I know I’m not in the majority, however, with the deals out there at the moment, you can get him a 15 almost free with a 36 mo contract telling him, this is it for 3 years! I got my 13 and 11 year old (at the time) iPhone 14’s and told them the same thing… all good while they probably don’t understand, and I’ll get them anything newer as long as they pay for the balance and get another 36 months… better to have the newer version and not worry about problems and have AppleCare on it cause they will break it and then let them take responsibility of upgrading
I know I’m not in the majority, however, with the deals out there at the moment, you can get him a 15 almost free with a 36 mo contract telling him, this is it for 3 years! I got my 13 and 11 year old (at the time) iPhone 14’s and told them the same thing… all good while they probably don’t understand, and I’ll get them anything newer as long as they pay for the balance and get another 36 months… better to have the newer version and not worry about problems and have AppleCare on it cause they will break it and then let them take responsibility of upgrading