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00:00A wide screen iPod with touch controls, a revolutionary mobile phone and a breakthrough internet communication device.
00:14Profound new intelligence capabilities that will make our platforms even smarter.
00:21So this is the iPhone 16 and this is the iPhone 16 Pro.
00:25Brand new and I've been testing them for about two weeks now.
00:28But you know what I've been doing way longer than two weeks?
00:30Working on a new app that we are finally launching.
00:34You guys have always been asking me where I get my wallpapers.
00:37Like it's frequently the number one suggested search result under my name, has been for years.
00:41So now we've put them all in one place.
00:43It's called Panels and it's finally live in the App Store both on iOS and on Android.
00:49Feels really good to be able to say that.
00:51So if you're wondering where the wallpaper on these phones in the review came from, Panels.
00:55If you're wondering where the wallpaper in the last video came from, Panels.
00:58Matter of fact, almost all of the wallpapers on the devices and in backgrounds you've seen in my videos for the past year have all come from Panels, which is pretty sick.
01:07We have a bunch of awesome artists over there that we are splitting profits with 50-50.
01:11And there's already a ton of great collections of art and much more incoming.
01:16And we have some pretty big plans for this thing.
01:18So it's starting off as a wallpaper app now.
01:21I don't want to overpromise too much, but it's going to be pretty consistently improving over time.
01:27Which is part of the reason why we're offering a subscription to support it.
01:29So go pick it up now.
01:30Poke around.
01:31Find your new favorite wallpaper.
01:33Your new favorite artist.
01:34And let me know what you think.
01:36It's kind of fun to be on the other side now.
01:38On the development side where now other people are going to review what we make, which is always exciting.
01:44Anyway, so the meta with new smartphones these days is a bunch of incremental hardware improvements.
01:51And then a whole bunch of AI features that also are being added on top, which is where the real value is.
01:57And while they're a little late to the game, Apple has hit that chapter too with the iPhone.
02:01Whether we like it or not.
02:02So the iPhone 16 is a minor, minor update over the 15.
02:07But with a ton of new AI stuff labeled Apple Intelligence.
02:12Except, that stuff's not here yet.
02:15Which is a little awkward considering basically all of the marketing for this phone is Apple Intelligence stuff.
02:20Like I've seen billboards touting that as the new thing here.
02:24Their whole event was about how it's glow time, which is a reference to the new glowing Siri animation.
02:29But none of that stuff is on this phone.
02:32None of it.
02:33So the only way to square the state of this phone right now with everything Apple has said about this phone is that it's unfinished.
02:43Like this is the most unfinished I've ever seen a new iPhone launch.
02:47So until we actually have all that Apple Intelligence stuff, we're left with a very incremental upgrade cycle.
02:54So there's not a lot actually physically new with this year's iPhone.
02:58But it's not nothing.
03:00So the iPhone 16 looks a little different from the iPhone 15.
03:03There was a moment in time not that long ago where Apple removed the headphone jack.
03:07And then there was a ton of speculation about them maybe removing all the ports and all the buttons.
03:11But instead it's gone the opposite way.
03:13And they've added the action button from last year's pros.
03:16And yet another button on the back.
03:19Aesthetically though, there are some really poppy new colors and slightly larger protruding cameras lined up on the back of the phone.
03:25And okay, I know everyone puts a case on their phone, so this is probably nothing.
03:29But I think this is the wobbliest slab phone I have ever seen.
03:33Or at least that I can remember.
03:35But either way, the rest of the general shape and flat sides and dimensions of this phone are basically the same.
03:40It's very, very simple.
03:42But either way, the rest of the general shape and flat sides and dimensions of this phone are basically the same.
03:48It's a very familiar iPhone.
03:50The pro phones are even harder to tell apart, but they do have new displays.
03:54And they're great.
03:56So they're slightly bigger, 6.3 and 6.9 inches respectively.
04:00And the bezels are, I think, actually noticeably thinner and still even all the way around.
