[Applause] Here's the iPhone 16 Pro and 16 Pro Max. They come with a new camera button, larger screens, a bigger battery, Apple intelligence, and more. Let's take a look. I've been testing Apple's new Pro iPhone models and the complete vision that Apple showed off for the iPhone 16 Pro at its Glow Time Event. Well, it's not complete right now. Features like visual intelligence, multi-track recording, and voice memos aren't here yet. And while I did get to test an early preview version of Apple intelligence on the iPhone 16 Pro, there are still many features missing, like the ChatGPT integration, Genin Mooji, and Image Playground. So, let's start by talking about the hardware. I'm here at Dandelion Chocolate in San Francisco, home to some of the world's best chocolate. And what it takes to make good chocolate is ingredients and how you put those ingredients together. And the same can be said for these Pro models. Like last year's iPhone 15 Pro, the 16 Pro is made of titanium.

and if you were to look at it from the back, it looks well identical. It's not until you turn the phone around to the front when you start noticing the differences, and the biggest difference is going to be the screen because the 16 Pro has a larger screen. But that's actually not the best thing about it. It's the border around the screen that really catches my eye because on the 15 Pro, that border or bezel looks like it was drawn with a big black Sharpie marker, and on the 16 Pro, it looks like someone's using a fine tip Sharpie to do the same. Watching videos on the screen is immersive, playing video games is fun, I can see the screen very clearly on a bright sunny day, taking photos or video. One thing I wish that was on the phone was the Samsung anti-reflective coating that we see on the Galaxy S24 Ultra. I still get a lot of reflections on this ceramic shield, and the display, whether it indoors or out, is it horrible? No, but once you see anti-reflective

coding on a phone. It's hard to not want it on every phone, and I hopefully will get that maybe on future iPhones. Perhaps the biggest change in the design is this new button. So for you button-fishing autos out there, you got another one. We got the action button last year, and this year we get what's called the camera control button. And what this allows you to do is press it to open the camera, press it again to take a photo, you can long press it to record a video, and you can kind of do this like light double press or like a light double pulse on it to bring up a little mini menu and change things like zoom. And then you can slide your finger back and forth on it to zoom in and zoom out. You can also use that to change the aperture for portrait mode and switch between photography styles. However, the headline feature for this button isn't here. It's called visual intelligence. And what that allows you to do is use the button to open up the camera, point it

around the world and get context about it, maybe learn more about a building or what the camera's pointed at, a lot like Google Lens that's coming soon, and I feel that's really what this button's aim [Music] for. In essence, the regular iPhone 16 Pro has three new cameras. It inherits the 12-megapixel 5x telephoto camera from the Pro Max. It also gets a new 48-megapixel ultra-wide camera, and the main camera's 48-megapixel sensor gets upgraded to a faster one. When you're taking a photo inches away from a subject, the iPhone will automatically switch from the main camera to a cropped version of the ultra-wide camera for better focus. The higher-resolution ultra-wide camera allows for great macro photos, super close-up ones like this of a dragon head mask. I mean, look at that fur! But also food snaps like this image of a cortado and scone. Ultra-wide photos look good and are closer in parity to the main camera's image quality, but there's still

quite a gulf between them. Check out this photo of a wine bar taken with the main camera, and here's an image of the same bar taken with the ultra-wide. The ultra-wide photo looks good, and I like the contrast, but it has less dynamic range than the main camera photo, which is also brighter. Lens flares are minimal. Notice the street light out of frame bleeding in at the top of this photo and the soft small light flare. Photos from the main camera have great image quality. Skin tones look wonderful, even in medium lighting, like this photo I took of CET, Lisa, Edo. And here's a group shot of some CET, backlit, and everyone's complexion has a nice soft glow, maybe a tad too soft, but not plasticky or processed in any way. Images have a wide dynamic range, like this one of the S neighborhood in San Francisco. And here's a night mode photo of San Francisco's City Hall taken on a foggy evening. Apple overhauled its photographic styles, and this is one of

the places where I enjoy using the camera control button the most, just swiping between styles to achieve the look I want. Now, I do have a couple of nitpicks. One of them is with the new camera controller. If I'm holding the phone one-handed to take a horizontal photo, I usually have my index finger across the side to help get a good grip on the phone, and that can accidentally interact with a camera controller. Also, in photos or when I'm reviewing a video, especially after shooting it, if I want to see it full screen, I have to tap. Now, it's not the end of the world, but especially when I'm filming a video and want to check a shot, it's just one more step I have to do. Speaking of the photos app, I am impressed with the new audio mix feature for videos, and I thought the best way to show this off was to enlist CET Jessica Fiero and her guitar. Yeah, I'm feeling good. Yeah, yes, all right, take it away, Jessica. One of the cool new features on

