iPhone 15 Pro Review: The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly!
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This video is a comprehensive review of the iPhone 15 Pro, discussing its new features, improvements, and potential drawbacks. The reviewer breaks down the build materials, the transition to USB-C, the A17 Pro chip, battery performance, camera upgrades, and the new Action Button, offering insights into what makes the "Pro" model stand out.
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you know what's funny when there's not that many changes it really puts a magnifying glass on the few changes that there actually are have you ever listened to a car reviewer describe the latest generation Porsche 911 like this is a car that's looked more or less the same for the past 50 years with slight Evolutions with each new generation and literally every time you watch or read a review they always say every single time oh it's so refined oh this is an engineering Masterpiece that's been perfected over Generations it's a formula that's been developed in the same direction for years I actually as a kid I used to actively dislike Porsches because I just I knew they were expensive but I thought they're all so boring they all look like the same thing why would you get one of those when you could get a way more exciting Ferrari or McLaren instead but as I've gotten older I I can appreciate the Porsche formula a little more I don't love it or anything I wouldn't say I love it but I can appreciate it more does that make sense I hope that makes sense
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this is the iPhone 15. Pro not a lot of changes so okay I think people got to get this thought out of their head that you've got to upgrade every year to the newest phone like I realized most of us already know this but for some reason people are still stuck on this thing where they say oh last year's phone is is barely different from this year's phone it's not worth upgrading but like that's not new like the Zenfone 10 I just reviewed is just a refinement of the Zenfone 9 like the bleeding edge Rog phone has looked the same for three years now the pixel is finding its stride with design but what we're really looking for is for them to fix anything that's wrong or bad and then just find ways clever ways good interesting ways to just get a little bit better every year so that over a long time over a bunch of improvements it adds up to a bigger more significant change so that's what's happening here with this iPhone 15 Pro I've been using it for about two weeks now they've made some improvements but now we're starting to also see some possible problems some new issues that have risen up so uh let's talk about it so there's basically four new features they've added here I'm gonna go over some of the more fundamental and existential stuff in the regular iPhone 15 review so definitely make sure you're subscribed to see that when it comes out but for the pro it's time to Deep dive on the stuff that's unique to this one the uh professional stuff that being the build the chip the cameras and the action button so easiest place to start is the way they've built this phone so Apple made an update to the build and the materials of the iPhone this year they've softened the corners a little bit it's clearly still a boxy design but you know now instead of a completely flat glass at the front there's this gentle little curve just at the very edges I think that'll maybe make screen protectors slightly more intricate but I think it has a nice look to it and then the screen sizes are exactly the same but now the bezels are actually a tiny bit Slimmer all the way around so technically the phone is like one millimeter smaller diagonally and the rails have famously switched from that shiny stainless steel to a lighter coated and brushed titanium the result it's very slightly better I think it's fun it's kind of funny I've always Associated a heavy phone with like expensive feeling you know like the ceramic phones are like extra heavy they feel like substance but I understand why people want it to be lighter and so this phone is actually noticeably lighter than the previous Pro it's it's 10 on paper but it feels like more than 10 and then there's a new set of colors too so I'm sticking with it this new natural titanium is the best color this is the first year I am not ordering a dark or black iPhone they still look good don't get me wrong but they get all kinds of fingerprints on them like crazy and also my worries about the light colored scratches if you go deep enough we're all confirmed by Zach j-rig everything in his video cutting the thing up so because I'm on team no case I'm going with the all gray phone I think it looks dope so I'm going with that I think basically the idea is if if you have a perfectly working phone there's no world where you should upgrade to this one just for the titanium build or just for the slightly thinner bezels but you have to appreciate put this up next to an iPhone 11 then yeah you can see the differences compounding over time just like if you sat in a 992 generation 911 right now after sitting in a 997 generation car but the real highlight of this build here let's be honest is uh there's a new Port at the bottom that USB type c which makes a big difference to people like me who have other Gadgets in their life computers headphones mouse keyboard I just bring one charger it works with everything I have already had this rite of passage moment that everyone who gets this phone is going to have where you have an existing lightning cable and you try to plug it in and then you're like oh right new cable but now I've gotten used to it but the thing is I could I could have sworn Apple would do more with this port like okay we know that they're basically forced into doing this by the EU so shout out to the EU for that now I have a USB iPhone but like the only pitch is just hey one cable for everything that's it Apple really so