes.

It was a wild ride. Rest easy, pal.
— Chris Evans (@ChrisEvans) June 24, 2022

His Instagram posting has had over a million likes in under 12 hours, while the Twitter one has had half a million, plus an ever-growing discussion thread. The Twitter responses that stay on topic include ones reassuring him that you soon forget the home button.

Evans does not actually say what iPhone he's switched to. But the post on Instagram includes a photo of him transferring data from the iPhone 6s to what looks like a model of either iPhone 12, or iPhone 13.

14 Comments

DAalseth 3033 comments · 6 Years

About 2 years ago

He’ll love FaceID. I know I stopped missing the Home Button within a day or so.

peterhart 162 comments · 8 Years

If you look at the location of the speaker pill cutout, you’d know it is not a 13.

darkvader 1146 comments · 15 Years

DAalseth said:

He’ll love FaceID. I know I stopped missing the Home Button within a day or so.

Doubt it. I've got a X that I use occasionally for testing, and I HATE FaceID.

And his problems would have been easily fixed with a new battery and new Lightning port. It takes less time to do that than move data to a new phone, AND he'd still have a headphone port, which Apple is too cowardly to put back.

I'm currently using a 7+ as my daily carry phone. At least a few times a week I miss the headphone port. Every time that happens I seriously consider upgrading back to my 6s+ even though it's a bit slower.

pichael 49 comments · 13 Years

peterhart said:

If you look at the location of the speaker pill cutout, you’d know it is not a 13.

Good deduction but you seem to be looking at the 6S. The phone to the left appears to have the speaker grill right at the top denoting a 13 series.

mikethemartian 1485 comments · 18 Years

I knew someone who got a free iPhone because the network he was on was trying to drop support for whatever type of phone he had before and he was one of the last holdouts.