Compared to the iPhone 16, the iPhone 14 Pro provides an additional telephoto lens, a higher refresh rate, and the ability to record ProRes videos but misses out on Apple Intelligence features.

There you go: the biggest changes Apple’s new iPhone 16 will bring to your daily life. I swear I’m not trying to sell these things short. From powerful processors to (slightly) more sophisticated screens,

At its core, the iPhone 16 Pro is a slightly bigger and thicker iPhone 14 Pro, with two new buttons on the frame which happens to be made of grade 5 titanium rather than stainless steel. In terms of dimensions, the iPhone 16 Pro is slightly taller and very slightly thicker than the iPhone 14 Pro.

The iPhone 16 I tested doesn’t have the word “Pro” in its name, but it’s easy to forget that when I’m using its new dedicated camera shutter to capture a flower in painstaking detail. Or editing the audio mix of a live musical performance with a single tap.

The $999 iPhone 16 Pro and $1,199 iPhone 16 Pro Max have everything we've come to expect in a year-over-year upgrade. They lack Apple Intelligence at launch but make up for it in other ways.

This review is for the iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max. It’s worth saying right off the bat that unlike last year, the two Pro models are identical in every way apart from size, battery life and price tag.

The first reviews of the iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Plus have started to arrive, with reviewers seeing smaller updates in a device getting closer to the Pro line, albeit without Apple Intelligence.