like with 30 pin to lightning all those years ago the benefit was obvious it's just so much smaller of a port so that let them fit more stuff in the phone plus it's reversible now with this USB type c it's like okay it was already small it was already reversible charging speed did not improve at all it's still 25 watts there's no extra like desktop mode plug it into a monitor and get there's no decks or anything like that right it's just one cable for everything okay fine sure welcome to the club you know iPhone users can now take advantage of the you in USBC I talked about the handshake it does with plugging directly into other phones and reverse charging them at four and a half watts in the unboxing video that's pretty neat you can also plug in other things plug in a keyboard and type with it plug in a monitor it'll mirror your screen at up to 4K 60. and the profile now supports USB 3.0 data transfer speeds so you can get that prores footage off the phone noticeably faster and you can actually for the first time shoot video directly onto an external drive now there's some talk about the cable that comes in the Box remember that nice high quality braided USBC cable that comes in the Box but it's only USB 2.0 transfer speeds it's a slow cable so if you have a pro phone you need to get a faster separate cable for it that seemed weird to people but it's not that's very normal most smartphones come with just a USBC cable just to charge it's a charging cable if you wanted a data cable you'd have to buy a thicker more robust cable that looks the same but as a data cable it's kind of confusing and annoying actually welcome to the world of USBC my friends it's good to have you but that is a good segue to the main enabler the new Powerhouse chip inside this phone with a new name the a17 pro so the base iPhone 15s got last year's a16 bionic from the 14 pro and so here's this new more powerful chip in the highest end phones and it's not The a17 Bionic this is the first one with the pro Name a17 Pro and this thing goes kind of crazy on paper this is their first three nanometer chip actually the first three nanometer chip in any phone that we'll probably see for at least another year or two I ran some benchmarks it's literally approaching M1 chip levels of synthetic benchmark scores now compared to last year it's 10 to 20 percent more powerful on both the CPU and the GPU which is very respectable but more power is like more horsepower in a car it's only really useful or noticeable if it lets you do more things with it I'm going to live in this analogy a bit more for a minute but like the last generation Porsche 911 Turbo S it was already so ballistic fast that you never approach that limit anywhere on public streets until you get to the highest end of performance on the track and the highest end iPhone is the same way like the pro iPhone's been great at just surfing Instagram and texting and doing all the normal web browsing basic stuff you do on a phone and so the only place you'd really notice the extra performance is well we got a gaming demo Apple showed these wild demos on the new iPhone at the keynote and uh just a disclaimer I'm not much of a phone gamer so I'll defer the commentary on this to dave2d you can go watch his video link below but they literally launched exclusive games on the iPhone that are like Resident Evil Village and Assassin's Creed but not on Cut Down mobile versions these are literally the same versions with the same assets and same textures and everything from the PlayStation version because it literally is the PlayStation version that's impressive plus you know performance Headroom is never a bad thing but I think also for me and for a lot of other people the more impactful things that you'll actually notice about this new chip are in the dedicated parts of it that are for specific tasks like the new image signal processor lets you take really really fast lag free photos constantly the new neural engine recognizes portrait mode subjects like people's faces and dogs and cats automatically and lets you go back in time and set a regular photo to a portrait mode photo the USB 3 controller that enables faster data transfer speeds is also on the a17 pro all of that is coming from the new chip but what I'm more concerned with at the moment is battery life okay so actually it's kind of two main issues that have been popping up that you kind of have to try to figure out are they isolated issues are these real problems with the phone and those are battery life and overheating issues and to be honest part of the reason this review took like longer than normal is I've had I've been really trying to dig into the battery and figure out what's going on here so objectively speaking these phones have slightly bigger batteries than last year and a new three nanometer chip so in a controlled environment they should do better and they do they literally last longer on like simple Benchmark stuff so that's good news now when I test a phone like normal I pretty much I kind of go by feel I always have some mix of good days some average days and then some bad days where I can sort of figure out what's draining it what its weaknesses are and I can come to a conclusion from that so now here we are I get a couple days in I get a couple weeks in and I've had a good amount of average days I've had a couple of those bad draining days but I also haven't had any of those amazing days where I got like nine hours of screen on time I just haven't had any yet and then we also started to see some of those headlines about battery life potentially being worse and there's also some overheating issues popping up on Twitter or X and some people were asking if mine has had any issues so here's the weird answer yes but not what I would expect I was two days ago literally I was just at a golf tournament it was in Florida it was like a 100 degree real feel something crazy like that and I'm outside with my phone at Max brightness with GPS going all day out in the sun and it