iPhone 16 versus 16 Pro the pro model is the much better choice this year right well it's actually not that simple because this year Apple made the regular iPhone 16 the most compelling upgrade in years by adding new features like camera control 25 W Max saave charging and more but as for the 16 pro upgrade this year not so much I've been testing and using both of these phones for the past 2 weeks and I've put together a list of 10 real World differences that you're going to experience on a daily basis if you choose
to upgrade so let's get started first of all the regular iPhone 16 just feels so fresh this time every single day every time I pick this thing up and I look at it I have to do a double take to look at this new beautiful camera bump redesign which looks great and the new colors like ultramarine on the regular 16 and teal that we have for the 16 plus they just look so nice but the 16 Pro looks literally the same as before especially in this white titanium finish it literally looks like an iPhone 15
Pro and honestly quite similar to the 14 pro as well and that actually matters a lot in everyday use feeling like your phone is fresh which you get with the regular one now I know most people don't upgrade every year or even every 2 years but if you buy the regular 16 with the new camera bump you have a unique iPhone design that was only released this year and that really changes how it feels now the second real difference you're going to notice every single day is actually the bezels I've been getting used to the
16 Pros super slim bezels they look absolutely amazing but when I start using this iPhone 16 I just can't stop noticing how thick these puzles are the iPhone 16 Pro on the other hand is so immersive it feels so nice so premium to have bezels this thin and this is really the only way to tell this model apart from the previous 15 Pro but most people might not even notice it but to me this matters a lot and I really really love it these bezels on the regular 16 bother me so much it just feels
like it's one of those old phones that's not as premium but of course if you're upgrading from an even older iPhone your bezels are probably even thicker than this so it might not be a big deal to you moving on to real difference number three we have the extra camera on the back yes that's the telephoto which this year it got a major upgrade from 3x to 5x with Apple's unique Tetra prism lens design which accepts more light compared to the Periscope cameras and by the way it's absolutely amazing to have this first of all
you get an extra portrait mode setting 5x portraits which look absolutely beautiful you get a completely different more natural look to them and of course you also get 5x video recording where it's very St stable with stabilization and I love it because you can record videos like this one of my son playing soccer with his cousin and of course Zoom photos are much more detailed like we saw in Ben's comparison video some crazy differences there and you get a lot of background compression for those photos and those portraits where it looks really really nice compared
to having the 1X or 2x mode where you have a lot of distractions in the background and especially if you get really really close to your subject it kind of distorts the shape of the face whereas the 5x camera makes it look really natural and professional now one of Apple's biggest mistakes was ditching their iconic leather cases but thankfully our sponsor mof sent over their new lineup of mos leather cases which use premium soft touch vegan leather which doesn't fade giving you drop protection with really nice clicky buttons and a cutout for the camera control
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just embarrassing in 2024 the iPhone 16 Pros display feels so much smoother when you're swiping when you're scrolling even the text itself is easier to read while scrolling as well which is cool and the animations are super smooth whether you're swiping around or just looking at the dynamic island with all the animations it does and the new camera control animation as well looks so much smoother on the 16 Pro now moving on to real difference number five the 16 Pro actually has a bigger and better main camera sensor even though both of these are marketed
as 48 megapixels first of all you actually get a little bit better quality in low light when using the main camera with the 16 Pro you get less noise and more detail which is one of the things that we noticed in Ben's camera comparison video the 16 Pro also supports the night mode portrait mode which greatly improves the quality of portraits and it looks very nice as well with the blur thanks to it having the lar scanner which the 16 doesn't get and on top of that the lar scanner also improves the autofocus performance especially
at night and especially for video as well just look at this example of me moving my hands in front of the camera the 16 Pro does a better job with autofocus on top of that this 48 megap sensor is also new having a sensor readout that's two times faster which now allows slow motion recording at 4K 120 FPS which let me tell you it looks absolutely beautiful and it's quickly becoming one of my favorite video shooting modes and on top of that it also has a log video recording as well for the pros out there
for difference number six they both have the USBC Port but the iPhone 16 still has the super slow 480 megabits per second transfer speed that we had with the old lightning Port which is so slow that it makes sense just to use airdrop instead but on the 16 Pro it's 20 times faster at 10 gbits per second which has allowed us to record video clips when we're out doing events like CES and transferring them to our MacBook for editing super super fast and on top of that we actually started using these little Max safe ssds
where you can plug it in and record directly to the SSD itself so it doesn't fill up up your personal camera roll with a bunch of work footage and all you need to do is plug it into your Mac to start editing this is a really big deal that might not be a big deal for everybody but for us it's huge next up for difference number seven we have the performance now surprisingly this is the smallest performance difference between the regular and pro iPhones in years since the a18 and a18 pro chips both have the
same exact six core CPU layout with the same cores but the regular 16 did technically get the bigger upgrade year-over-year since the previous 15 had the a16 chip which is two generations old so you're getting a bigger boost this time but now in graphics performance the A8 pro has an extra GPU core so it's almost 20% faster which is a really big deal especially for gamers since Apple also upgraded the thermal system on both of these phones however when we tested the 16 plus compared to the 15 plus the stability didn't actually improve because the
15 Plus's a16 chip didn't really overheat anyway while on the 16 Pro Max that had a massive upgrade in terms of stability since the A7 Pro was throttling like crazy due to overheating but as far as this comparison goes the 16 Pro is so much better for gaming thanks to 120 HZ promotion that lets you enable 120 FPS mode for super smooth gaming so it's definitely the better choice now for difference number eight you have the 48 8 megapixel Ultra wide which didn't make that big of a difference when you look just at your iPhone
but when you zoom in you could definitely see that there is a lot more details we even noticed some differences like at night where the lights looked a lot better the only problem is that when you use macro mode it kind of switches off the 48 megapixel resolution and crops into 12 so you don't really see a difference in quality but if you just turn on the regular ultrawide camera without macro mode then you could actually get the 48 megapixels with hi mode but the biggest disappointment for me is that video recording didn't really improve
since it still has the same sensor size so the low light footage still has some noise which kind of sucks but overall it's a nice update now for difference number nine we have the always on display which is really nice on the 16 Pro because it makes it feel really premium having the display be always on showing you the date the time at all times as well as seeing when you have notifications which to me is a big deal because I used to always miss my wife's text messages it would just sit there for an
hour and I'd be like oh crap I missed it but now you can see it at all times when your phone is sitting there on the charger or the stand which is really cool and I've got to say the widgets really help as well it just feels a lot more premium in general compared to having the phone just completely shut off and finally for difference number 10 the 16 Pro just feels so much more premium in general thanks to the the titanium metal chassis which looks and feels great but the biggest deal is that it
makes the phone heavier and more solid while the regular 16 kind of feels cheap and too light in my opinion so overall the 16 Pro just feels much more polished and professional which I absolutely love about it so with that said those were 10 real differences that I've noticed after 2 weeks of use let me know your thoughts down below and which one you would personally choose hopefully you enjoy this video thanks for watching definitely subscribe above for more videos like this and check out Ben's camera comparison right over there we'll see you in the
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