the iPhone 16 is when you're recording video to have better audio. You can isolate a voice on camera, you can remove wind noise, you can even make voices sound like they're in a studio recording. We got the iPhone 6 this week. There's a lot to try, there's a lot to see, Apple intelligence. You can even make your own Emoji. It's got a fancy new camera button. You even record 4K 120, so you won't miss. You already know that we're going to test this day just like we're doing right now. Yay, very cool. Audio mix is a powerful tool, and I'm genuinely impressed with the results. But now, let's talk about my favorite feature on the iPhone 16 Pro, rolling slow-mo. So, the iPhone 16 Pro has a new slow-mo feature. What's really cool about this is it shoots 4K resolution at 120 frames per second. We've never had that high quality of slow motion video on an iPhone ever. And what better way to show it off than

doing some smashing. I'm here at the Bay Area smash room, and let's slow-mo. [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] my review of the iPhone slow motion amazing. Then there's iOS 18, which is all about personalizing your iPhone to fit your needs, whether it's being able to move apps anywhere on the home screen, changing icon color, size, or even removing app names, to adding shortcuts to the control center. iOS wants you to customize your iPhone. The flashlight controls in the dynamic Island are fun and useful, and being able to use any emoji or live photo sticker as a tapback is such a delight. I did get to test some Apple intelligence features in beta, and while the is the headline feature for the phone, it's not quite fully baked. But what I did test that was working, I found useful and saw some real potential. The writing tools are clever, the professional style is a bit stilted, but as a professional writer myself, it's probably not something I would use regularly. One Apple intelligence feature

that I did use a ton was the summarized tool, especially in Safari for do Stories. The create a memory movie in the photos app is fun. Are you starting to notice this theme here? But probably the most immersive tool has to be the cleanup tool in photos that lets you remove unwanted elements from an image. In this photo of CET Lisa Edo, I removed a chair on the left side and monitor on the right. I would have a hard time telling if there had been something there aside from the leftover chair wheels on the left. And here's a photo of CET Lexis cides and Celso Bugatti, where I removed a person from the background who was talking to someone outside of the frame. The results look pretty good, but when I removed the van from the background of that same photo, it was replaced with some Salvador Dali-like bike wheel blob. Siri's glowing interface looks cool, and the assistant seems faster and more helpful when talking to Siri. I can be more natural, change what I say even mid-thought, hey.

Siri, what's the weather on Saturday? Hey Siri, can you set a timer? Uh, wait, actually, uh, do you know, are there any hotels available on Wednesday in San Francisco? Siri handles changing phone controls well, but when I asked what my phone's serial number was, it was unresponsive. Same for when I asked about how much storage I had on my phone. All that to say, this was a preview version, and the public release comes out in October. I see the horizon where Apple is headed, and I'm glad they're taking their time to get there. Powering everything is Apple's new A18 Pro chip in use. The 16 Pro has been peppy and been able to handle big workloads, from filming copious amounts of 4K slow-mo to playing video games to just everyday scrolling. In terms of battery, I've been primarily using the smaller 16 Pro, and it gets through a day just fine. On probably the heaviest day of use, where I was filming videos, having the screen on at full brightness, running Apple Intelligence, the phone started at 6:30.

a.m. with a full charge and dropped to 12% by 7:00 p.m. I topped it off for 15 minutes, which brought it back up to 37%, and it made it to 1:00 a.m. no problem. For more on the battery, check out my full written review on CET. There's so much to explore and share about the 16 Pro, but here are some thoughts to leave you with. First, keep an eye out on CET, as we will have more on the iPhone 16 series, including camera comparisons with Samsung's and Google's best phones. Look, if you're buying the iPhone 16 Pro for Apple intelligence, don't. At least not yet. If you have an iPhone 12 Pro or older, then upgrading to this makes a ton of sense. If you're on an iPhone 13 Pro and have a decent battery capacity still, I'd say save your money. And if you're on a 14 Pro or 15 Pro, there's no need to upgrade unless you really want to. The iPhone 16 Pro is

simply impressive. It will likely be even more so as software upgrades and promised features are added. But now I want to hear from you guys. What do you think of the iPhone 16 Pro? Is there a feature that stands out to you? Let me know in the comments. Lastly, if you enjoyed this video, please give it a thumbs up, and thank you for watching.

Apple iPhone 16 Pro and Pro Max Review

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Apple iPhone 16 Pro and Pro Max Review

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