iPhone 15 Pro: 9 Months Later...

Drew, do you use True Tone?

Got the 15 pro….camera is a big leap forward over the 12 pro. Great for nighttime pics.

11 Pro Max still going strong over here! Maybe 17 😅

I have an iPhone 13 (product red). It has 88% max capacity…. I don’t really notice any difference in the battery life after a full day. I AM NOT A POWER USER!!! I just charge when sleeping and use for random stuff throughout the day

Apple will be trying to claw those 15 pros out circulation. Bonus trade in of 100 bucks 😄

Please never stop doing the skits I love them

I think the camera bump on the regular 16 models is the cleanest look since the single camera lens. I really like it. It looks like it’s making the most of that space. If it has 120 hz, I’m definitely sold on it, but it’s seeming like Apple’s going to make us wait a bit more for that on the regular models. I have the 14 Pro. It’s nice. I rarely use the zoom. 120hz is nice and smooth, but not $200 more nice. I see 120hz as more of a nice animation feature rather than serving anything really practical.

Can’t decide if I’m gonna upgrade this year or next year. My 12 mini is running low but I’m intrigued by the slim or flip that may or may not happen next year…

I have a 15 pro max and I have never really used the optimized battery health except for the first week. I got the phone on release day and I have 91% health on 286 cycles. Yikes…

I wish Apple let Drew host one of their events as Tim Cook.

My 15 non pro get pretty hot as well. I wish it ran cooler, but it’s interesting to see that I’m in a similar spot to you. I’ve got 269 cycles (nice) and have 94% health

Been using my 15 pro heavily since launch and i do plan to keep it for a couple years. By then i think the smaller bezels, under screen faceID, and better battery will make a compelling upgrade. But for now i am loving the 15 Pro's compactness. Best feel in the hand ever.

My iPhone 15 Pro has been set to 80% since I received it on launch day. I only wirelessly charge using Apple MagSafe. It’s at 98% after 274 cycles. This is much better than my iPhone 14 Pro, which was at 92% at this time last year. Limit on charge level is great in an office as I can just leave it on the charger and not care.

I never wirelessly charge and I have the same heat problem, especially when taking video.

Why do I feel when Tim Cook is beating his husband, he just screams good morning.

About the iPhone battery health. My 14PM I had 1 year, with 260 some cycles. I always manually charged it only to 80%, and never wirelessly. My battery health after 12 months was still 100% (but soon after dropped to 99%.). My current 15PM, has 224 cycles right now, and already down to 98% with the 80% charge limit set. So yes, there could be major differences in the batteries used, but the only difference from me is I use my 15PM in nightstand mode on a Mag safe charger through the night.

Love the skits too and great content. Still rocking it with iPhone 12 battery health 44% 🥺😵

I thought you hated 5G??????

It is not the size that matters. It is about how you use it.

You should try razors magsafe cooler to manage the thermal performance

I’m at 94% (battery capacity) and I had a limit of 80% ever since launch.

With the amount of screen time I have on my phone, it can last nearly 4 days without charging with 80% charging limit, I won't have issue with smaller form factors with smaller battery size, its a shame that not what the majority wants. Phones are getting bigger with better battery life nowadays as a result.

Iphone 16s are going to have a better with a different material which is supposed to help with the overheating but we'll see if it's true

I have the iPhone 15 Pro. It is a good phone, but compared with other phones, the iPhone is one boring phone. The look is the same as the iPhone X.

Sounds like Apple every year!!!!!

the phone is hot af

lol shot I thought you had the 15

I am praying the iPhone 16 comes with a really high PWM frequency display and DC dimming. iPhones have become unusable for me since they made the switch to OLED because of the screen flicker. I only recently switched from my XR to an Android phone because Apple has left me no choice.

I'm coming from a 13 Pro Max and the weight is getting annoying after 2 years and also carrying a Fold 5. I'm planning to get the regular 16 Pro depending on how much changes they offer!

15 Pro is as close to a perfect phone as it gets... Except for the overheating part. I don't understand how that slipped under apple's radar it just overheats way too much way too often.

just record to an external ssd...that is basically an "instant" transfer. Unplug it from the phone, plug it into the computer. I would do this anyway, just because of the file sizes, etc.

All that being said, I do agree that it has become so much more useful due to having usb-c and apple log.

