Black Friday 2024 – live: Latest news and early deals

If the iPhone 16 deal below isn’t right for you, we’ve got even more discounts in our full guide to Black Friday phone deals. It includes a contract offer on the Samsung Galaxy S24, one of the best Android phones of the year.

This £20 discount on the iPhone 16 might not seem like much, but deals on the newest iPhone are rare and sell out fast. You’ll find the offer in Giffgaff’s Black Friday sale, which kicked off earlier this week.

For the avoidance of doubt: the budget network lists this as a £50 discount, but only because Giffgaff usually sells the iPhone 16 for £30 more than its £799 RRP.

This year’s base iPhone 16 gets the new A18 chip rather than using the chip from last year’s Pro phones, giving it speedy all-round performance. It comes in £200 cheaper than the iPhone 16 Pro by ditching the more expensive phone’s telephoto lens and using a lower quality 60Hz display. If you don’t think you’ll notice those differences, the iPhone 16 is the phone for you.

We have an entire Black Friday deals page dedicated to headphones and earphones, where you’ll find the Sony WH-1000XM5 we just mentioned alongside a whole lot more.

This isn’t technically a Black Friday deal, but we’re not going to ignore it on a technicality: our pick of the best wireless headphones has almost 30 per cent off at Amazon.

You can have any colour you like, so long as it’s silver. Thankfully, Sony’s silver colourway looks great – it reminds us of the colour of every PC in the 90s.

Sony WH-1000XM5 wireless headphones: Was £379, now £274, Amazon.co.uk

Our tester was blown away by these new Sony headphones, impressed with their noise-cancelling abilities and crystal clarity. They said: “whether it’s orchestral music, rap, podcasts or your favourite pop tracks, the WH-1000XM5 handles it all with poise and gumption, and it never misses a beat”.

Let’s turn our attention to Argos, which has never quite been the same ever since they got rid of those massive catalogues. In any case the retailer is already shin-deep in Black Friday deals, with discounts to be found across its vast range of products.

You’ll find the very best Argos deals in our full guide, but here’s one that would make a great Christmas gift for a Star Wars fan who’s been exceptionally good this year.

Lego Star Wars Millennium Falcon collector series set: Was £735, now £525, Argos.co.uk

This 7,541-piece collector’s item is reduced by a whopping £210 for Black Friday. The Lego Star Wars Millennium Falcon set features a cockpit with enough room for a tiny Han Solo and Chewie, plus the dealer’s choice of C-3PO, Leia and three other characters from the newer films whose names nobody can remember.

We’re also seeing early Black Friday deals over at Samsung’s official storefront, where the tech giant is dropping prices on everything from phones to fridges.

Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 6: Was £1,799, now £1,499, Samsung.com

Samsung’s best foldable gets a massive £300 discount for Black Friday, bringing the price of the 256GB version down to £1,499. Trade in your existing phone and Samsung will offer you up to £670 for your old handset too. The Galaxy Z Fold 6 features in our round-up of the best folding phones, where our tester rates it for its premium design and fast performance.

Electrical retailer AO kicked off its Black Friday deals just a few minutes ago, with hundreds of discounts now available across its range of TVs, beauty products, home appliances and more.

We’ve spotted a £70 discount on the Ninja foodi dual zone air fryer, and that’s just for starters.

Ninja foodi dual zone air fryer: Was £199, now £129, AO.com

With a generous 7.6l capacity, this air fryer has enough room for absolutely loads of chips. It has the full suite of features you’d expect: straightforward timers telling you when to add food, shake things up and take things out; automatic switch-off; and two cooking zones, so everything finishes at the same time. It’s also dishwasher friendly, so it doesn’t turn into an uncleanable grease trap over time.

Let’s kick things off by taking a look at those eager retailers who just couldn’t hang around until 29 November to start dropping their Black Friday deals.

First up is high-street pharmacy Boots, historic purveyor of cosmetics, electric toothbrushes, cheap meal deals and hangover cures.

You’ll find a full set of early discounts in our full Boots guide, but here’s a top deal on the Oral-B iO8 toothbrush.

Oral-B iO8 electric toothbrush: Was £450, now £140, Boots.com

If you’ve been waiting to upgrade to the Oral-B iO series, here’s your best offer: a £310 discount on the Oral-B iO8 electric toothbrush. In our guide to the best electric toothbrushes, our expert put the newer iO9 iteration to the test, praising its brushing technology (which also features in the iO 8) and how the “mechanical action of the fast-moving brush can more easily get into those hard-to-reach areas”.

Welcome back to the Black Friday liveblog, where all day we’ll be highlighting the best early deals in this year’s sale.

Black Friday doesn’t technically start until 29 November, but that hasn’t stopped retailers jumping the gun with early discounts. Boots, John Lewis, Currys and Argos are all offering deals today.

And who can blame them? We’re all excited. Excited for deals.

This year, the sale lands on Friday 29 November, and will last a full four days before concluding on Cyber Monday (2 December). However, myriad brands and retailers kicked off their Black Friday sales early – see Boots, Argos, John Lewis and Currys.

So, in the weeks leading up to Black Friday, I will be busy hunting down the crème de la crème of early deals, spanning tech, beauty, fashion and more, along with my fellow IndyBest shopping experts.

Whether you’re in the market for a new moisturiser or cordless vacuum, we’ve rounded up the best early Black Friday offers below, plus the deals we can expect during the main event – consider it your cheat sheet to the sale. Have a lovely evening, and happy shopping!