was fine no problem no overheating issues but then a couple hours later I'm on the airplane with my phone in airplane mode and I've got just like music playing on Bluetooth with Spotify and like scrolling through Instagram and for like five minutes the phone just gets really hot and just blasts through like five percent battery and then it's fine again afterwards and I'm like there there almost seems to be no Rhyme or Reason why it does this randomly once in a while so my best theory is that the a17 pro is just it's a more powerful chip and so therefore is able to drain power more quickly than before in high intensity settings like gaming Etc and there's also been some issues attributed to iOS 17 bugs like we're already on 17.0.2 I imagine there's some more updates coming to both iOS and a bunch of apps but by the end of this I kind of feel like I'm expecting battery life to basically even out to be the same as last year which is a boring answer but that's kind of what I expect now we can talk all we want about what the word Pro actually means in a smartphone but with iPhones that is mostly meant cameras and uh it turns out there is a lot going on with these relatively similar looking cameras on these new Pro phones both in hardware and software so you're looking at a new bigger 48 megapixel main camera there's also an improved Ultra wide with a closer up macro capability and a whole telephoto situation and that will get to in a minute but then with software there is this whole new intricate image processing pipeline happening so you know how most smartphones a lot of them today have like 48 megapixel cameras and they all bend down to 12 megapixels they give you 12 megapixel shots you know previous iPhones did this um this new one for those who might have missed it is actually by default spitting out 24 megapixel images instead of 12. and it's only about one and a half times the file size so this new process which is the same actually across the board for iPhone 15s and 15 Pros is it's taking a 48 megapixel full sensor shot for detail information and also taking a full sensor 12 megapixel shot which is the quad binning for light information and noise and then it's using the neural net to combine them and do a sort of a detail transfer to get you this hybrid 24 megapixel image it's very complicated very clever and the end result is slightly better it's really right in line with what I've been saying so if you just generally look at photos shot on this camera it's it's an iPhone photo like they look pretty great they're awesome with dynamic range and sharpness across the board I still prefer and shoot in the rich contrast profile most of the time but yeah mostly the iPhone is one of the best cameras at just pointing and shooting in full auto just getting results that look good even if it doesn't look the most like real life you know it's doing the classic re-lighting and tone mapping and everything we're used to from all this smart HDR it's all here and a lot of people like it and it looks good uh the improved macro mode is also really good and with this natural fall off with the primary camera without even needing portrait mode you can get some blurred backgrounds it's awesome autofocus is also really really fast especially whenever there's a face in the scene this thing loves seeing faces and the benefit of the bigger sensor shows itself at night too with even longer handheld captures it's not magic it's just physics but you know does the 24 megapixel make a difference over the 12 megapixel well zoomed out absolutely not they look basically the same so you got to zoom in and even at 50 Zoom you still can't really tell it's not until you zoom all the way in that you can okay you can see a difference you can start to notice a difference in fine detail and contrast the 15 Pro is definitely one you're pixel peeping more contrasty and sharp when you're all the way zoomed in versus last year but that's just when you've zoomed all the way in and by the way once you get past 2x Zoom it's back to kicking out regular 12 megapixel images so again this is it's like it's a small small year-over-year improvement with that tiny amount of like pixel peeping detail but over a longer distance over a bunch of generations that's the type of thing that adds up they even on the pro phones did a couple of presets from the 1X lens there's a 24 millimeter all the way zoomed out then a 28 millimeter a little bit tighter and a 35 millimeter that all have their own dedicated image processing pipeline press sets to maximize detail into these basically super res Zoom focal lengths that you can digitally Zoom between I would not exactly call it having extra lenses on the phone but you know 1.5 x zoom on last year's phone versus 1.5 x zoom on this year's phone slight difference but there is a difference honestly the most Pro things about these new phones though is definitely their video cameras so I'm just going to nerd out about these for a second because the iPhone's video capabilities I've talked about this so much but they are still so clearly far out in front of the rest of the smartphone World it doesn't even shoot 8K which is it's totally capable of with the 48 megapixels I wish they would let us but even just at 4K 30 in full auto the detail the autofocus the slight depth the dynamic range the stabilization they're all world class I mean if you want to just look at test footage the entire electric rivian delivery van review I did on the autofocus channel was shot on iPhone 15 Pro Audio included I'll drop the link below if you want to watch that whole thing also shout out to the New av1 Codex support on the chip that's going to play nice with YouTube but this year you can also shoot log literally a pro camera feature now it is annoyingly buried several layers deep in the separate Settings app which is really not very Pro but if you find the time to go switch over there and get into log the iPhone will shoot with way more information that classic flat log look dynamic range