As my basic device, and with this time, it has become my phone for everything from banking to photography. I have used it mostly naked or with a super slam case, and from the first day, I added a spagher glass dot tRZ fit screen protector, which is defective.
My use is quite common: social media, messaging, calls, and plenty of photos and video capping. I shoot most videos in 4K60 for smooth, high quality shape and later footage. I quickly realized that 256 GB is the least storage I need, though I am enjoying the extra space on the 512 GB model.
I haven’t relied on it every day, as I have experienced other devices for reviews, but 16 Pro has been my central phone for most of the year. The choice of standard pro on Pro Max was the right call for me: it is already a great side, heavy, but still managed for someone who usually prefers compact devices.
The performance is faster, and the loudspeaker keeps impressing – I often use it to listen to music without a headphone. Recently. , After almost a year of real -world use,
A reliable, high -performing daily driver has proved to be.
Most of my use consists of an unhealthy amount of Instagram rail viewing and messaging with friends, and I’m getting 16 pro on the screen time between 5 hours to 6 hours. What I found on 15 pro is a bit higher, but not much.
Overall, IPhone 16 Pro There is still a phone that you have to charge every day, unlike Pro Max that you can run for two days.
Charging is definitely one of the things I wish to improve on the iPhone, it is slowly, and supporting 45W fast charging will make a bigger difference than the current 25W speed.
But Magsaf has become an incredibly useful feature that has many accessories, from car mounts to a cold continuous camera feature from tripod that allows you to use your iPhone as a webcam. At work, I connect my MacBook Air with a dock, and a continuous camera is a life -saving for video calls.
Camera
Good: 5x zoom camera can be very useful
Bad: The upgraded ultra -wide camera was super hypid!
Many new phones, especially coming from China, get a lot of advertising to use large sensors, and when they do Excel in certain scenarios, I still know that the iPhone produces a huge balance of easy interface and camera quality.
One of its main part is the iPhone camera app, which is less key. Zooming controls are incredibly precise and perfectly perfectly better, and the switching between the lenses is barely noticeable. This is very important for videos, and I find this experience much better than any recent Galaxy or Pixel phone.
However, I have a love affection with a 5x zoom camera. On the one hand, I find my photography style almost almost almost completely useless. This can be useful for sports and concerts music, but I mostly take pictures of friends and family, and my li, I really miss 3x zoom lens that feel more practical.
On the other hand, to record videos, 5x zoom distance uses more for me. I recently launched an Instagram channel, which only shot dance videos with this 5X camera, and since many of these videos are on stage, 5 x zoom camera is really easy, which is found in detail.
Many of my friends were blown up to find out that all those videos were caught on a phone, and they were particularly impressed that I took them all with no gymnasiums or tripods, just holding my phone in their hands on the 5x zoom.
Still, I would prefer to see a 3.5x zoom camera that will attack the perfect balance – you can use it without being more tight for daily photography, and you can find the quality of the video at a long distance. Let’s see if the iPhone 17 does this.
48MP Ultra Wide Camera has been a French upgrade
Apple also made a big deal of the new ultra -wide camera of 48 megapixel IPhone 16 Pro. In my experience, the extremely wide camera does not get much use because it still feels less important and this upgrade has not changed much. Overall, the large number of 48 MPs on the paper did not translate into any of my most wide photos or videos.
As far as the camera control button is concerned, I have started using it a little, but it still doesn’t mean much for me.
I have set it up to take a picture, while a long press on the action button starts recording video for me, but this separation, while the theory is clear, proves to be very complicated to remember my mind.
Apps
Nice: The fastest UI, the best apps
Bad: Lock the Environmental System
I’m not saying that apps on the iPhone are better than apps on Android, but… they are of a kind!
My latest addiction is the VSco Capture Camera app, a wonderful creation that has tons of filters and effects that really bring your photography to the artistic level. Bloom effects can be copied with just a tap of the button using a special filter on the camera regularly. This creates an imaginary look I like. And guess what? That app is only available on iOS!
Pictures taken with VSCO CAPUTER (not available on Android)
On these few occasions, when I turned to Android phones, I was also very disappointed with the poor quality of the necessary apps. For example, most of the default seasonal apps were all crossing and the alternatives I received at the Google Play Store were affected by advertising or poor standards.
I know that these are just a couple of examples, and I know that most popular apps these days are available for both iOS and Android, but it is easy to improve the frequency of update and a limited number of form factors that make iOS apps naturally improve their Android counterparts.
The iPhone is also made a selection phone for creators with unprecedented video quality, meg safe for accessories, and general ease of use.
Appearance
Good: OK, not much!
Bad: very
There was no show on AI, in addition to a few hypeted niche features such as genimogy (which I have never literally used) and the image playground (so much of use) IPhone 16 Pro.
First the iPhone is frustrated for “made for AI”.
Do I miss AI on the iPhone? Yes, but not too much. The main use of my AI is still talking to a chat boot, and all of these chat boats, including chatgot, gym, cloud, etc., are available on the iPhone.
Certainly, they are not so integrated, but you can always assign your Action button to open a chatgot or gymnasium, such as Android.
I do not want to forgive Apple for lying at the time of launching the iPhone 16 series AI capabilities from my users, but at least my use, I am not losing AI so much.
Among the features I miss a bit are Samsung’s AI Photo Editor/Arizer, which has an incredibly capable of removing items in the image, or the ability to summarize YouTube videos that you find on a pixel phone.
My iPhone 17 Pro Vishlist
I am very happy with my time IPhone 16 ProBut there are some things I want to see in this IPhone 17 De
In a particular sequence:
- Silicon carbon battery technology for a large battery in a phone that weighs now
- As a result, I’m fine with 6.3 inches size, but I wish her weight was slightly less
- Change 5x camera for 3x or 3.5x
- A thoughtful act of AI
- 12 GB RAM
- Cheap storage upgrade (those prices are crazy)
Rumors will be identified as September 9, 2025 as the date when Apple will unveil its new mask IPhone 17 At the same time when we know about all the new features and see if Apple has detected some magical new feature (or AI for this matter).
