YouTube user "Hyphaistos3672" disassembled the ‌iPhone 12 mini‌, removed the speaker, and created space for an additional port, before linking the new USB-C connection to the existing hardware.

The iPhone 12 mini and 13 mini were the right phones in the wrong era. Their combination of superb hardware and a compact form factor would have perhaps made them bestsellers in 2016-17.

It’s been roughly a year-and-a-half since I first christened the iPhone 12 mini as the anti-fashion-fashion symbol, and not once have I longed for a bigger device. My seafoam green lil’ buddy ...

iPhone 12 mini was announced in November 2020, and it has pretty much the same hardware as the regular iPhone 12, including the A14 Bionic chip, 5G, MagSafe, dual rear camera, and Face ID.