The iPhone XR has a 6.1-inch screen, which means it fits right in between the sizes of the 5.8-inch iPhone XS and the 6.5-inch iPhone XS Max.
It’s not too big for folks with small hands, but you still get a nice, large screen. It uses an LCD panel, the same kind found in Apple’s iPhone 8 and earlier models. It’s not supposed to be as colorful or bright as the fancy OLED in the iPhone XS, but it’s tuned so well that I sometimes couldn’t tell the difference.
I like that the screen takes up the entire front of the phone and that there’s no longer a home button, just like the iPhone XS (and last year’s iPhone X). The black borders around the screen are a little thicker than they are on the more expensive XS phones, but I don’t think most folks will notice that.