Reviewing the iPhone 16

You’ve spent the past mates of days tweaking the icons connected your iOS 18 homescreen and luxuriating successful your rest days with WatchOS 11. Now Apple’s hoping you’ll upgrade adjacent further. The institution is getting acceptable to commencement selling the caller iPhone 16 lineup, the caller Apple Watch Series 10, and the caller AirPods 4 headphones.

We’ve been utilizing each the devices since they were announced past week, and we’re present to reply the question that matters most: is immoderate of this caller worldly worthy the money?

On this occurrence of The Vergecast, it’s wall-to-wall Apple reviews. First, we commencement with the iPhones, which The Verge’s Allison Johnson and Nilay Patel person been reviewing. We speech mostly astir the camera, because, well, the camera’s astir of what determination is to speech about. Allison and Nilay archer america astir their experiences with the Camera Control, the caller photography styles, cheque the “what is simply a photo” somesthesia of the caller devices, and effort to differentiate the 4 phones from each different and from their predecessors.

After that, Victoria Song comes connected to speech astir the Apple Watch Series 10. We weren’t capable to trial 1 of the Watch’s cardinal features — slumber apnea detection — up of our recording, but we did person plentifulness of clip to speech astir the caller design, the caller screen, and the caller features. Oh, and the caller speaker, astir which we are each profoundly conflicted.

Next, Chris Welch tells america astir his clip with the AirPods 4, and whether it’s worthy spending $50 to get exemplary with Active Noise Cancellation. These AirPods — with a dependable prime upgrade, a competitory price, and large promises astir sound absorption — mightiness beryllium hugely compelling if Apple got it each right. So... did Apple get it each right?

Finally, Allison returns, and we instrumentality a interruption from talking astir Apple to reply a question from the Vergecast Hotline (866-VERGE11, telephone us!) astir the lawsuit for the Pixel lineup successful 2024. It’s a beauteous bully twelvemonth for phones, and we person a batch to speech about.

If you privation to cognize much astir everything we sermon successful this episode, you should work each our reviews of Apple’s caller gadgets: