Apple iPhone 16 Pro

Anecdotically, my current OPPO find x9 mops the floor with my previous iphone 16 pro in photography in practice. The 1-1 with apple only seems to be there for Google and Samsung, but the Chinese flagships are a step up. For video I think the iphone hasn't been dethroned yet.

Seems backwards to me. I even bought a 16 Pro because I wanted a nicer phone, and I returned it because I liked it less than the Mini. If there was a new Mini I would have purchased and kept it.

This is a known issue and I am actively trying to find why this is happening. So far it's pretty good on Brave/Chrome. Tested on Macbook Pro M1 8gb RAM and Macbook Air M1 8gb RAM. Mostly likely because of M series of chips. All tests were done on Brave/Chrome. Does not work on iPhone 11 Pro Max and iPhone 16 Pro. Mostly likely because of A series of chips. Tests were done on Safari and Chrome and it crashes on both.

correct, but honestly it's much more interesting to have the new Siri on my phone than my mac, at least in my case. Very disappointing, having bought an Iphone 16 pro mainly for the new AI features which almost 2 years later are still not there to be used.

This is sad. A while back I updated my SE, and considered either a second-hand Mini (since they weren't being made) or a 16. I got the 16 Pro. Plus side: great camera, love the zoom. Minus side: worst iPhone I've ever owned. Heavy. Big. New flashy camera touch sensitive button is really annoying (you can slide along it by accident and it changes things, it's not just a button; also, sometimes you click it once to bring up the camera, sometimes twice, it's not clear when or why.) I miss the smaller, physical button SEs. I desperately miss compact, usable hardware.

> People who do get warranty replacements report receiving bags that are worse than the one they sent in. Thinner fabric. Cheaper hardware. You mailed back a 2016 JanSport and got a 2025 JanSport, and those are fundamentally different products. This rhymes. Recently, I took my iPhone 16 Pro in to swap out the screen (there was an ever growing dead spot, and they handled it free of charge). Unfortunately, the screen they replaced it with is much more fragile – hairline fractures within days. I know the replacement screen is of lesser structural quality, but I can't prove it. I've had iPhones since the day they debuted in 2007(?), and this moment connected the dots across years of screen replacements. The original is always much more durable. But again, sadly I can't prove it.

My iPhone 16 Pro's screen got scratched/cracked within weeks of me getting it when none of my other iPhones (5 of them from the 3GS until the 13 mini) ever had any screen issues. It's hard to not feel like the durability is decreasing.

Nice! Tried on iPhone 16 pro with 30 TPS from Gemma-4-E2B-it model. Although the phone got considerably hot while inferencing. It’s quite an impressive performance and cannot wait to try it myself in one of my personal apps.

This is an iphone 16pro chip. That's the phone I have and don't love it. I am not sure if this is a useful config.

It will be hard, but I’m transitioning out of Apple ecosystem regardless of whether they improve. Just like Windows 11, I get ads whether I want them or not - just got a push notification for a new financial product (!!!) despite going out of my way to opt out. iOS 26 made my 16 Pro, practically brand new, feel slow. I upgraded because my 13 mini was slow, and I chose Apple in the first place because they had some of the best performing phones (especially cpu/gpu; they always had less ram but before llm it didn’t matter). The keyboard is horrible, but I don’t trust Google or Microsoft keyboards either; I think my next phone will be graphene; just waiting to see who their new hardware partner is. I loved Apple TV because it was fast; under 26 it is slow. I chose Mac for best in class hardware. That is unfortunately unchanged; really hoping snapdragon X 2 elite has good Linux support. My Apple Watch, despite doing nothing new it didn’t used to do, has also become slow and annoying, and its battery was never as good as it should have been. When I jump to Android I think garmin is probably the best choice, but maybe there are good wearables now. Unfortunately Android doesn’t have its act together re:built in health data database. Replacing Athlytic and keeping my history will be one of the biggest challenges in the transition. Competitors unfortunately still have huge blind spots even if some of the core experiences are better.

Re-indexing does occur after an update, but iOS 26 consumes more battery life than iOS 18 anyways. Just in one example video ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0eCUkYJ8A98 ) they see the phone get hotter and the battery drops 13x faster during non-static sequences like checking notifications, etc. Just anecdotally, my iPhone 16 Pro seems to last half as long. Before iOS 16, I got from 80% to 20% without a problem. Now, I charge to 100% and I still need to recharge throughout the day. Apple simply fucked up our phones.

iPhone 16 Pro and Apple TV and Apple Watch have all become noticeably slower/laggier with choppy animation under 26. Totally unacceptable.