everything and you don't have to deal with whatever Apple was going to do with over sharpening and saturation and processing Apple has its own transformation Lut to turn it into SDR or HDR or you can go in and fully grade it yourself to really get the most out of the iPhone's video and it looks really like really really good so the one thing that I'm going to say to you know because I'm pixel peeping at this point is the haloing from point light sources you know it's one of the hardest challenges with these tiny Optics so I get why they haven't just fixed it yet but like it's pretty bad anytime there's any sort of Point lights especially with video despite whatever new lens coating they're doing it's pretty dramatic and it seems like it's the worst on the iPhone of any other phone so it's there gonna point it out again but hey if that's the biggest downside of iPhone video I'll definitely take it and then iPhone 15 Pro Max the big one is the only one that comes with the new 5x larger telephoto lens uh I would bet my life that that's going to come down to the smaller 16 Pro next year whatever but it's only the big one this time but yeah it does let you get a little further with Max Zoom from 15x to 25x it's nice if you do a lot of Zoom photos and videos which is a very specific crowd there's some people that do that you know concert goers things like that but there are just very few people who should buy one just for this lens because it also means you have to have a bigger phone and it also happens to mean that your 4X photos just before you get to 5x will actually be worse on this phone but yeah it's not nearly as capable as some of the longer telephoto periscope soap lens I mean Samsung has a 10x Optical lens that blows this one out the water in terms of reach I think Apple's main advantage really is just stabilization like they finally do that zoom in preview window on the corner of the viewfinder and they over stabilize the frame so you can zoom all the way in and get a shot in super creeper mode it's it's great but I'm just going to shamelessly borrow a line from Mr mobile because he said it as well as anyone possibly could and he's right which is just that so much of the differences between these cameras this one the last iphone the Samsungs the pixels of the world so much of the difference between them is software that is hardly even consistent anymore so if you are looking for like a hard verdict on like iPhone 15 Pro side by side versus Samsung versus pixel or Oppo or whatever else you kind of just have to make it up after a while like yeah there are going to be certain instances like exact Zoom focal lengths where one is sharper than the other but honestly at the end of the day a lot of it is going to be taste and so yeah yeah you just kind of have to figure out which one you like as far as image quality and especially UI just the actual way you shoot photos and videos which reminds me I do want to mention this raw Max button is hilarious this is this is a button to to take your full res 48 megapixel Pro Raw photos but it just says raw Max okay and if you want a 48 megapixel jpeg you have to jump back into the settings app switch it over then bounce back and now the button says jpeg Max which is also hilarious last thing I gotta say though this new Pro phone has an action button on this new Pro iPhone only because only pros need customization look I kind of love the action button but I also need to realize that it's it's it's kind of either overrated or underrated depending on who you are like on one hand it's literally a customizable button like who even saw this coming it replaces the least used button that was on previous iPhones because your phone should always be on mute anyway and so then you can map this action button to basically anything you want you can keep it as a mute switch and it has the same strong haptics so you can tell if it's muted or unmuted in your pocket without looking but there's also a bunch of other cool functions you can pick from from launching your camera to a voice recorder to just literally any app on your phone you want through a Siri shortcut your favorite YouTube channel right now is probably making a tutorial on the best series shortcuts to map to the action button from launching apps to to the specific things inside of apps from unlocking your car to not just launching my favorite task manager app but launching a new task inside of of my task manager app it just lets me it's great it's awesome honestly I hope it gets copied even though a bunch of phones were doing this years ago and then they stopped I hope they bring it back now in response to how great this is but on the other hand I I do kind of feel like for a lot of people this is gonna be one of those things that they play with for like a three or four days and then just kind of forget about it and never use it again and I mostly think that's because it's not super reachable like it's not a one-handable button where your fingers usually rest for everyone especially on the pro Max it's way up there in the corner above the volume buttons it could be a cool shutter button for the camera but the volume buttons already do that so yeah I feel like you might as well just end up setting it back to a mute switch and forgetting about it after a few weeks but I guess that's fine too it's one of those things that you'll just figure out which user you are after you use it for a while kind of like I've been using the new that eight Sleep mattress cover that I was talking about I've been using it for about three months now this is the Pod cover that goes on your mattress that either warms you up or cools you down helps you sleep like now that I've used it for a while I've understood like I was a skeptic at first but honestly this is one of those things where I go to a hotel bed and I have a harder time sleeping which it used to be the other way around but I just sleep so much better in the eight sleep bed because it's cooled down to let you get to sleep