r/iPhone16Pro

Before getting the 16 pro in the black titanium color I liked very much I daily drove the iPhone 15 pro . 15 pro was a nice iPhone and don’t think many people would expect the 16 pro to be much better . Haters had started saying it’s the same phone as the last one with one extra button etc. The difference in bezels between the 15 pro and the 16 pro was the dealbreaker that made me go for the 16 pro as they made the phone look so much better . I don’t expect to be blown away by the 16 pro but I actually did . Batterylife was miles better while the new size was way more comfortable than before. Camera was improved too and the 4k 120 video was a nice addition . The 4 microphone array was really nice too and the audio mix feature great . It felt like the perfect iPhone . Awesome design and overall performance in every day tasks . When I upgraded to the 17 pro I was interested about how it would be . I really liked the fact that it now was approached not as a piece of jewelry but as a tool destined to improve our every day life and wondered how could Apple make the experience even better than the one of the 16 pro , at the beginning the new design was the obvious difference that didn’t matter that much however when living with the 17 pro I saw that the improvements were very real and that it was really a step up over a great phone . Every aspect of it was better than its predecessor in various ways . The battery charges way faster whilst it last longer the phone is smoother , gaming performance is better , the new design is more comfortable the zoom is better the dual capture feature is useful the front camera way better than before and more versatile. The screen is way more durable something that I wouldn’t expect . On the 17 pro I don’t even need a screen protector and don’t have even a tiny scratch after months without a screen protector. The screen is brighter the phone is cooler . For the base 16 pro users the storage has been doubled as well in the base version too

Don’t get me wrong 16 pro is still great but if you use your phone as pros or depend on it the 17 pro is an improvement you will feel and experience

I've been a dedicated camera person for years. Mirrorless for travel, compact for day-to-day, phone for snapshots when nothing else was available. The phone was always a fallback, not a first choice

The 16 Pro changed that on a trip last month - not because of megapixels or sensors but because of two specific capabilities that came together:

The half-press AF/AE lock on Camera Control. It took until January for this to arrive via iOS 18.3, and the feature remains buried in settings and has to be toggled on - but once enabled, you tap a subject, hold halfway, and it locks exposure and focus for as long as you keep your finger down, like a real camera. This single feature changed how I shoot. I'm composing and locking before I frame, which is how I shoot on my mirrorless. The phone now responds the same way.

The ProRAW speed improvement. Burst ProRAW 48MP frame rate on the 16 Pro is roughly twice that of the 15 Pro, which means I'm not waiting after shots the way I was. The workflow now feels responsive rather than like I'm shooting through molasses

Combined: I have something that fits in a pocket, shoots RAW at useful speeds, and has manual focus/exposure control via physical hardware. The gap to a dedicated camera is smaller than it's ever been for my actual shooting style

What's the specific capability that made the 16 Pro camera feel genuinely different from your previous phone rather than incrementally better?

My iphone 16 pro pictures look mostly blurry, especially if i ever try a different camera mode, like vibrant, they get very very blurry and i feel so frustrated

Anything you guys know that can be fixed? Pls help.

I have been facing connectivity issues with my iphone specifically 16 pro max . when i am on 5ghz wifi network (150 mbps) i get around 3-4 mbps and when i am on 2.4ghz on same wifi i get 70 mbps .This is not the case with other devices as my laptop pc or even my iphone 11 they all get around 130-150 Mbps but if i test my iphone 16 pro max it mostly never goes beyond 4 mbps . in rare case scenario for a while it goes to 150 mbps then the behaviour come backs to 4 mbps anyone know how to fix this?

Im using my 16pro daily as a hotspot for laptop and tablet but especially when i play games on my laptop after some time, usually 30-60min the connection seems to break and i have to set flightmode on and off. I get the same issue when i use 13pro but dont have this issue when i use my old oneplus 8t or s24 with the same network provider, which let me think its an iphone thing or setting which i might not know yet, do you guys have any helping information for this?

Also when i use the iPhone without hotspot the connection wont break ever, it feels like some setting is stopping excessive hotspot use

I google already and found alot stuff about network issues and iPhones and tried resetting network settings and whatnot but nothing really did the fix and its kinda getting frustrating