This paper extends many conclusions based on phantom envelopes and Ext-phantom covers of modules, and we find that many important properties still hold after replacing phantom and Ext-phantom with $n$-phantom and $n$-Ext-phantom respectively. In addition, we also obtain some extra results. Specifically, we give a characterization of the weak dimensions of rings in terms of $n$-phantom envelopes and $n$-Ext-phantom covers of modules with the unique mapping property respectively. We show that $\operatorname{wD}(R) \leq 2n$ whenever every right $R$-module has an $n$-phantom envelope with the unique mapping property or every left $R$-module has an $n$-Ext-phantom cover with the unique mapping property over left coherent rings.