It might look like Apple is behind the competitors plenty of the time. The corporate seemed to be gradual to developments like widgets, bezel-less shows with digital camera notches and screens with excessive refresh charges. And with the iPhone 16 Professional, it seems to as soon as once more be late to the occasion, bringing generative-AI options and an actual button for the digital camera to its 2024 flagship. However should you’ll permit me to play therapist for a second, I believe it isn’t that Apple is gradual. I believe Apple is cautious. Maybe overly so.
Warning by itself is not a nasty trait — in reality, it could possibly be thought of considerate. Quite than rush to the innovative with its friends, Apple deliberates, often discovering a barely completely different method that’s usually an enchancment on what’s on the market. Simply take a look at the Imaginative and prescient Professional headset or Apple Silicon. And even the iPod, the iPad and the AirPods, which had been removed from the primary of their form once they launched.
With the iPhone 16 Professional, the main target is on cameras and Apple Intelligence. The issue is, Apple Intelligence is not fairly right here but. We will check some options within the developer beta that is at the moment out there, however that is not essentially the identical because the expertise the general public will get when the replace rolls out in October. It’s not unprecedented for brand spanking new iPhones to launch with out some marquee options, certain, and fortunately there’s nonetheless lots that the iPhone 16 Professional brings. From Digital camera Management, the Fusion Digital camera and different video-related updates to barely larger shows and iOS 18, the iPhone 16 Professional and Professional Max are intriguing successors, even absent the vaunted Intelligence options which are nonetheless to return.
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The iPhone 16 Professional is a good flagship with glorious, quick cameras and modifying instruments. However chances are you’ll must cost it greater than as soon as to final all day.
Editors’ word: The present rating displays our expertise with the {hardware} and iOS 18 options that will likely be out there to customers at launch. We’ll consider Apple Intelligence and different post-launch options over the approaching weeks and months, and should alter our evaluate rating if warranted.
- Quick digital camera with prime quality video seize
- Photographic types are efficient and fairly
- Good customizations out there all through
- Comparatively brief battery life
- Digital camera Management is not good
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The iPhone 16 Professional Max affords glorious cameras and modifying instruments, a big roomy display screen, lengthy battery life and the most effective that Apple has to supply.
Editors’ word: The present rating displays our expertise with the {hardware} and iOS 18 options that will likely be out there to customers at launch. We’ll consider Apple Intelligence and different post-launch options over the approaching weeks and months, and should alter our evaluate rating if warranted.
- Glorious cameras with minimal shutter lag
- Lengthy-lasting battery
- Nice picture and video modifying updates
- Good customization choices all through
- Digital camera management is not good
Video evaluate of the iPhone 16 Professional
The iPhone 16 Professional’s design and shows
I’m getting deja vu. Trying again at my evaluate of the iPhone 15 Professional, I see an image of that telephone and its predecessor lined up facet by facet to point out simply how a lot thinner the bezels are. Apple has as soon as once more trimmed the borders on its flagship telephones, however whereas doing that enabled it to scale back the handsets’ dimension in 2023, this yr it allowed the corporate to cram in bigger screens with out a lot change in footprint.
The iPhone 16 Professional and Professional Max shows have elevated in dimension from 6.1 inches and 6.7 inches as much as 6.3 inches and 6.9 inches, respectively. Each handsets have grown ever so barely, too, by slightly below 1mm in width and about 3mm in peak.
Principally, the iPhone 16 Professional and Professional Max are a hair wider and taller than their predecessors, however preserve the identical 8.25mm (0.32-inch) profile. And but, despite this minimal change, you gained’t be capable to maintain your outdated instances should you’re upgrading from an iPhone 15 Professional to an iPhone 16 Professional.
Not solely would the instances not fairly match, you’d additionally want one thing with both a cutout or a sapphire crystal and conductive layer to have the ability to use the brand new Digital camera Management. After all, Apple sells suitable instances, as do some third events like Otterbox, so you’ve got loads of choices.
I’ve spent most of this yr’s {hardware} evaluate season remarking how Samsung and Google’s flagships really feel like iPhones, and I’ve now reached a wierd inception level. As I’ve been evaluating competing telephones for this evaluate, I’ve been surrounded by a few dozen handsets from all these completely different corporations on my sofa, together with final yr’s iPhones, the Galaxy S24 Plus and the Pixel 9 Professional and Professional XL. Attempting to determine which one is the iPhone has turn out to be extra complicated than ever, as all of them really feel related in construct. One of the best ways to confirm at a look is their digital camera arrays or my wallpaper.
