{"id":49993,"date":"2026-04-08T20:03:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T20:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/2026\/04\/08\/5-of-the-10-best-selling-smartphones-in-q4-2025-were-iphones\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T20:03:29","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T20:03:29","slug":"5-of-the-10-best-selling-smartphones-in-q4-2025-were-iphones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/2026\/04\/08\/5-of-the-10-best-selling-smartphones-in-q4-2025-were-iphones\/","title":{"rendered":"5 of the 10 best-selling smartphones in Q4 2025 were iPhones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<figure class=\"img-border featured-image\">\n<\/figure>\n<p>A new Counterpoint Research report shows that the iPhone 17 lineup led the market in Q4 2025, with its core models taking the top three spots and cementing Apple&#8217;s presence in the top 10 best-selling smartphones for the period. here are the details.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-1047315\"\/><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-iphone-17-pro-max-led-sales-during-q4-2025\">iPhone 17 Pro Max leads sales during Q4 2025<\/h2>\n<p>counterpoint research is new <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/counterpointresearch.com\/en\/insights\/global-smartphone-sales-top-10-best-sellers\">report<\/a> It turns out that Apple took five spots in the top 10 best-selling smartphones in the last quarter of 2025, with the iPhone 17 Pro Max leading the way, followed by the iPhone 17 and iPhone 17 Pro.<\/p>\n<p>The iPhone 16 came in fourth place, while the iPhone 16e remained in eighth place. The iPhone Air did not make the top 10.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"559\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2026\/04\/counterpoint-top10-q42025_08a65a.jpg?quality=82&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1047317\" srcset=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2026\/04\/counterpoint-top10-q42025_08a65a.jpg 1800w, https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2026\/04\/counterpoint-top10-q42025_08a65a.jpg?resize=155,85 155w, https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2026\/04\/counterpoint-top10-q42025_08a65a.jpg?resize=655,357 655w, https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2026\/04\/counterpoint-top10-q42025_08a65a.jpg?resize=768,419 768w, https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2026\/04\/counterpoint-top10-q42025_08a65a.jpg?resize=1024,559 1024w, https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2026\/04\/counterpoint-top10-q42025_08a65a.jpg?resize=1536,838 1536w, https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2026\/04\/counterpoint-top10-q42025_08a65a.jpg?resize=350,191 350w, https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2026\/04\/counterpoint-top10-q42025_08a65a.jpg?resize=140,76 140w, https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2026\/04\/counterpoint-top10-q42025_08a65a.jpg?resize=1600,873 1600w, https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2026\/04\/counterpoint-top10-q42025_08a65a.jpg?resize=150,82 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><\/figure>\n<p>Samsung took four spots with the Galaxy A56 (#5), Galaxy A36 (#6), Galaxy A07 (#7), and Galaxy S25 (#10), while Xiaomi took the ninth spot on the list with the Redmi A5.<\/p>\n<p>Counterpoint says that &#8220;the top 10 smartphones contributed 23% of global sales for the quarter,&#8221; with the iPhone 17 Pro Max alone contributing 5%.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout the year, Apple consistently maintained iPhone models in Counterpoint&#8217;s top 10 list, firmly holding the top three spots, while Samsung and Xiaomi traded off on a quarter-by-quarter basis, except for Q3, in which Xiaomi did not appear.<\/p>\n<p>Counterpoint&#8217;s report also revealed that the iPhone 16 was the only iPhone model to appear in the top 10 during the entire year, leading every ranking except the last.<\/p>\n<p>To view Counterpoint Research&#8217;s &#8216;Global Smartphone Sales, Top 10 Best Sellers Ranking&#8217;, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/counterpointresearch.com\/en\/insights\/global-smartphone-sales-top-10-best-sellers\">follow this link<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-worth-checking-out-on-amazon\">Worth checking out on Amazon<\/h4>\n<div class=\"google-preferred-source-badge\">\n<p>\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"google-preferred-source-badge-dark\" src=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/wp-content\/themes\/ninetofive\/dist\/images\/google-preferred-source-badge-dark.png\" alt=\"Add 9to5Mac as a favorite source on Google\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"google-preferred-source-badge-light\" src=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/wp-content\/themes\/ninetofive\/dist\/images\/google-preferred-source-badge-light.png\" alt=\"Add 9to5Mac as a favorite source on Google\"\/><\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"ad-disclaimer-container\">\n<p class=\"disclaimer-affiliate\"><em>FTC: We use auto affiliate links that generate income.<\/em> More.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/4rDvqMk\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1044137\" src=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2026\/03\/750x150-1.jpg?quality=82&amp;strip=all\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"150\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new Counterpoint Research report shows that the iPhone 17 lineup led the market in Q4 2025, with its core models taking the top three spots and cementing Apple&#8217;s presence in the top 10 best-selling smartphones for the period. here are the details. iPhone 17 Pro Max leads sales during Q4 2025 counterpoint research is<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49995,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[18250,3230,12081],"class_list":{"0":"post-49993","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-devotionals","8":"tag-bestselling","9":"tag-iphones","10":"tag-smartphones"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49993"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49997,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49993\/revisions\/49997"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christiancorner.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}