early and then warms up in the morning to help you wake up and it's become really clear that temperature is one of the most important factors when it comes to sleep and it's become real obvious to me that falling asleep faster getting better quality sleep and then being able to depend on it is something I wouldn't trade for anything it's just it took me some time to learn that plus there's an app that shows me all my info about my sleep every night and it lets me adjust the autopilot if I want if your partner sleeps at a different side on the same bed they can adjust the temperature in the app too it's great so I'll leave a link to it below and since they're a great sponsor they're actually giving you guys 200 off the Pod cover if you use code MKBHD at eightsleep.com MKBHD but anyway what's the verdict what's the what's the verdict with the new Pro iPhone of 2023. is one of those things where like I have conversations with friends and I always end up having to try to condense it all and summarize it into like one sentence and the truth is like it's the same phone as last year with USB a little bit of a faster chip a little bit of a brighter screen a little bit of thinner bezels and like I don't know better cameras that's kind of it so you have to decide how much of that is important to you are any of those things important to you honestly USB might be the most important thing about the new iPhone despite what Apple was hoping welcome to the club my friends thanks for watching catch you guys in the next one peace
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[0:00:00] you know what's funny when there's not [0:00:02] that many changes it really puts a [0:00:04] magnifying glass on the few changes that [0:00:07] there actually are [0:00:10] have you ever listened to a car reviewer [0:00:12] describe the latest generation Porsche [0:00:14] 911 like this is a car that's looked [0:00:17] more or less the same for the past 50 [0:00:19] years with slight Evolutions with each [0:00:22] new generation and literally every time [0:00:25] you watch or read a review they always [0:00:27] say every single time oh it's so refined [0:00:29] oh this is an engineering Masterpiece [0:00:32] that's been perfected over Generations [0:00:34] it's a formula that's been developed in [0:00:36] the same direction for years I actually [0:00:38] as a kid I used to actively dislike [0:00:40] Porsches because I just I knew they were [0:00:42] expensive but I thought they're all so [0:00:43] boring they all look like the same thing [0:00:45] why would you get one of those when you [0:00:47] could get a way more exciting Ferrari or [0:00:50] McLaren instead [0:00:52] but as I've gotten older I I can [0:00:56] appreciate the Porsche formula a little [0:00:59] more I don't love it or anything I [0:01:01] wouldn't say I love it but I can [0:01:03] appreciate it more [0:01:05] does that make sense I hope that makes [0:01:06] sense [0:01:07] [Music] [0:01:25] [Music] [0:01:36] this is the iPhone 15. [0:01:41] Pro [0:01:43] not [0:01:44] a lot of changes [0:01:47] so okay I think people got to get this [0:01:49] thought out of their head that you've [0:01:50] got to upgrade every year to the newest [0:01:52] phone like I realized most of us already [0:01:54] know this but for some reason people are [0:01:56] still stuck on this thing where they say [0:01:57] oh last year's phone is is barely [0:02:00] different from this year's phone it's [0:02:01] not worth upgrading but like that's not [0:02:04] new like the Zenfone 10 I just reviewed [0:02:06] is just a refinement of the Zenfone 9 [0:02:09] like the bleeding edge Rog phone has [0:02:11] looked the same for three years now the [0:02:13] pixel is finding its stride with design [0:02:14] but what we're really looking for is for [0:02:16] them to fix anything that's wrong or bad [0:02:20] and then just find ways clever ways good [0:02:22] interesting ways to just get a little [0:02:24] bit better every year so that over a [0:02:27] long time over a bunch of improvements [0:02:29] it adds up to a bigger more significant [0:02:32] change so that's what's happening here [0:02:34] with this iPhone 15 Pro I've been using [0:02:36] it for about two weeks now they've made [0:02:38] some improvements but now we're starting [0:02:40] to also see some possible problems some [0:02:43] new issues that have risen up so uh [0:02:46] let's talk about it so there's basically [0:02:48] four new features they've added here I'm [0:02:50] gonna go over some of the more [0:02:50] fundamental and existential stuff in the [0:02:54] regular iPhone 15 review so definitely [0:02:56] make sure you're subscribed to see that [0:02:57] when it comes out but for the pro it's [0:02:59] time to Deep dive on the stuff that's [0:03:00] unique to this one the uh professional [0:03:03] stuff that being the build the chip the [0:03:07] cameras and the action button so easiest [0:03:10] place to start is the way they've built [0:03:12] this phone so Apple made an update to [0:03:14] the build and the materials of the [0:03:16] iPhone this year they've softened the [0:03:18] corners a little bit it's clearly still [0:03:19] a boxy design but you know now instead [0:03:21] of a completely flat glass at the front [0:03:23] there's this gentle little curve just at [0:03:25] the very edges I think that'll maybe [0:03:27] make screen protectors slightly more [0:03:28] intricate but I think it has a nice look [0:03:30] to it and then the screen sizes are [0:03:32] exactly the same but now the bezels are [0:03:34] actually a tiny bit Slimmer all the way [0:03:35] around so technically the phone is like [0:03:37] one millimeter smaller diagonally and [0:03:40] the rails have famously switched from [0:03:42] that shiny stainless steel to a lighter [0:03:45] coated and brushed titanium the result [0:03:49] it's very slightly better I think it's [0:03:51] fun it's kind of funny I've always [0:03:52] Associated a heavy phone with like [0:03:56] expensive feeling you know like the [0:03:58] ceramic phones are like extra heavy they [0:04:00] feel like substance but I understand why [0:04:03] people want it to be lighter and so this [0:04:04] phone is actually noticeably lighter [0:04:06] than the previous Pro it's it's 10 on [0:04:08] paper but it feels like more than 10 and [0:04:10] then there's a new set of colors too so [0:04:11] I'm sticking with it this new natural [0:04:13] titanium is the best color this is the [0:04:15] first year I am not ordering a dark or [0:04:18] black iPhone they still look good don't [0:04:20] get me wrong but they get all kinds of [0:04:23] fingerprints on them like crazy and also [0:04:25] my worries about the light colored [0:04:28] scratches if you go deep enough we're [0:04:30] all confirmed by Zach j-rig everything [0:04:32] in his video cutting the thing up so [0:04:34] because I'm on team no case I'm going [0:04:36] with the all gray phone I think it looks [0:04:38] dope so I'm going with that I think [0:04:39] basically the idea is if if you have a [0:04:41] perfectly working phone there's no world [0:04:43] where you should upgrade to this one [0:04:44] just for the titanium build or just for [0:04:46] the slightly thinner bezels but you have [0:04:48] to appreciate put this up next to an [0:04:50] iPhone 11 then yeah you can see the [0:04:52] differences compounding over time just [0:04:54] like if you sat in a 992 generation 911 [0:04:57] right now after sitting in a 997 [0:04:59] generation car but the real highlight of [0:05:01] this build here let's be honest is uh [0:05:04] there's a new Port at the bottom that [0:05:05] USB type c which makes a big difference [0:05:09] to people like me who have other Gadgets [0:05:11] in their life computers headphones mouse [0:05:14] keyboard I just bring one charger it [0:05:16] works with everything I have already had [0:05:18] this rite of passage moment that [0:05:20] everyone who gets this phone is going to [0:05:22] have where you have an existing [0:05:23] lightning cable and you try to plug it [0:05:24] in and then you're like oh right new [0:05:26] cable but now I've gotten used to it but [0:05:29] the thing is I could I could have sworn [0:05:31] Apple would do more with this port like [0:05:34] okay we know that they're basically [0:05:36] forced into doing this by the EU so [0:05:37] shout out to the EU for that now I have [0:05:40] a USB iPhone but like the only pitch is [0:05:42] just hey one cable for everything [0:05:44] that's it Apple really so like with 30 [0:05:46] pin to lightning all those years ago the [0:05:49] benefit was obvious it's just so much [0:05:50] smaller of a port so that let them fit [0:05:53] more stuff in the phone plus it's [0:05:54] reversible now with this USB type c it's [0:05:57] like okay it was already small it was [0:05:59] already reversible charging speed did [0:06:01] not improve at all it's still 25 watts [0:06:03] there's no extra like desktop mode plug [0:06:06] it into a monitor and get there's no [0:06:07] decks or anything like that right it's [0:06:09] just [0:06:10] one cable for everything [0:06:12] okay fine sure welcome to the club you [0:06:15] know iPhone users can now take advantage [0:06:17] of the you in USBC I talked about the [0:06:20] handshake it does with plugging directly [0:06:22] into other phones and reverse charging [0:06:24] them at four and a half watts in the [0:06:26] unboxing video that's pretty neat you [0:06:28] can also plug in other things plug in a [0:06:30] keyboard and type with it plug in a [0:06:32] monitor it'll mirror your screen at up [0:06:34] to 4K 60. and the profile now supports [0:06:36] USB 3.0 data transfer speeds so you can [0:06:39] get that prores footage off the phone [0:06:41] noticeably faster and you can actually [0:06:44] for the first time shoot video directly [0:06:46] onto an external drive now there's some [0:06:48] talk about the cable that comes in the [0:06:50] Box remember that nice high quality [0:06:52] braided USBC cable that comes in the Box [0:06:54] but it's only USB 2.0 transfer speeds [0:06:57] it's a slow cable so if you have a pro [0:06:59] phone you need to get a faster separate [0:07:01] cable for it that seemed weird to people [0:07:02] but it's not that's very normal most [0:07:05] smartphones come with just a USBC cable [0:07:08] just to charge it's a charging cable if [0:07:10] you wanted a data cable you'd have to [0:07:12] buy a thicker more robust cable that [0:07:14] looks the same [0:07:15] but as a data cable it's kind of [0:07:18] confusing and annoying actually welcome [0:07:21] to the world of USBC my friends [0:07:24] it's good to have you but that is a good [0:07:25] segue to the main enabler the new [0:07:27] Powerhouse chip inside this phone with a [0:07:30] new name the a17 pro so the base iPhone [0:07:34] 15s got last year's a16 bionic from the [0:07:36] 14 pro and so here's this new more [0:07:39] powerful chip in the highest end phones [0:07:41] and it's not The a17 Bionic this is the [0:07:43] first one with the pro Name a17 Pro and [0:07:45] this thing goes kind of crazy on paper [0:07:47] this is their first three nanometer chip [0:07:49] actually the first three nanometer chip [0:07:51] in any phone that we'll probably see for [0:07:53] at least another year or two I ran some [0:07:55] benchmarks it's literally approaching M1 [0:07:58] chip levels of synthetic benchmark [0:08:00] scores now compared to last year it's 10 [0:08:03] to 20 percent more powerful on both the [0:08:05] CPU and the GPU which is very [0:08:07] respectable but more power is like more [0:08:10] horsepower in a car it's only really [0:08:14] useful or noticeable if it lets you do [0:08:17] more things with it I'm going to live in [0:08:18] this analogy a bit more for a minute but [0:08:20] like the last generation Porsche 911 [0:08:22] Turbo S it was already so ballistic fast [0:08:25] that you never approach that limit [0:08:28] anywhere on public streets until you get [0:08:30] to the highest end of performance on