I had my 15 pro for about as long as you. My iPhone’s battery health is still at 100% with 216 battery cycles. I’ve never used the 80% limit on the charge, apart from the first week of owning the phone. I’ve always just used the standard OBC setting.

Not saying that the 80% limit is pointless or anything. I’m glad that feature exists for the 15 Pro. But this review and my personal experience with my 15 Pro more shows that how you use the phone plays a much bigger role in how fast battery life degrades, rather than how you charge it.

I do not use a phone. I use an iPad at home, and when I am out and about, I use a camera, GPS, and DVD Player.

I still have 5 phones, but I do not use any of them!

The “skits” are tiresome, and the main reason I don’t watch this channel.

My issues are heat like you said and the camera takes too long to take a picture when shooting 48mp. I recenly turned off the charge cap but my battery is at 99 percent capacity and I got it on launch day. I think I'll wait for the 17 slim or a ultra. Based on the leaks it looks like its going to be a boring year for the iPhone. Not sure if you have this already but iCloud storge might help with offloading stuff off the phone to free up some storge for shooting.

Upgraded to a refurbished iPhone 13 with a new battery and it literally feels and works like a brand new iPhone. Not missing out on much. No high refresh rate is a bit of a bummer but not a dealbreaker at all

I´m now in the beginning of the third year of use of my iPhone 13 Pro Max (alpine green, 256GB) and it still rocks the hell out of it. I know it's already like a three year old tech but the camera was too superb at that time, even the differences between the 15 and 13 are so minor. I bought it at the same day as the 14th series was announced because the price difference would have been 300-400€ (Germany). After I watched your video and heard about the problems of transfer speed on the 15 (which would be the only thing which bothers me+ Lightning Port) sometimes when having to share large files.

the best way seems to be to use a dedicaded ssd plugged in your phone while you record videos...

I am at 252 cycles and have 92% capacity, so your pro is doing better than my pro max.

Get a MagSafe usb c ssd or whatever it’s called it’ll stick to the back and transfer the video while recording and you can unplug it and plug it into your pc

After a year and two months with my 14 Pro the only complaint I have is the degradation of the battery. I try to manually charge it up to 80% and I also try to keep it cool, but battery health is around 91%. The battery life is still more than enough, getting me very easily through the day, leaving home at 80 and returning at 30. I just wish the health percentage wouldn’t go down that much, as it removes value from the phone. Otherwise I am very satisfied and I plan on changing the battery two years from now and keeping the phone at least 5 years. I’m soon to become a student, which means that little of my budget can be devoted towards a phone so I’m proud for demanding such an expensive phone at so young age, because it means that I’m not stuck with a low range android for the next 4 years.

Coming from a mini and had to adapt to the size 15pro, also want a smaller one, definitely NOT larger..

Yeah, my iPhone 13 mini is still holding up great. 👍

To transfer faster you can try, connecting your iPhone with a usbc to your mac and then using airdrop. I see a "wired airdrop" or smth. IDK about iPhones but, it works in my iPad with thunderbolt, so it should work wtih the iPhone 15promax.

You could plug in a small usb-c drive for recording. I believe you can record directly to an external drive.

my 15 pro usb c port died after 2 months and almost exclusively wireless charging. apple is prepping me for the portless future

I have had the 14 Pro Max since it launched. I don't have the cycle count feature, but I'm at 95% battery health. I mostly charge my phone wirelessly.
Since I have a 2 year contract, I'll be trading up to the 16 Pro Max. Too bad that a dark blue won't be available.

Currently on the 14 Pro but I’ll be getting the 16 Pro Max in September. The battery is cooked on mine (86%) and struggles to last a day if I use it heaps (hence going pro max this time), plus also usb c (since I got an M2 iPad Pro back at Christmas, bought usb c AirPods Pro 2’s back in march and have a dell xps 13 with usb c) as well as the bigger screen and better zoom lens for recording video. Keen to see the difference that the 48mp UW lens makes as I use it a lot on my current phone. I wouldn’t normally upgrade this soon but the battery in particular is becoming a problem for me. My 14 Pro won’t be going to waste though as my brother will be getting it as an upgrade from his iPhone 12

Drew, you are going to be happy. File transfer is solved. When you have the phone connected to your Mac and you send files via AirDrop it automatically sends it using the cable. This is on iOS 18.1