All that’s to say that the iPhone 16 Professional feels just like its predecessor, which is what these different corporations have been making an attempt to emulate. Apple can be proper to really feel flattered by this imitation, and but I’ve to surprise if it’s time to do one thing completely different. Google’s Pixel 9 Professional is definitely a complete six grams lighter than the iPhone 16 Professional at 221 grams (7.79 ounces), and I’m completely obsessed with its wealthy pink hue and glossy edges. Although I like the brand new golden Desert shade for the iPhone 16 Professional, I do want Apple’s premium flagship had extra enjoyable and vibrant exteriors. That stated, I do love the bottom iPhone 16 in pink, teal and Ultramarine.
Digital camera management is (not) only a button
Arguably the largest change to the iPhone 16 lineup, to not point out the iPhone 16 Professional, is the introduction of Digital camera Management. It is a button on the proper facet of the gadget, which has contact and strain sensors on it to allow larger management with swipes and semi-presses. (That’s along with the Motion Button on the highest left that was added to final yr’s Professionals, and carries over to the iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Plus, too.)
One of many issues this was imagined to do was allow you to push evenly on the button to set off focus, just like what half urgent a DSLR shutter button would do. That operate gained’t be out there at launch, so I can’t say if it’s efficient.
However by and enormous, Digital camera Management is a really Apple method to a function that has been round for years. From telephones by Sony and Nokia with devoted shutter buttons to Android handsets with hardware-based double-click shortcuts, the notion of fast entry to your digital camera with out having to futz with the display screen is a well-liked one. For good cause, too — I’ve hated having to swipe or long-press the icon on my iPhone’s lock display screen previously, and although I may set the iPhone 15 Professional’s Motion button to open the digital camera, it simply wasn’t positioned properly and I’d have to surrender my mute button.
So Apple isn’t breaking new floor with its {hardware} shortcut for a continuously used app. However it does do a couple of issues otherwise with the contact sensor. You may swipe on it to tweak issues like publicity, zoom ranges and tone, and the half-press nonetheless works as a solution to choose choices or return out of menus inside the new Digital camera Management interface. In idea, it’s a pleasant solution to make adjustments on the fly.
In actuality, there have been a couple of points, they usually largely must do with placement. The button sits somewhat farther from the bottom of the telephone than I’d like, so my fingers have to achieve a bit extra to press it, whether or not I used to be in panorama or portrait mode. This wasn’t often an issue once I had each arms free and will regular the iPhone with my different hand and readjust my grip.
However should you’re attempting to take a fast shot with only one hand, the button’s location can really feel unintuitive. After all, everybody has completely different finger lengths and ratios, so it’s solely potential that different folks discover this logical. It additionally is dependent upon your grip — should you’re cradling the underside of the gadget in your palm, it’s more durable to maneuver. For those who’re masking a part of the display screen and reaching for the button head on, it’s barely simpler to make use of digital camera management.
Nonetheless, even for these with the strongest claws, swiping and half-pressing and double-half-pressing on the sensor is hard. I used to be solely ever actually ready to do this if I had my thumb holding up the underside edge and my center, ring and little fingers steadying the proper finish of the telephone. Perhaps it is a new digital camera grip I simply must relearn for this button.
The awkward placement is a minor gripe in comparison with what I discovered most annoying: the button’s contact sensor. Not solely was it tough to swipe by means of completely different settings when holding the gadget with one hand, it additionally reacts to unintended touches and swipes. Typically, the telephone would slide down my palm and alter the publicity or zoom degree, fully ruining the vibe. I ought to level out that you may go into accessibility settings to both tweak the swipe sensitivity or flip it off altogether, if it actually bothers you. Truthfully, should you’re planning on making changes with Digital camera Management, it’s finest to have time, endurance and each arms free.
In these conditions, I had plenty of enjoyable modifying settings and watching them be mirrored within the viewfinder in actual time. I additionally favored zooming out and in of topics, recomposing a shot and tweaking publicity until I favored what I noticed, earlier than then pushing right down to snap the image. (This motion does result in some small points, however extra on the precise picture high quality later.) I particularly beloved this whereas recording video, because it makes slowly zooming in or out of a topic smoother than utilizing the onscreen slider.