I got myself an iPhone 16 Pro because of the promised AI features. I had a vision in my mind of what it ought be like: While driving past a restaurant, I wanted to know if they were open for lunch and if they had gluten-free items on their menu. I asked the "new" Siri to check this for me while driving, so I gave it a shot. "I did some web searches for you but I can't read it out to you while driving." Then what on earth is its purpose if not that !? THAT! That is what it's for! It's meant to be a voice assistant, not a laptop with a web browser! I checked while stopped, and it literally just googled "restaurant gluten free menu" and... that's it. Nothing specific about my location. That's nuts. Think about what data and access the phone has: 1. It knows I'm driving -- it is literally plugged into the car's Apple CarPlay port. 2. It knows where I am because it is doing the navigating . 3. It can look at the map and see the restaurant and access its metadata such as its online menu. 4. Any modern LLM can read the text of the web page and summarize it given a prompt like "does this have GF items?" 5. Text-to-voice has been a thing for a decade now. How hard can this be? Siri seems to have 10x more developer effort sunk into refusing to do the things it can already do instead of... I don't know... just doing the thing .

Something on this website made my iPhone (16 pro) immediately begin warming up, become hot to the touch, and invoke screen-dimming throttling. I verified by exiting it and reentering, during which the pattern abated and then recurred. The snow? Something else?

Ever since switching to iOS 26, on an iPhone 16 Pro that is now only ~14 months old: - The iPhone lockscreen does not consistently swipe away after unlocking. It just keeps stuck. - The iphone no longer automatically connects to my Apple TV. The remote takes a second to load, and this happens each time I navigate back to the TV remote app. - Alarms and timers do not work. I have had to set up a separate physical alarm. - Podcasts keep crashing, and resetting to 1x speed. - Internet connection completely drops, and only recovers once I completely reboot my phone. - My phone starts to overheat with no discernible cause. I sometimes wake up with my phone so hot that it's almost painful. - Once, while charging, my phone dropped to 16% battery from 85%. According to the Battery Usage chart, the Weather app (which I had not opened) used 83% of the battery in the background. This is on top of the completely ruined, battery-killing interface. These are all problems that cropped up since iOS 26. I had a few complaints about rough edges or missing features in iOS, but this is honestly mind boggling. Software engineering is very hard, but Apple seemed to have had a decent system. Recently, a mandatory iOS 26.2 update hit and I had numerous messages from non-techie friends about it (who I believe had it installed over iOS 18). There must be deep systemic problems at Apple that allowed them to destroy so much so quickly. I just hope it's not decades before we can read about the 2020s in a…

I moved from 13 mini this year to 16 Pro, the keyboard is just as bad either way, not a noticeable difference. Maybe slightly worse on the 16 because the ergonomics are so bad.

It's actually crazy how they've seemingly managed to do absolutely nothing with Siri in a decade and a half. I legitimately have no idea what features it has had added, but I still try basic things and am shocked at how useless it is. I was excited when I recently got an iPhone 16 Pro - it comes with Apple Intelligence! Surely this is how Siri leaps into the future and starts doing things like translating for me, or responding with a photo and some basic facts when I ask who Ariana Greenblatt is, or letting me convert from Krore to USD (it gives results for rupees every time it seems?) or... Anyways, I asked it something basic, and Siri said it would have to use Apple Intelligence. Not like, prompting me if I want to use it, just saying it's needed, then turning off. I'm pretty confused as to what Apple Intelligence is at this point, since I assumed it would be Siri. "Hey Apple Intelligence" doesn't do anything, so I ask ChatGPT. It informs me that AI is, in fact, part of Siri. I... do not know why it gave me that response. Back to timers and alarms. Edit - this is your daily reminder that you can NO LONGER SHUT OFF IPHONES BY HOLDING DOWN THE POWER BUTTON.

The software bloat is starting to outpace the hardware folks' best efforts. iOS 27 runs like ass on my year-old iPhone 16 Pro.

TC is a runaway apple robot programmed to make money at any "expense." With his bankrolling of China's electronics infrastructure, he epitomizes the worst of what capitalism can do. Here's just another sick example. I just sold my iPhone 16 pro to get a nothing phone, because anything is better than apple.

iPhone 16 Pro. Good hardware but mediocre software. Coming from a cheap $180 Android phone there is a lot of culture shock.

With Three UK I used gathered evidence over the course of 4 months to wiggle myself out of a £46/month 28-month 5G contract (had to pay £200 remaining on my iPhone 16 Pro) when I demonstrated that my phone was basically useless whenever in the postcode are where I live, even if I always had 1 bar 5G signal. Not even phone calls would go through, let alone calls on Whatsapp et al, or loading websites using something heavier than just text. Have raised a _formal_ complaint (they must report it to Ofcom), and after that it was just a matter of ensuring I lost enough phone calls to demonstrate how many ended up in my answering machine. The fact that Wifi calling is also super buggy and almost never work, played also a big role. My problem is, all other mobile providers in my area are even worse, showing LTE or 4G. So I just need to wait for them to strengthen signal, or move!