Apple iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Plus Review: Why Go Pro?

In caller years, Apple started giving the iPhone Pro models a important spot upgrade to summation the show spread betwixt the phones, but this twelvemonth they're each connected the aforesaid starting point: the A18 chipset. The iPhone 16 Pro devices diagnostic the A18 Pro, which features larger CPU cache sizes and an other graphics people for somewhat amended wide performance. That said, successful my benchmark tests, the iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Plus are conscionable down the Pros and inactive much almighty than immoderate different telephone connected the market.

I played AAA games similar Resident Evil and Assassin's Creed Mirage, though I did tally into a fewer much stutters than the Pro models (and conscionable arsenic galore crashes, though this could person been due to the fact that I was moving a developer beta of iOS 18.1). I privation to enactment that these games are presently the pick of the harvest successful graphical fidelity, truthful I'm purposefully stress-testing. Most of the titles you'll play volition tally perfectly. The Pro models this twelvemonth person improved thermal performance, but Apple made immoderate tweaks to amended the vigor dissipation connected the modular iPhones too, and I person not noticed the phones getting importantly hot.

More importantly, each iPhone 16 exemplary volition beryllium susceptible of moving Apple Intelligence, the suite of artificial quality features coming successful an update successful October. I spell implicit precisely what's included successful Apple Intelligence successful my iOS 18 guide, and person broadly evaluated the existent acquisition successful my iPhone 16 Pro review. There are immoderate adjuvant day-to-day features, similar real-time transcriptions successful Voice Notes oregon telephone recordings, but we'll person to hold until Apple brings the afloat kit.

Battery beingness is simply a precocious note. I eked retired amended artillery beingness connected the iPhone 16 Plus than the Pro Max, hitting much than 7 hours of screen-on clip with 36 percent near successful the vessel astatine 1 am. The iPhone 16 is nary slouch, giving maine 6 hours of screen-on clip with astir 20 percent remaining. And that's with a premix of doomscrolling connected Instagram, picture-snapping, navigation, and euphony streaming. These devices volition get you done a afloat time and past some. Speaking of the battery, it's easier to regenerate connected the iPhone 16 and 16 Plus (not the Pro models), and iFixit gave it a 7/10 successful wide repairability, which is simply a immense betterment implicit anterior years.

It's a shame Apple did not bring an updated spec for the charging port. When Apple switched to USB-C past year, it kept the aforesaid information transportation speeds for the iPhone 15—480 Megabits per second. The Pro, connected the different hand, has USB3 speeds of up to 20 Gigabits per second. It's a monolithic quality (and an unnecessary one), but this lone matters if you find yourself moving files from your iPhone to different instrumentality with a cord.

Good Cameras

The iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Plus clasp their ain successful the camera department. I recovered nary important differences adjacent successful debased airy erstwhile shooting with the main camera and the ultrawide. The Pro phones borderline them retired present and there, but the spread is small. Autofocus is caller successful the 12-MP ultrawide, truthful you tin instrumentality macro photos. I can't halt taking close-up shots of my pup's nose. Boop!