The Oral-B iO Series 6 has a great mix of features and a good price. It’s mostly the same as the award-winning iO Series 9, but the price was kept low by making a few small changes. The brush is basically the same. It has a super quiet motor that lets it glide smoothly across your teeth, a bright colour LCD display on the handle, a pressure sensor, and real-time brushing feedback through Oral-mobile B’s app.
The only thing that has changed are the accessories, which now have a less fancy charging base and a very simple travel case that keeps the brush clean but doesn’t keep it charged. It’s easy to recommend if you don’t plan to take your toothbrush off the grid and don’t care too much about how its charging dock looks in your bathroom. This is one of the best electric toothbrushes on the market right now.
Specifications
- Customise LED colour
- 5 cleaning modes
- Monochrome display
- Charging stand
Where to get Oral-B iO Series 6?
The Oral-B iO Series 6 is the cheaper follow-up to last year’s top-of-the-line Series 9, which we reviewed. In a lot of ways, it’s the same: it has the same design, the same brush heads, the same app, and the same cleaning modes and power.
But a few ways to save money have cut the price a lot, so it’s no longer ludicrously expensive and just very expensive. (I’m talking about the UK RRP, but you won’t have to pay that, as you’ll see.)
What’s different is that the Series 6 has a more traditional charging stand instead of the Series 9’s magnetic puck, and instead of a carrying case that also charges the toothbrush, it has a simple plastic case.
The screen is black and white instead of coloured, but this is an easy trade-off to make. When you turn on the brush for the first time, you use the two buttons to choose the language and set the light ring’s colour. Then you could use it even if you never installed the app, because you could switch between modes without it. But the app has a good guided cleaning mode that works well because it can tell which teeth you’re cleaning. More to come on that.
The handle of the brush isn’t very easy to hold, but if you keep it dry, it’s not a big deal. The hard part is keeping it dry, because the stem of the brush head is quite wide. In my tests, this made it hard to make a seal around it to stop water from running down the brush handle.