Apple iPhone 16 Pro

Apple iPhone 16 Pro Description

The iPhone 16 Pro is perhaps the most improved of all four models Apple showed off at the Glowtime event. We've not reviewed it yet, but we have high hopes of its quality.

The display's gotten larger, the cameras have been improved across the board, the battery's been enlarged and the chip made even more powerful. Combined with Apple Intelligence features, including the new Visual Intelligence ability, and some awesome creative powers like Cinematic Slow Motion will hopefully make this the new ultimate iPhone

• Design and display: Brighter 6.3-inch display, camera control button
• Cameras: Bigger 48MP main "Fusion" sensor, 48MP ultrawide, and 5x telephoto lens
• AI features: Visual Intelligence, Apple Intelligence features in several Apple apps, including Photos and Notes
• Specs: A18 Pro chip, up to 1TB storage, Wi-Fi 7
• Colors: Black titanium, white titanium, natural titanium, and desert titanium
• Battery: Size increase from iPhone 15 Pro
• Software: iOS 18

The iPhone 16 looks different from prior iPhones—the camera arrangement is vertical rather than diagonal—but otherwise, they're identical. The iPhone 16 Pro range better resembles their predecessors but is slightly bigger: the iPhone 16 Pro has a 6.3-inch screen (up from 6.1 inches), and the iPhone 16 Pro Max is 6.9 inches (up from 6.7 inches). The phones aren't dramatically bigger, but Apple has shaved the borders around the screen to maximize screen space.

But there is a new button gracing the iPhone's hardware: Camera Control. This is like a physical shutter button on cameras—a hard press takes a photo, a long press takes a video, and you can now make a light press to enable a cleaner viewfinder without all the user interface elements. Within this light press, you can slide your finger on the Camera Control button to swipe through zoom levels; if you do a double light press, you can move through other modes. You can use this light press to maintain the focus on a specific subject when capturing videow.

Unlike recent iPhones, all the iPhone 16 models use the same chip: the A18. Well, almost. The iPhone 16 and 16 Plus use the A18, whereas the Pro models have the “A18 Pro.” These chipsets have a neural processing unit that is twice as fast at processing AI tasks. Apple says it has beefed up the system's memory (RAM) by 17 percent, which should help run processor-intensive AI features too.

The A18 is built on the 3-nanometer process and is 60 percent faster than the iPhone 12 and 30 percent faster than the iPhone 15, according to Apple. On the graphics end, you can expect a 40 percent speed bump in graphics-intensive tasks. For the Pro models, Apple says, the neural engine is 15 percent faster than the previous A17 Pro, the GPU is 20 percent faster, and the CPU is 16 percent speedier. The A18 Pro has one extra GPU core over the A18, but the CPU also technically performs slightly faster than the A18 because there are larger cache sizes.