Then once more, for situations the place I simply need to fireplace off a fast shot with out worrying about publicity or zoom settings, the ache of finagling with the sensor principally goes away. In trade, with the ability to quickly snap photos is a pleasure. I discovered myself taking extra photos than ever due to digital camera management, which if me is a feat worthy of the Guinness E book of Data.
A random individual minimize me off in line? Click on. Humorous signal on a constructing I cross by in a Lyft? Click on, click on. Out of your lock display screen, you’ll must press the button twice — as soon as to wake the telephone up and as soon as to open the digital camera. Then press once more to take the picture. It’s not excellent, however not too far off the identical course of on a Pixel telephone, as an illustration. Plus, you’ll be able to long-press the iPhone’s button to begin recording a video, and it’ll mechanically cease if you let go.
This kind of fast entry to the digital camera is the most effective factor concerning the new button, and I may see it being doubtlessly helpful not only for shutterbugs like me, however for the upcoming Visible Intelligence function that Apple teased at its launch occasion. The corporate’s model of Google Lens may permit folks to ask questions on issues in the true world round them. However in fact, since this wasn’t out there throughout my evaluate interval, I wasn’t in a position to check it.
For now, you’ll be able to go into Settings to both change the variety of clicks it takes to set off the digital camera app, remap it to a Code scanner or the Magnifier instrument or disable it altogether. Since you may as well arrange the Motion button to do these items, you’ve got extra decisions now over the place you need your digital camera shortcut or liberate the previous quantity slider to do one thing else.
The iPhone 16 Professional: Fusion digital camera for quick and gradual moments
Even should you’re not a glutton for buttons, there are nonetheless some digital camera updates which may intrigue you. This yr’s flagships sport what Apple calls a 48-megapixel Fusion Digital camera, which has a sooner quad-pixel sensor. This permits what the corporate describes as “zero shutter lag,” which is wording it has used repeatedly through the years. On this case, it’s referring to how rapidly the digital camera will seize a shot after you press the shutter button (onscreen or {hardware}).
I’ll admit I used to be initially confused by this replace, partially as a result of it requires relearning some behaviors I had adopted to mitigate the shortfalls of older cameras. Principally, the iPhone 16 Professional’s cameras are actually so quick that once I requested somebody to toss stuff so I may seize it in movement to see how nonetheless the pictures had been, my pictures ended up being of the individual holding the thing.
Our video producer and I had been very confused, and it wasn’t till the “zero shutter lag” idea was defined clearer to me that I received it. I had turn out to be used to urgent the shutter early since cameras, in my expertise, can be fractions of a second gradual. Apple has turn out to be so quick that it really captured the literal second I tapped the button, as an alternative of the cut up second after, when the thing was in mid-air.
That is going to vary how folks take soar pictures, I’m certain, however principally should you and your mates are taking photos of yourselves floating within the sky, the photographer doesn’t must hit seize earlier than telling you to leap. I do know it is a very particular and foolish instance, nevertheless it’s additionally essentially the most relatable illustration of how a lot faster the Fusion digital camera is.
Additionally, why can’t digital camera tales be foolish and enjoyable? That’s what plenty of the most effective moments in life are, and a number of the new options are nice in these conditions. The help for 4K video at 120 fps in Dolby Imaginative and prescient, for instance, led to some lovely high-quality, wealthy and colourful clips of my buddy’s cute pomeranian trotting alongside on a stroll. Her little tongue slowly peeking out as she bounded in the direction of the digital camera regarded crisp and easy once I performed it again at 25 p.c and 20 p.c speeds, too.
The iPhone 16’s new Photographic Types are glorious
Relying in your temper, the brand new Photographic Types will be enjoyable or critical. Apple’s tweaked the built-in digital camera filters to not solely supply extra choices however provide you with larger management. As a result of how the corporate has refined its processing every year, there’s additionally an improved depth map captured when it detects a face within the scene. This, mixed with a larger give attention to shade science round skintone, has led to what is perhaps my favourite new iPhone 16 function.
Whether or not I shot them in Portrait mode or not, pictures of people who I took utilizing the iPhone 16 Professional had been a dream to edit. Merely switching between the Customary, Pure, Luminous, Quiet or Ethereal types already resulted in enhancements to the colours and shadow, however I may additionally faucet on every thumbnail to entry the brand new modifying touchpad and drag a dot round. This let me extra exactly tweak the hues and distinction ranges, and an extra slider under let me alter how heat the picture was.