04:05So both sized phones are just a little larger than last year and fit bigger batteries too.
04:10And we should talk about batteries.
04:11So when Apple unveiled all these new phones, they made kind of a big deal about how they all have slightly larger capacity batteries across the board.
04:18And that the new Pro Max would have the longest battery life ever in an iPhone.
04:23Which, I mean, I would hope that your newest, most expensive, most high-tech, biggest phone ever is the longest battery.
04:31But still, they didn't give any numbers to support that.
04:34So we don't actually know how much larger in milliamp hours the battery is or how much longer the battery actually lasts.
04:40All I have to go on is Apple's website's comparison tool, which only measures in video playback hours.
04:47So it has the iPhone 16 at 22 hours of video playback up from 20.
04:52And the 16 Pro Max is all the way up to 33 hours versus last year's big phones, 29.
04:58Unfortunately, this means almost nothing to me because that video playback can be optimized with like cores on a chip.
05:05Who cares?
05:06But now the phones are out and people have gotten them and torn them apart and measured them.
05:10Turns out the batteries are about 6% larger across the board and 9% larger on the Pro.
05:16And I've found battery life about the same as last year, to be honest.
05:20Like not noticeably better, not noticeably worse.
05:24I end up saying a lot of the same things about it, like it lasts me a whole day on the Pro.
05:28Heavy use, no problem.
05:30What actually did make a difference to me, though, is faster charging.
05:34A lot of people are talking about it, but all of the new iPhone 16 lineup supports up to 45 watt wired charging now.
05:40Apple never talks about fast charging.
05:42They never brag about like how fast you can go 0 to 100 or 0 to 80%.
05:47But when their phones do get slightly faster at charging, it's pretty nice.
05:51It's too bad it doesn't come with the fast charging brick in the box.
05:54But I have a fast charger.
05:55I am loving the new fast charging in bursts.
05:57And also MagSafe supports with the new puck up to 25 watt wireless charging instead of 15.
06:03On the inside, these phones have the A18 and A18 Pro chips.
06:07And again, I'd be lying if I told you I just noticed any difference right out the box.
06:12And I think basically anybody would.
06:14But yes, they will benchmark 10, 20, 30% faster depending on what you ask it to do.
06:19But the extra power is definitely more about fringe activities, high-end stuff, future-proofing.
06:24I was actually more curious, though, to find that all of the models have 8 gigs of RAM now.
06:29So the Pro phones and the non-Pro phones, which usually have different amounts,
06:33no doubt this is because the Apple Intelligence features, when they eventually ship,
06:37are going to need every last bit of it.
06:39But for now, hey, you can enjoy more RAM for all your other apps too.
06:43iOS 18 launched with these new phones too.
06:45So I made an entire separate video about iOS 18, all the new features.
06:50That's what's rolling out to everybody's older iPhones as well now too.
06:53So you can put your home screen icons wherever.
06:56You can color your home screen icons.
06:58You can change your lock screen shortcuts.
07:00Basically customize the iPhone a bit more than ever before.
07:04You could argue this makes a bigger difference to the iPhone than any of the other hardware stuff.
07:09But yeah, I'll link that full video below.
07:11But speaking of new hardware, there is one other new button.
07:22So I guess nobody at Apple is allowed to call it a button, but I'm going to call it a button.
07:26So this is the new camera control button on all of the new iPhone 16s.
07:30I've used and played with and thought a lot about this button.
07:34And it actually, it all comes down to smartphone cameras in general.
07:38My take is that smartphone cameras are like headphones EQ.
07:43Like you get a new pair of headphones out the box and you listen to them, you don't like them.
07:47Oh no, don't worry.
07:48That's just one of the ways that these headphones can sound.
07:51You can change the EQ and it'll sound like a totally different pair of headphones.
07:55And that's also true with smartphone cameras this year more than ever with the iPhone.
08:00So the default photos from the iPhone look more iPhone-y than ever.
