Apple criticized for new iPhones 'too big for women to hold'

Apple has been criticised for designing iPhones too big for women's hands.

Campaigners said they were “furious” the tech giant was not making products with women in mind after it announced it would discontinue the smallest iPhone model, the SE, the Daily Mail reports.

The screen width of the new iPhone XS models range from 5.8in to 6.5in – all considerably bigger than the SE, which has a screen size of 4in, the Daily Mail reports.

After announcing the launch of its new range on Wednesday, four other iPhone models were removed from Apple's website. These included the iPhone SE.

It is not known whether Apple will release another small model to replace the SE.

Critics quickly pointed out the larger models would be more difficult for women to use because the average female hand is an inch narrower than the average man's.

Caroline Criado Perez, the feminist campaigner behind the Millicent Fawcett statue in Parliament Square, said: 'I genuinely have RSI [repetitive strain injury] from having an iPhone 6, and it went as soon as I switched to an iPhone SE.

“It genuinely does affect women's hand health – women do buy more iPhones than men – it just baffles me that Apple doesn't design with our bodies in mind.

We should be furious about this, we are paying just as much money for it as men for a product that doesn't work as well for us.'

Jess Phillips, the Labour MP for Birmingham Yardley, said companies tended to design products with men, not women, in mind.