An unpleasant selfie with my cousin within the hideous overhead lights of a gathering room grew to become a gorgeous snapshot after I switched to the Ethereal or Luminous types. Each of these are rapidly changing into my favorites, however I’m extra impressed with how properly Apple was in a position to section the topic from the background. In virtually each shot I edited, adjusting the slider principally solely modified the background, holding folks and their complexions inside the realm of actuality as an alternative of making use of harsh oversaturation or excessive distinction ranges to them. In addition they added a background blur that lent a pleasing tender focus impact, and more often than not the system precisely recognized outlines of individuals within the scene.
Maybe my favourite half is the truth that you’ll be able to change between types after you’ve shot the picture on the iPhone 16. As somebody who dwells on her Instagram filters and edit instruments for a while earlier than every submit, I undoubtedly respect how a lot nicer Apple’s variations are and solely want I may retroactively apply them to pictures I had taken at a latest wedding ceremony. Alas, because the edits are depending on info captured when the pictures had been taken, these new retouching options will solely work for photos taken with an iPhone 16 or 16 Professional.
Audio Combine on the iPhone 16 is… blended
One closing digital camera replace I’ll contact on earlier than telling you about precise picture high quality is Audio Combine. This makes use of the spatial audio now recorded by default with the brand new studio mics on the iPhone 16 Professional (and even the system on the iPhone 16 and 16 Plus) to grasp the course of sound sources in your footage. Then, if you edit the clip, you’ll be able to select between Customary, In-frame, Studio and Cinematic mixes, in addition to drag a slider to scale back background noise.
You’ll must be recording in pretty particular acoustic situations to get essentially the most out of Audio Combine. I examined it in quite a lot of conditions, like my cousin speaking on his telephone on a busy New York avenue, me interviewing my fellow gymnasium buddies after a tiring exercise with the background music quietly taking part in or my buddy speaking to me whereas his spouse talks about one thing else off-camera of their pretty quiet kitchen.
For essentially the most half, going to Cinematic or Studio modes from Customary resulted in a noticeable discount in environmental noise. My favourite is Studio, which typically appeared to enhance voice readability as properly, making folks sound like they could possibly be speaking on a podcast. In-frame, nevertheless, not often did what I anticipated and sometimes produced some warped distortion. It seems there may have to be extra distance between varied sources of sound for this to work finest, and I’ve to spend extra time testing to higher perceive this instrument. You may try our evaluate video for examples of a clip with completely different audio mixes, however for now, whereas the promised enhancements aren’t what I anticipated, there a minimum of seems to be some profit to Audio Combine.
The iPhone 16 Professional’s pictures versus the Pixel 9 Professional
On to the precise pictures and the way they maintain up towards the competitors. I’ve lengthy thought of Google’s Pixel telephones to be the gold customary in smartphone images, since I desire the corporate’s shade and element processing. I do know some folks really feel that Google tends to oversharpen, so keep in mind that, as with most issues, your desire could also be completely different from mine.
Once I in contrast pictures I took with each telephones on the identical laptop computer display screen, the variations had been minimal. Sometimes, Google would expose higher, being extra in a position to retain shadows close to a vivid gentle supply than the iPhone 16 Professional. However the Pixel’s nightscape pictures had extra gentle leakage into the sky, whereas Apple was more proficient at holding the background darkish towards the define of a skyscraper.
Truthfully at this level we’re actually nitpicking and pixel-peeping to search out variations. Each corporations ship nice cameras, and although I nonetheless desire Google’s method to Portrait pictures, Apple has been slowly however absolutely closing the hole with enhancements to its depth maps yearly.
I’ll point out, although, that much more of the pictures I shot on the iPhone 16 Professional got here out blurrier than the Pixel 9 Professional, and it might need to do with the truth that I used to be utilizing the Digital camera Management to snap them. This was the difficulty I alluded to earlier, the place utilizing a bodily button to take an image is extra prone to introduce shake than a software program shutter. It’s not like Samsung or Google telephones are resistant to this downside, although I’ll say that the way in which Digital camera Management is constructed, the place the recessed button depresses into the telephone’s body, does go away it a bit extra susceptible to this than, say, utilizing a quantity rocker may.