08:04Remember how every year in the blind smartphone camera test, the iPhone loses
08:07because it kind of overly brightens all the shadows and it doesn't have as much contrast.
08:12Yeah, it's still doing that, especially in photos with people in it.
08:15But the purpose of this new button has been made very clear.
08:19And it's kind of a theme for the whole phone, which is, well, camera control.
08:24This year, Apple's kind of just giving back control of the camera to users in an interesting way.
08:31But you have to know how to use it.
08:33Like you have to know that it's a double half press with just the right weight
08:37to bring up the sliding menu of camera controls for things like exposure compensation
08:41and zoom and photographic styles and tone.
08:44And then play with it enough to realize that tone is actually maybe the most important one,
08:50where turning up tone actually removes shadows even more,
08:53and turning down tone brings real shadows back.
08:56But it doesn't seem to have a memory, so you have to remember to set it every time you open the camera app.
09:01But you also have this D-pad that lets you change even more elements of a photo,
09:05including undertones and mood and color and really mess around and dial in the look of the photos you want.
09:12And this one does have memory, so every subsequent time you open the camera,
09:16it'll remember your color hue and tone.
09:18So I found that tone at around minus 0.5 is a nice balance for most photos that I've been taking.
09:24Feels less flat, more contrasty.
09:26This is all really useful to me, and combined with the actual new cameras on the phones,
09:31this has risen the iPhone back to the top of my personal favorite rankings of smartphones to shoot with.
09:37I just like having more control over the camera.
09:41Camera control.
09:42But it is really finicky.
09:45Like the placement on the side of the phone for the button is mostly ideal for landscape,
09:50but would definitely be easier to reach if it was closer to the corner.
09:53But if we're being honest, most people take photos and videos in portrait these days,
09:57and the corner would be horrible for portrait,
09:59so they split the difference and moved it up a bit so you could reach it.
10:02But it's still not great.
10:04And the half-press sensitivity takes some time to really get used to.
10:08I'm on week 3 now, and I'm still accidentally taking pictures by tapping too hard.
10:12And the scrolling.
10:13It has momentum physics, and you can accidentally scroll too far
10:16and go past the thing you were targeting in this more continuous scrolling interface.
10:21It is just finicky enough and just hidden enough
10:24that I honestly think like 99% of people will never use this for anything other than just a camera shutter button.
10:32And I guess that's fine too.
10:34I personally did quickly get used to opening the camera quickly with the camera control button,
10:38and so I remapped my action button to something else.
10:41My Tasks app.
10:42And I've also remapped my lock screen shortcut,
10:44so it's now flashlight and my Tasks app again.
10:47And you can always just swipe over sideways from the lock screen and get to the stock camera app.
10:51So if you really want, you can map the camera control button to open any other camera app on your phone.
10:58Or just keep waiting for Apple Intelligence features that this will probably make more sense for.
11:02So yeah, long story short,
11:031. It's a button.
11:052. It's also a customization slider.
11:093. It's just going to be a button for most people.
11:13But also 4. There are new cameras on the back.
11:20So there's a bunch of new cameras across the line for both iPhone 16 and 16 Pro.
11:25Best way to summarize it.
11:26Okay, so iPhone 16 cameras are nice.
11:29Like they're pretty solid main cameras,
11:31very much in character with iPhones of the past,
11:34but not noticeably better than previous years.
11:37And then the 16 Pro cameras,
11:39with a much bigger main sensor and the higher resolution ultrawide and the 5x telephoto,
11:44are a significant step up, in my opinion.
11:47The main camera, I think, is my favorite primary sensor in any smartphone to shoot with right now.
11:52It's really good at basically everything.
11:55The ultrawide is also better,
11:57but kind of only in detail during the daytime since the 48 megapixel sensor now.
12:02But the sensor is not bigger enough to matter at night though.
12:06And now my night ultrawides all look kind of vignetted for some reason.
