Apple has widened the gap a bit between this year's iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max. Check out what's changed.
This story is part of our complete Apple event coverage This year’s iPhone 15 lineup has arrived with some exciting changes for Apple’s flagship Pro models. Featuring a new high-grade titanium frame, a new A17 Pro chip that’s more powerful than ever, and some camera improvements that go beyond the usual year-over-year updates, it’s an interesting year for the iPhone 15 Pro models.
However, there’s more to the use of titanium than just looks. The switch has allowed the iPhone 15 Pro models to shed some weight; both models drop 19 grams over their respective predecessors. In practical terms, that makes the iPhone 15 Pro Max closer in weight to last year’s iPhone 14 Pro. Once again, the obvious difference between the two iPhone 15 Pro models is the size, but Apple has made sure that the resolution has been proportionally adjusted for the larger screen so that both iPhones offer the same crispness and clarity. That means a 2,556 x 1,179-pixel screen for the 6.1-inch iPhone 15 Pro and 2,796 x 1,290 pixels for the 6.7-inch display on the iPhone 15 Pro Max. That works out to 460 pixels per inch for both.
For example, the A17 Pro now features hardware-accelerated ray tracing and Metal effect upscaling that brings in the Neural Engine to produce the highest-quality graphics you’ve ever seen on a smartphone. The changes are significant enough that mainstream developers will soon bring actual console games to the iPhone 15 Pro, including Resident Evil Village, Tom Clancy’s The Division Resurgence, and Ubisoft’s Assassin’s Creed Mirage.
Even though the iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max offer the same performance and charging speeds, the larger battery in the iPhone 15 Pro Max gives it a solid win.iPhone 15 Pro vs. iPhone 15 Pro Max: cameras Where this year’s iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max diverge the most is in the camera systems, as Apple has once again bolstered the optical zoom only on its larger model, giving the iPhone 15 Pro Max more range than the iPhone 15 Pro.
As it is, Apple has rearranged the camera layout on the iPhone 15 Pro Max to make room for the new camera system. The telephoto lens, which has been in the top corner since the three-camera design was introduced in 2019, now moves to the right-center position, below the flash. For consistency, Apple has done the same with the iPhone 15 Pro.
This puts both iPhone 15 Pro models on equal footing from a software perspective, and the iOS 17 user experience on Apple’s newest iPhone models should be virtually identical to what other recent models are getting, except for obvious hardware-dependent features like the 5x zoom and the new Action button.
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