Oh and eventually, a fast word for my Gen Z readers: I understand how a lot you all desire flash images in comparison with night time modes in low gentle situations. (Because of my a lot youthful cousin for the precious perception.) I’ve accomplished the testing and might say that I desire Google’s Pixel 9 Professional for its software program, hotter flash in comparison with the iPhone 16 Professional’s, which is stronger and brighter, resulting in my face wanting washed out.
iOS 18 is right here, however not Apple Intelligence
It’s been about two months because the public beta for iOS 18 was launched, and it was good to get a style of upcoming options like the brand new customizable residence pages, expanded Tapback reactions and the redesigned Images app. With the iPhone 16 launch, iOS 18 is principally prepared for primetime… with some caveats.
This yr, greater than ever, it’s arduous to determine what’s coming to your iPhone and what isn’t. With the discharge of Apple Intelligence slated for October, options like writing instruments, Cleanup for pictures and the redesigned Siri gained’t be prepared until subsequent month. And even then, your non-pro iPhone 15 gained’t be suitable.
Plus, some options that had been teased at WWDC, like Genmoji, nonetheless haven’t been added to the iOS 18.1 developer beta, which is the place most Apple Intelligence options have been arriving as a preview for app makers. Throughout the iPhone 16 lineup, too, there are issues coming solely to the Professional fashions, like multilayer recording in Voice Memos.
It’s complicated, and might make selecting your iPhone a trickier determination. However for this evaluate, a minimum of the iPhone 16 Professional and Professional Max are getting the whole lot. I can’t wait to check out multi-track recording in Voice Memos, and I hope Apple sees this craving as an indication that it ought to deliver this to extra units.
It was good to get time with iOS 18, even within the absence of Apple Intelligence. Truthfully, I’m not even certain I’d like these options that a lot. In the same means, Gemini AI was good on the Pixel 9 Professional collection, however didn’t really feel like must-haves.
Among the new iOS 18 touches I seen instantly had been the refreshed Management Heart, which took some getting used to as I needed to re-learn the way to swipe again to the house web page, since there are extra pages to scroll by means of now. I particularly loved seeing the brand new little chat bubble seem on my voice recordings, indicating {that a} transcript had been generated for them. And although I haven’t exchanged messages with Android-toting associates but, I’m glad to see RCS help is lastly reside this week.
Although I used to be excited for the brand new customized routes instrument in Maps, I struggled to really create them. You may set your begin and finish factors and have the app shut the loop for you, or simply faucet landmarks or factors on the map to get the path to principally join the dots. Sadly, irrespective of what number of instances I attempted to get the route to chop by means of a constructing the place I knew a pedestrian walkway existed, Maps resisted me at each flip, forcing the path to undergo extra established (and subsequently extra crowded) paths as an alternative. It’s not unreasonable, however actually not the open-world route-creation function I used to be envisioning.
The perfect factor about iOS 18, and in addition some new options within the iPhone 16 lineup (like within the digital camera controls) is the customizability. I do respect that should you don’t like one thing, you’ll be able to often flip it off. With the brand new skill to put apps outdoors of a inflexible grid, now you can lay your property display screen out simply the way in which you want. The redesigned Images app helps you to create and pin collections so you’ll be able to extra simply discover the images most necessary to you. And once more, I’m glad Apple is giving folks the choice to show off Digital camera Management altogether or alter its sensitivity.
Efficiency and battery life
The iPhone 16 Professional and Professional Max are powered by Apple’s A18 Professional chip, that are constructed on “second-generation 3-nanometer technology and [feature] a new architecture with smaller, faster transistors.” All that is meant to ship “unprecedented efficiency,” based on Apple’s press launch.
Some small software program glitches apart, I’ve by no means run into slowdown on the iPhone 16 Professional, however I used to be actually stunned by the smaller handset’s battery life. Generally, the iPhone 16 Professional would barely final a full day, which is paying homage to the iPhone 15 Professional, too. It’s value noting that earlier than this evaluate I used to be primarily utilizing an iPhone 15 Professional Max as my day by day driver, which often will get by means of a day and a half with no downside, so the drop in endurance is much more pronounced for me.
