Switch to the new Fairphone (Gen. 6)

Originally published at: https://www.fairphone.com/en/2025/06/25/switch-to-the-new-fairphone-gen-6/

Earlier this year, when we launched our new brand identity, I said something simple:

“We’re not just changing how we look. We’re showing who we’ve become.”

I meant it then. And today, with the launch of The Fairphone (Gen. 6), I get to show you exactly what that looks like — and why it matters. This is more than a new product. It’s the moment everything we’ve been building toward comes into focus.

I’ve been with Fairphone since the launch of the Fairphone 2. Back then, we were scrappy, idealistic, and focused on one question:

Can a smartphone be made differently?

How it works — how it’s made, why it’s made, and what it stands for. With The Fairphone, we’ve built our clearest answer yet. It’s the most refined version of everything we believe in — and everything we’ve learned. You can see it in the design, feel it in the materials, hear it in the voice that surrounds it. No compromises on experience, longevity, or impact.

Because for us, innovation doesn’t mean adding more —It means adding intention. Not chasing trends. Not adding features for the sake of it. Just designing for what people actually need. And what we’ve heard — again and again — from our community is this:

They want their phones to take up less space.

In their pockets. And in their heads.

So we made that idea physical. And here’s where “Switch to Fairphone” becomes literal in more ways than one.

Flick the lime switch and your phone transforms.

We call it Fairphone Moments.

From the full power of Android 15 to a simpler, more intentional space.

No feeds. No noise. Just the essentials.

This isn’t just another “focus mode.” It’s a full shift — in how your phone behaves, and how it makes you feel. Because presence shouldn’t be buried under options and menus. It should be right there. One switch away.

This goes for all things Fairphone, by the way.

We’re more focused. More consistent. More confident in how we show up in the world. We haven’t moved on from our mission. We’ve embedded it into every detail. And with The Fairphone, you can feel it — in the precision, the restraint, the clarity. Not just in the phone itself, but in everything that surrounds it. Sustainable tech doesn’t need to announce itself. It just needs to work — beautifully, reliably, and with care behind every choice.

That’s the real shift.

We’re not here to be “the fairest” in a broken industry. We’re here to show what’s possible when values lead — from the inside out.

So if you’ve been watching from the sidelines, wondering if this was the moment to join us — it is. And if you’ve been with us since the beginning — this moment belongs to you, too. Because this is the one that finally feels unmistakably, fully, like us.

This is The Fairphone.

I can’t wait to see what you do with it.

The Fairphone (Gen. 6) is now available for sale. Click here to shop now.

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Can you give some clarity on the size of the phone?
The product page gives two different sets of measurements.

I’ve found these measurements for the case:


(The length seems to indicate that the phone without the case is not 162mm, but 156.5.)

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Will this switch be adjustable? Usuable in custom roms? I notice the /e/OS page for Fairphone 6 doesn’t mention this switch at all, does this mean it is a dead switch on anything other than regular Fairphone Android?

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The replay of live chat of the launch event on youtube is disabled, but there Fairphone said that the switch or “fairphone moments” was also available on /e/OS

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That’s good news. Strange the product page doesn’t mention this. Hopefully this means it will be available to developers of other custom roms too. Perhaps even as a fully customizable switch.

I’ve been coveting Fairphones for a while now and I think the conditions are finally right to get my first one.

I’d like to get one of the privacy enhanced versions, though. I’ve already seen it listed over at Murena. Are you still partnering with Iodè for this generation?

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Will the Fairphone moments be available on FP5 or older in a way?
Even without the switch, maybe with an app or option included in the launcher?

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I was just about to ask the same thing :joy:

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This was mentioned in the live comments by FP on YouTube that aren’t available anymore. If I remember correctly, they wrote that they plan to do it.

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There is an old rendering of the phone on the product page (different LED and power button):

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Dear system,

I’m quite interested — mainly because of the upgraded battery. My FP5 only lasts a day, even with pretty light use.

I was wondering if anyone knows whether there’s a Reuse & Recycle for the Fairphone 5? It doesn’t seem to appear on the page yet.

Thanks in advance!

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I think selling it, will be much better for you and the enviroment

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Not at the moment, but Fairphone replied in the Youtube comments that it is implemented as a separate launcher, so depending on the response it could be ported and even made available in the play store one day

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Hopefully it’ll be fully open source and available in F-Droid, not just in the playstore.

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Does it support grapheneos? I’d love to get one but that’s what’s keeping me on pixels

No it does not because of the hardware

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I would have appreciated it if the development of this new smartphone had not been kept secret. I would have preferred to wait a few more weeks to be able to buy the generation 6 of fairephone instead of the 5 gen… I’m disappointed. :frowning:

The gen six is now the third phone that has been released two years after its predesessor. Fairphone has also in the past communicated, that it is a decision taken to attract new users and rumors about an FP6 are going around a while now.
Sure, the usual customer was not informed in advance, but who does this?
And frankly, I for myself, go and try to get informed before I spend such an amount of money.

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Welcome to the community forum.

It was not much of a secret here that this year should most probably see a Fairphone 6, even less so during the last weeks when serious sightings of things to come popped up … June 25 as an event was first mentioned on May 7, the Fairphone 6 was first mentioned seriously on May 28.

Anyway Fairphone still had some Fairphone 5s to sell to pay the bills, which would have been pretty hard after announcing a successor early, exactly because of an approach like yours.

A few weeks ago you found the Fairphone 5 sufficient for your needs, and for still a lot of money even if the price got lowered. You made a sensible decision, there’s no point in whining now.
Also, some users here already make an argument that you actually have the better phone. Sure, the jury is still out because few have had the Fairphone 6 in their hands yet, but still.

Story of every tech launch, somebody will always be disappointed with something.
In about two years time you can probably console the users who will be disappointed then because of the secret development and surprising launch of The Fairphone (Gen. 7), which nobody could have foreseen.

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