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iPhone 16 Pro and Pro Max hands-on
The Verge
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9/10/2024
We got some hands-on time with the new iPhone 16 Pro and Pro Max, which feature bigger displays with thinner bezels, revamped cameras, and Apple’s new Camera Control button, which is pretty fascinating.
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We're back in Cupertino for iPhones.
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It's iPhone season and the 16 is here.
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That's the iPhone 16, 16 Plus, the 16 Pro, and the 16 Pro Max.
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Should I talk about the button first?
00:21
So we're getting a new button this year.
00:23
It's called the camera control button.
00:25
It's kind of a mashup of a mechanical button and there's some haptic-taptic controls.
00:30
Basically, it'll launch the camera app from wherever you are on the lock screen or the
00:33
phone and you can control some of the settings and take a picture or start video.
00:39
It's pretty cool.
00:40
I love a button.
00:41
I love taking photos, so it's a win.
00:44
Played around with it a little bit and it's kind of funny getting a feel for it.
00:47
You kind of have to push pretty hard to take a photo and then you kind of have to do a
00:51
light double tap to change the settings and slide your finger across to change the zoom
00:57
or whatever.
00:58
I don't know.
00:59
I think I'll get used to it, but we'll see.
01:01
So the camera control is on all four phones.
01:04
Pro phones get an A18 Pro chipset this year and they get bigger screens.
01:09
Both other phones are a little bit wider and a little bit taller, so there's just a little
01:13
more screen real estate.
01:14
The Pro is a 6.3-inch screen now and the Pro Max is a 6.9-inch screen, which is huge.
01:20
We got a new color this year called Desert Titanium, which is kind of a goldish color.
01:27
It looks better than I thought it would in person.
01:30
It looked a little bit brown in the rumors, I'm not going to lie, and I like what they
01:34
did here.
01:35
There's a bunch of new camera features we didn't really get to test in this space.
01:38
There's 4K video at 120fps now.
01:41
There's a new microphone array, so some video stuff we're going to have to put through the
01:45
paces.
01:46
So you'll notice right off the bat on the iPhone 16 and 16 Plus that the camera bump
01:51
went kind of sideways this year.
01:53
It looks a little different and it enables spatial video in case you have an Apple Vision
01:57
Pro lying around at home.
02:00
I don't know.
02:01
There are new colors this year and they're definitely a lot more saturated than they
02:05
were last year.
02:06
So there's a teal, an ultramarine, and a pink and they look great.
02:11
So the regular iPhones come with an A18 chip this year.
02:15
It's not a Pro chip, but it's in the same family.
02:18
And what ties them all together is this Apple Intelligence, the set of AI features we heard
02:24
about it at WWDC.
02:26
We heard a lot about it today.
02:28
And the demo units we tested had some of those features live.
02:32
We got the little glowing Siri and some of the AI writing features, but the catch is
02:39
they're not going to be shipping on these phones.
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They're coming later this year and they'll be available first in beta.
02:45
The 16 and the 16 Plus also get the action button that came on the Pro models last year.
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So that's a feature for everybody now.
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And you know, if you're feeling spicy, you can program your coffee order in there.
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I don't know.
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It's a free idea.
03:00
All the new iPhone 16 models are available to pre-order this Friday, September 13th.
03:07
Spooky day.
03:08
They're all going to ship the following Friday, the 20th.
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