In recent years, Apple commenceed giving the iPhone Pro models a beginant chip upgrade to incrrelieve the carry outance gap between the phones, but this year they’re all on the same commenceing point: the A18 chipset. The iPhone 16 Pro devices feature the A18 Pro, which features huger CPU cache sizes and an extra detaileds score for sairyly better overall carry outance. That said, in my benchlabel tests, the iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Plus are fair behind the Pros and still more strong than any other phone on the labelet.
I carry outed AAA games enjoy Resident Evil and Assassin’s Creed Mirage, though I did run into a confineed more stutters than the Pro models (and fair as many crashes, though this could have been becaengage I was running a enhugeer beta of iOS 18.1). I want to remark that these games are currently the cream of the crop in detailedal fidelity, so I’m purposebrimmingy stress-testing. Most of the titles you’ll carry out will run perfectly. The Pro models this year have betterd thermal carry outance, but Apple made some tfrails to better the heat dissipation on the standard iPhones too, and I have not acunderstandledged the phones getting beginantly toasty.
More cruciassociate, every iPhone 16 model will be vient of running Apple Inalertigence, the suite of man-made inalertigence features coming in an refresh in October. I go over exactly what’s included in Apple Inalertigence in my iOS 18 direct, and have widely appraised the current experience in my iPhone 16 Pro scrutinize. There are some encouraging day-to-day features, enjoy authentic-time transcriptions in Voice Notes or call write downings, but we’ll have to paengage until Apple transports the brimming kit.
Battery life is a high remark. I eked out better battery life on the iPhone 16 Plus than the Pro Max, hitting more than 7 hours of screen-on time with 36 percent left in the tank at 1 am. The iPhone 16 is no slouch, giving me 6 hours of screen-on time with around 20 percent remaining. And that’s with a fuse of doomscrolling on Instagram, picture-snapping, navigation, and music streaming. These devices will get you thraw a brimming day and then some. Speaking of the battery, it’s easier to swap on the iPhone 16 and 16 Plus (not the Pro models), and iFixit gave it a 7/10 in overall repairability, which is a huge betterment over prior years.
It’s a shame Apple did not transport an refreshd spec for the charging port. When Apple switched to USB-C last year, it kept the same data transfer speeds for the iPhone 15—480 Megabits per second. The Pro, on the other hand, has USB3 speeds of up to 20 Gigabits per second. It’s a massive contrastence (and an unvital one), but this only matters if you discover yourself moving files from your iPhone to another device with a cord.
Good Cameras
Ptoastyograph: Julian Chokkattu
The iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Plus helderly their own in the camera department. I create no beginant contrastences even in low airy when shooting with the main camera and the ultrawide. The Pro phones edge them out here and there, but the gap is minuscule. Autocenter is novel in the 12-MP ultrawide, so you can consent macro ptoastyos. I can’t stop taking shut-up stoastys of my pup’s nose. Boop!