12:10I mean, look at that. It looks like I added a filter.
12:13But then the 5x telephoto on both the Pros is also nice now.
12:17And there is some chatter about it being worse at the 3x to 4x range
12:21because you're still having to do digital zoom.
12:23And technically that's true, but I find the 5x to be a pretty useful zoom.
12:27And it's also better resolving all the detail past 5x than before, even without AI.
12:33Shutter speeds are super fast and freeze action better than ever before.
12:37This is kind of underrated, but I love this.
12:39Like this shot came from a moving car at highway speed,
12:42and so did this one, so that's sick.
12:45And the ease at which you can get a shallow depth of field with a close-up subject
12:49is on par with any other big sensor Android flagship like S24 Ultra or Pixel 9 Pro.
12:55And no, Apple has absolutely not fixed the lens flare issue with point lights at night.
13:00So for those who are wondering, sorry.
13:02But aside from that, the video is very impressive.
13:06I'll be publishing the next autofocus video on the Silverado EV pickup truck pretty soon,
13:10so subscribe over there for that, first of all.
13:12But that's going to be shot entirely on iPhone 16 Pro, and I've been very happy with it.
13:17And Apple also added a 4K 120fps mode to the Pro phones, and it's sick.
13:22It looks great. It is really convenient to shoot and edit.
13:25The only thing you've got to be careful with is storage
13:28because it can really eat up storage.
13:31Like you can get up to near a gig a minute,
13:34and that's before you even do 4K 120 ProRes or ProRes log.
13:38But, yeah, I still love shooting it anyway.
13:40It also proves to me that they have the processing power
13:44and the sensor readout speed to do 8K30.
13:48They just choose not to.
13:51And I wonder why sometimes.
13:53This is also the first year they're using the term fusion camera,
13:56and you kind of have to dig in a little bit to try to figure out what that means.
14:00Turns out it's basically the same thing as last year's punch-in optical quality zoom,
14:07but with a slightly updated image processing pipeline.
14:10Cool.
14:11But also that zoom is not technically one-to-one optical quality
14:15because the photo sites are smaller in that smaller crop.
14:18Nevertheless, iPhone 16 camera, good.
14:22iPhone 16 Pro camera, great.
14:26There is something truly weird about this product being launched
14:31at an Apple event called Glowtime
14:34and not launching with the thing that glows, the new Siri.
14:38There's something weird about people happily going out to a Fifth Avenue Apple store this week,
14:42which is literally glowing with rainbows now,
14:44and walking out with a brand new phone that doesn't have that.
14:47Like there's something just off about billboards
14:50and all highlighting Apple intelligence.
14:52And Tim Cook saying this was the first phone built from the ground up for Apple intelligence.
14:57The next generation of iPhone has been designed for Apple intelligence from the ground up.
15:02Yet this phone does not have Apple intelligence at all.
15:07It's all coming soon and coming later this year
15:11and into next year of any kind.
15:13It's all coming soon and coming later this year and into next year of any kind.
15:16It's all coming soon and coming later this year and into next year eventually with software updates.
15:21But if I've said it once, I've said it a million times,
15:23never buy a product based on the promise of future software updates.
15:27Buy it for what it is right now when you buy it.
15:30That's been the golden rule for forever.
15:33But yet here we are.
15:36Times have changed.
15:38This has been a common trend alongside AI.
15:41And you think Apple might be immune to it, but they're not.
15:43They're a public company.
15:44And just like lots of other public companies,
15:46they've sort of caved to this pressure that they have to appear like an AI first,
15:52AI forward company, like a leader in AI.
15:55So they have presented a ton of AI stuff that they're working on.
16:00And they've done the song and dance of like, hey, we are AI first.
16:03And the phone's built from the ground up for AI.
16:05It's our whole theme this year.
16:07But the fact of the matter is, it's not good yet.
16:10It's not.
16:11It's actually not even finished.
16:12If it was, they'd be shipping it.