Most days, I’d decide up the iPhone 16 Professional at about 9AM and would get to about 9pm earlier than getting low battery alerts. If I began the day a bit later, nearer to 11AM as an illustration, I received to 1am earlier than the iPhone 16 Professional ran fully dry. On Sunday, I unplugged the telephone at about 9:30AM and was shocked on the prepare residence to get a warning that remaining energy was at simply 20 p.c. It was solely 6:50PM, and the night time had barely simply began!
You’ll get considerably higher battery life on the iPhone 16 Professional Max, which delivers the identical virtually two-day runtime as its predecessor. And certain, a telephone with a smaller battery not lasting as lengthy makes mathematical sense. However contemplating the Pixel 9 Professional is a comparably sized handset and manages to final about two days, there’s no excuse for the iPhone 16 Professional to conk out earlier than the night time is up.
Which iPhone 16 do you have to get?
The most effective issues concerning the iPhone 16 Professional lineup is that, in contrast to final yr, there isn’t a lot of a tradeoff in cameras should you go for the smaller gadget. The iPhone 15 Professional Max had a 5x telephoto zoom digital camera, whereas the iPhone 15 Professional solely went as much as 3x. As a budding photographer of skittish wild animals, I opted for the Max, particularly because it was a lot lighter than its predecessor due to the titanium construct.
With the iPhone 16 Professional having primarily the identical digital camera system because the Professional Max, I believed it was time for me to return to a dimension that was a lot simpler on my arms. Alas, with the disappointing battery efficiency, I would simply have to stay with a Max, and also you may too.
There’s additionally the non-Professional iPhone 16 fashions to contemplate, and you’ll try my colleague Billy Steele’s evaluate of the iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Plus for extra particulars. Simply as there have been fewer variations than ever between the Professional and Professional Max, the tradeoffs aren’t as important this yr, both. Apple introduced the beforehand Professional-exclusive Motion button to the iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Plus, whereas additionally together with the Digital camera Management on its less-premium telephones.
The principal issues that set the 2 strains aside this yr are processors, display screen high quality, digital camera sensors and onboard mics. You’ll lose help for ProRaw pictures and multi-layer recording by choosing the cheaper units, too. Principally, if you need all the most effective options Apple has to supply, otherwise you plan on utilizing your telephone to create high-quality movies and get 5x telephoto zoom in your pictures, the Professionals are the way in which to go.
In any other case, you’ll nonetheless have all of the iOS 18 and Apple Intelligence options coming to the Professionals, in addition to spatial audio recording, which allows the Audio Combine I described within the digital camera part earlier.
Wrap up
Apple’s warning is typically warranted. Particularly at a time when distrust of AI-generated content material runs rampant, the corporate taking its time to get Apple Intelligence proper is comprehensible. However its deliberation doesn’t all the time result in winners. Whereas I respect the try and differentiate digital camera management with the contact sensor for extra versatility, I’m not but satisfied of its usefulness.
The excellent news is, and I can’t stress this sufficient, you’ve got the choice to tune it to your liking. And that’s a theme I’m seeing in latest Apple options that trace at extra thoughtfulness than common. For those who don’t like one thing, or if one thing isn’t proper in your wants, you’ll be able to alter or disable it. In iOS 18, you’ve got larger management over your property display screen’s app format and might pin customized collections for simpler attain within the Images app. The Motion button launched final yr may have been a spectacular fail had Apple not allow you to nonetheless maintain it as a mute swap, nevertheless it managed to present folks extra performance whereas sustaining the established order for individuals who are simply as resistant to vary.
Change is horrifying. Change is tough. However with out change there is no such thing as a progress. Apple’s cautious method is a difficult balancing act that’s evident on the iPhone 16 Professional. Some new options, like Audio Combine and customized routes in Maps, ship blended outcomes. Others, like Photographic Types, are hits. Then there are the fundamental substances, like good battery life and sturdy, engaging designs, that Apple can’t neglect.
The iPhone 16 Professional’s subpar battery life holds it again from beating the competitors, which is stiffer than ever this yr, particularly from Google. Fortunately for Apple, most individuals who’ve iPhones are going to stay with iPhones — it’s simply simpler. For these already sucked into the ecosystem, the iPhone 16 Professional (and notably the Professional Max) are definitely worth the improve from a mannequin that’s a minimum of two years outdated. If you have already got an iPhone 15 Professional (or perhaps a 14 Professional), for the sake of our planet and your pockets, you may desire to carry off on upgrading, particularly since this yr’s units aren’t that a lot completely different.