the [0:08:32] track and the highest end iPhone is the [0:08:34] same way like the pro iPhone's been [0:08:35] great at just surfing Instagram and [0:08:38] texting and doing all the normal web [0:08:41] browsing basic stuff you do on a phone [0:08:43] and so the only place you'd really [0:08:44] notice the extra performance is [0:08:47] well we got a gaming demo Apple showed [0:08:50] these wild demos on the new iPhone at [0:08:53] the keynote and uh just a disclaimer I'm [0:08:55] not much of a phone gamer so I'll defer [0:08:57] the commentary on this to dave2d you can [0:09:00] go watch his video link below but they [0:09:02] literally launched exclusive games on [0:09:04] the iPhone that are like Resident Evil [0:09:07] Village and Assassin's Creed but not on [0:09:10] Cut Down mobile versions these are [0:09:12] literally the same versions with the [0:09:13] same assets and same textures and [0:09:16] everything from the PlayStation version [0:09:18] because it literally is the PlayStation [0:09:20] version that's impressive plus you know [0:09:22] performance Headroom is never a bad [0:09:23] thing but I think also for me and for a [0:09:25] lot of other people the more impactful [0:09:27] things that you'll actually notice about [0:09:29] this new chip are in the dedicated parts [0:09:31] of it that are for specific tasks like [0:09:34] the new image signal processor lets you [0:09:36] take really really fast lag free photos [0:09:39] constantly the new neural engine [0:09:41] recognizes portrait mode subjects like [0:09:43] people's faces and dogs and cats [0:09:46] automatically and lets you go back in [0:09:48] time and set a regular photo to a [0:09:50] portrait mode photo the USB 3 controller [0:09:53] that enables faster data transfer speeds [0:09:55] is also on the a17 pro all of that is [0:09:57] coming from the new chip but what I'm [0:09:59] more concerned with at the moment is [0:10:01] battery life okay so actually it's kind [0:10:05] of two main issues that have been [0:10:07] popping up that you kind of have to try [0:10:09] to figure out are they isolated issues [0:10:11] are these real problems with the phone [0:10:13] and those are battery life and [0:10:15] overheating issues and to be honest part [0:10:17] of the reason this review took like [0:10:18] longer than normal is I've had I've been [0:10:20] really trying to dig into the battery [0:10:21] and figure out what's going on here so [0:10:23] objectively speaking these phones have [0:10:25] slightly bigger batteries than last year [0:10:27] and a new three nanometer chip so in a [0:10:30] controlled environment they should do [0:10:32] better and they do they literally last [0:10:34] longer on like simple Benchmark stuff so [0:10:37] that's good news now when I test a phone [0:10:39] like normal I pretty much I kind of go [0:10:42] by feel I always have some mix of good [0:10:44] days some average days and then some bad [0:10:47] days where I can sort of figure out [0:10:49] what's draining it what its weaknesses [0:10:50] are and I can come to a conclusion from [0:10:52] that so now here we are I get a couple [0:10:54] days in I get a couple weeks in and I've [0:10:56] had a good amount of average days I've [0:10:59] had a couple of those bad draining days [0:11:01] but I also haven't had any of those [0:11:03] amazing days where I got like nine hours [0:11:06] of screen on time I just haven't had any [0:11:08] yet and then we also started to see some [0:11:10] of those headlines about battery life [0:11:11] potentially being worse and there's also [0:11:14] some overheating issues popping up on [0:11:16] Twitter or X and some people were asking [0:11:18] if mine has had any issues so here's the [0:11:20] weird answer yes but not what I would [0:11:23] expect I was two days ago literally I [0:11:25] was just at a golf tournament it was in [0:11:27] Florida it was like a 100 degree real [0:11:29] feel something crazy like that and I'm [0:11:30] outside with my phone at Max brightness [0:11:32] with GPS going all day out in the sun [0:11:35] and it was fine no problem no [0:11:37] overheating issues but then a couple [0:11:38] hours later I'm on the airplane with my [0:11:40] phone in airplane mode and I've got just [0:11:42] like music playing on Bluetooth with [0:11:44] Spotify and like scrolling through [0:11:45] Instagram and [0:11:47] for like five minutes the phone just [0:11:49] gets really hot and just blasts through [0:11:50] like five percent battery and then it's [0:11:52] fine again afterwards and I'm like there [0:11:54] there almost seems to be no Rhyme or [0:11:55] Reason why it does this randomly once in [0:11:57] a while so my best theory is that the [0:12:00] a17 pro is just it's a more powerful [0:12:02] chip and so therefore is able to drain [0:12:04] power more quickly than before in high [0:12:06] intensity settings like gaming Etc and [0:12:09] there's also been some issues attributed [0:12:10] to iOS 17 bugs like we're already on [0:12:13] 17.0.2 I imagine there's some more [0:12:15] updates coming to both iOS and a bunch [0:12:18] of apps but by the end of this I kind of [0:12:20] feel like I'm expecting battery life to [0:12:22] basically even out to be the same as [0:12:23] last year which is a boring answer but [0:12:25] that's kind of what I expect now we can [0:12:27] talk all we want about what the word Pro [0:12:30] actually means in a smartphone but with [0:12:32] iPhones that is mostly meant cameras and [0:12:36] uh it turns out there is a lot going on [0:12:38] with these relatively similar looking [0:12:41] cameras on these new Pro phones both in [0:12:43] hardware and software so you're looking [0:12:45] at a new bigger 48 megapixel main camera [0:12:47] there's also an improved Ultra wide with [0:12:49] a closer up macro capability and a whole [0:12:52] telephoto situation and that will get to [0:12:55] in a minute but then with software there [0:12:57] is this whole new intricate image [0:12:59] processing pipeline happening so you [0:13:03] know how most smartphones a lot of them [0:13:05] today have like 48 megapixel cameras and [0:13:07] they all bend down to 12 megapixels they [0:13:10] give you 12 megapixel shots you know [0:13:11] previous iPhones did this [0:13:13] um this new one for those who might have [0:13:15] missed it is actually by default [0:13:17] spitting out 24 megapixel images [0:13:20] instead of 12. and it's only about one [0:13:23] and a half times the file size so this [0:13:24] new process which is the same actually [0:13:26] across the board for iPhone 15s and 15 [0:13:28] Pros is it's taking a 48 megapixel full [0:13:32] sensor shot for detail information and [0:13:36] also taking a full sensor 12 megapixel [0:13:39] shot which is the quad binning for light [0:13:41] information and noise and then it's [0:13:44] using the neural net to combine them and [0:13:47] do a sort of a detail transfer to get [0:13:49] you this hybrid 24 megapixel image it's [0:13:53] very complicated very clever [0:13:56] and the end result is [0:14:00] slightly better it's really right in [0:14:02] line with what I've been saying so if [0:14:04] you just generally look at photos shot [0:14:06] on this camera it's it's an iPhone photo [0:14:09] like they look pretty great they're [0:14:11] awesome with dynamic range and sharpness [0:14:13] across the board I still prefer and [0:14:15] shoot in the rich contrast profile most [0:14:17] of the time but yeah mostly the iPhone [0:14:19] is one of the best cameras at just [0:14:20] pointing and shooting in full auto just [0:14:23] getting results that look good even if [0:14:24] it doesn't look the most like real life [0:14:27] you know it's doing the classic [0:14:29] re-lighting and tone mapping and [0:14:31] everything we're used to from all this [0:14:33] smart HDR it's all here and a lot of [0:14:36] people like it and it looks good uh the [0:14:38] improved macro mode is also really good [0:14:40] and with this natural fall off with the [0:14:42] primary camera without even needing [0:14:44] portrait mode you can get some blurred [0:14:45] backgrounds it's awesome autofocus is [0:14:48] also really really fast especially [0:14:50] whenever there's a face in the scene [0:14:51] this thing loves seeing faces and the [0:14:53] benefit of the bigger sensor shows [0:14:55] itself at night too with even longer [0:14:58] handheld captures it's not magic it's [0:15:00] just physics but you know does the 24 [0:15:03] megapixel make a difference over the 12 [0:15:06] megapixel well zoomed out absolutely not [0:15:09] they look basically the same so you got [0:15:11] to zoom in and even at 50 Zoom you still [0:15:14] can't really tell it's not until you [0:15:16] zoom all the way in that you can okay [0:15:19] you can see a difference you can start [0:15:20] to notice a difference in fine detail [0:15:22] and contrast the 15 Pro is definitely [0:15:24] one you're pixel peeping more contrasty [0:15:27] and sharp when you're all the way zoomed [0:15:29] in versus last year but that's just when [0:15:32] you've zoomed all the way in and by the [0:15:34] way once you get past 2x Zoom it's back [0:15:37] to kicking out regular 12 megapixel [0:15:39] images so again this is it's like it's a [0:15:41] small small year-over-year improvement [0:15:43] with that tiny amount of like pixel [0:15:46] peeping detail but over a longer [0:15:49] distance over a bunch of generations [0:15:51] that's the type of thing that adds up [0:15:52] they even on the pro phones did a couple [0:15:54] of presets from the 1X lens there's a 24 [0:15:57] millimeter all the way zoomed out then a [0:15:59] 28 millimeter a little bit tighter and a [0:16:02] 35 millimeter that all have their own [0:16:05] dedicated image processing pipeline [0:16:07] press sets to maximize detail into these [0:16:10] basically super res Zoom focal lengths [0:16:12] that you can digitally Zoom between I [0:16:14] would not exactly call it having extra [0:16:16] lenses on the phone but you know 1.5 x [0:16:19] zoom on last year's phone versus 1.5 x [0:16:22] zoom on this year's phone slight [0:16:24] difference but there is a difference [0:16:26] honestly the most Pro things about these [0:16:28] new phones though is definitely their [0:16:31] video cameras so I'm just going to nerd [0:16:32] out about these for a second because the [0:16:34] iPhone's video capabilities I've talked [0:16:37] about this so much but they are still so [0:16:39] clearly far out in front of the rest of [0:16:41] the smartphone World it doesn't even [0:16:42] shoot 8K which is it's totally capable [0:16:44] of with the 48 megapixels I wish they [0:16:46] would let us but even just at 4K 30 in [0:16:50] full auto the detail the autofocus the [0:16:53] slight depth the dynamic range the [0:16:56] stabilization they're all world class I [0:16:58] mean if you want to just look at test [0:17:00] footage the entire electric rivian [0:17:02] delivery van review I did on the [0:17:03] autofocus channel was shot on iPhone 15 [0:17:05] Pro Audio included I'll drop the link [0:17:08] below if you want to watch that whole [0:17:09] thing also shout out to the New av1 [0:17:11] Codex support on the chip that's going [0:17:13] to play nice with YouTube but this year [0:17:15] you can also shoot log literally a pro [0:17:19] camera feature now it is annoyingly [0:17:22] buried several layers deep in the [0:17:25] separate Settings app which is really [0:17:27] not very Pro but if you find the time to [0:17:30] go switch over there and get into log [0:17:31] the iPhone will shoot with way more [0:17:34] information that classic flat log look [0:17:36] dynamic range everything and you don't [0:17:39] have to deal with whatever Apple was [0:17:40] going to do with over sharpening and [0:17:42] saturation and processing Apple has its [0:17:45] own transformation Lut to turn it into [0:17:48] SDR or HDR or you can go in and fully [0:17:50] grade it yourself to really get the most [0:17:52] out of the iPhone's video and it looks