Yes, but the original reviews of the 12 Mini all proclaimed that it was too small to useful and had an atrocious battery life. That was during the first COVID l

Yes, but the original reviews of the 12 Mini all proclaimed that it was too small to useful and had an atrocious battery life. That was during the first COVID lockdown period when people couldn’t got to the store to try things out themselves. In reality the Mini is almost as large as the early iPhone XS (5.4 vs 5.8) and the battery life of the Mini is also better than the XS, but reviewers still exaggerated the difference and proclaimed that the Mini was unusable. The Mini name only helps emphasize this in the public mind. I think by the time the iPhone 13 came out and people were able to try the phones in hand, they has already written the Mini off and saw it as this tiny thing with a terrible battery and decided to not consider it.