16:13But it's in beta and they're still working on it.
16:16And they'd rather keep working on it than ship it to you now.
16:21So how do we square this?
16:24Do we even square this?
16:27You remember the Rabbit R1?
16:29The Rabbit was a little AI in a box.
16:32Pretty classic 2024 product.
16:34When I reviewed that Rabbit, it was basically useless.
16:38Like literally almost none of the functionality was working as it shipped.
16:42And so I said so in the review.
16:44Same with the Humane AI Pen.
16:46Really, really, really bad product.
16:49Missing almost all of its functionality.
16:51Worst product I'd ever reviewed for now.
16:54Both of those products have started to get some updates since I reviewed them.
16:59But again, I can only review what's in front of me.
17:01Like I got that thing in the mail, just like real customers are going to get that thing in the mail.
17:06And now it feels like the new iPhone is suddenly in the same boat.
17:10So I guess the difference between the Rabbit and the Humane Pen and the iPhone is,
17:15well, one, the iPhone is a fine standalone product even without the promised stuff.
17:21And it's buyable and usable where the other two, not so much.
17:24But two, is that Apple, at least now, has some element of a track record
17:31of developing and shipping things that they promised where Humane and Rabbit didn't.
17:39So you could argue there's some dimension of trust to this
17:42and that Apple is really leaning heavily on how much you trust them.
17:46Because to be honest, to me, it's really bold to be shipping a product like this
17:50without any of these big things that you're promising.
17:53Like they must really believe in themselves to eventually ship this stuff so that people aren't mad.
17:59But yeah, that's the AI world we live in, I guess,
18:03is that everyone has this pressure to feel like a leader in AI and be shipping all these new features and stuff.
18:09But a lot of it, not that good yet, not that done yet.
18:13So I'm planning an entire separate review of Apple Intelligence as a whole when it comes out.
18:17I've been using some of the features in 18.1 beta on my 15 Pro.
18:22But even this is really limited, like it's basically just writing tools and the new Siri animation.
18:27But they have a long way to go.
18:29I'll say get subscribed to see the Apple Intelligence review when it drops, when it's done,
18:34because clearly it's a big part of this phone.
18:44So, you made it this far into the video, or you skipped ahead to this chapter
18:48because you just really wanted an answer on if you should buy these phones or not.
18:51Fine either way.
18:53So, okay, you should buy the iPhone 16.
18:57If you're on an iPhone 13 or older, and that phone is on its last legs
19:04and you're really looking for an upgrade to a new iPhone, fine.
19:08Anything newer in it probably won't feel like it's worth an upgrade.
19:11And you should buy the iPhone 16 Pro if you really want a better phone in cameras or displays.
19:20That's really the two places where the Pro shines over the regular phone.
19:23The cheap iPhone really has never looked better, honestly.
19:26It has the camera control. It matches the RAM of the more expensive Pros.
19:30It has the more interesting colors if you're into that.
19:33It has the action button now too.
19:35And it has the same brightness of a display.
19:37And it also goes all the way down to one nit, just like the Pro screen.
19:40Now, I personally cannot use a 60 Hertz $800 phone in 2024.
19:46I just can't do it.
19:48There are lots of people just like me who will immediately have to upgrade to the Pro just for that.
19:52But there are also tons of people who don't even notice or care about ProMotion.
19:59Which, I know, it's kind of hard to wrap my head around too.
20:02But for those people, yeah, the base phone is going to be great.
20:06But then as someone who shoots a lot of photos and videos and social media stuff,
20:09the autofocus channel, between all that,
20:11the cameras are better enough on the Pros for that to be worth the upgrade for me.
20:17But yeah, I still say, buy it for what it is today, not for what it could be tomorrow.
20:22And even without any of the AI stuff maybe ever coming to these phones,
20:27they're still rock solid, very, very incremental upgrades.
20:32Thanks for watching.
20:34Catch you guys in the next one.
20:36Peace.