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Smaller notch? Touch ID? Better battery life? Faster charging? Larger default storage? Nope, let's skip all that and spend most of the event talking about video

• oldstrangers 2y ago
  Judging by the success of TikTok, yes, lots of consumers will love new video features.
• thiht 2y ago
  > Better battery life That’s the only thing from your list that people actually care about and they did improve battery life, there was a whole segment about it. The rest? No one cares. Do you even use an iPhone? You sound like me before I got an iPhone: - I thought the notch would be annoying, I don’t even notice it anymore, it’s never been an issue in actual use - I was convinced TouchID was better than FaceID but I completely changed my mind. FaceID is just more reliable and convenient, especially if you have sweaty palms - Faster charging? I mean, why not, it’s always nice if it can be faster, but I’ve found fast charging already surprisingly fast whenever I’ve needed to quickly get some % before going out - Larger default storage? Same, it’s a nice plus, but if you want or need more storage, pay for more? You have the option
  • ProfessorLayton 2y ago
    I disagree, there's lots to improve on that "regular users" would notice. I went from an 11 (non pro) to a 15PM, and there's still a few major gripes I'd like to see fixed that haven't been addressed in the 16, but would benefit regular users if improved: - I wish my phone was easier to unlock when outside in the bright sun and wearing glasses. I often have to take them off or try again, or put in a passcode. - I'd like the screen to not dim after a few minutes outside in the sun. - I wish my phone charged faster, especially for moments where I'm like "Oh crap, my uber will be here in 5m and I forgot to charge my phone" - I wish my safari tabs didn't attempt to reload at the most inopportune times (or ever like my Macbook). This is a very real scenario I run into often when in the subway with no cell/wifi, and is extremely annoying. Better than my 11, but not fixed by any means. - I wish my OLED screen didn't have visible PWM at low brightness, and strained my eyes. Not everyone is sensitive to this, but some are, and I didn't have this issue with my 11. These are all regular user stories.
    • Bluecobra 2y ago
      > I wish my OLED screen didn't have visible PWM at low brightness, and strained my eyes. Not everyone is sensitive to this, but some are, and I didn't have this issue with my 11. Have you tried playing with Reduce White Point in accessibility options? This plus the Dark Reader plugin for Safari it's a good option for late night reading.
    • crazygringo 2y ago
      > I wish my safari tabs didn't attempt to reload at the most inopportune times This is my absolute #1 wish for my phone. I want to load up 30 news tabs before I hop on the subway and just have them all stay loaded, instead of the most recent 4 staying loaded, while any others refresh (and fail) if I switch back to them. I absolutely want all of my tabs to have the page state cached in storage whenever I leave them and they're done loading. With the scroll position too, as I'll often be interrupted halfway through reading a long story. I don't want them to be stored ephemerally in memory. Surely it can't be so impossible to "pickle" the state of the page and then unpickle? I can totally accept it not surviving every app upgrade too. Just let me load up stories on the subway platform and read them all on my underground commute.
      • callalex 2y ago
        The “reading list” feature in safari saves pages for offline viewing.
      • paperplatter 2y ago
        Should be theoretically possible via swap. Like, my MacBook can have a thousand browser tabs open without reloading any of them, and I'm sure it doesn't all sit in physical RAM. Is your phone low on storage, or are iPhones just less swappy?
        • crazygringo 2y ago
          I don't think iPhones swap at all. They just purge the oldest-used app(s) when they need more memory. Unlike on a Mac, applications don't stay open in the background. With some exceptions for specific authorized background processes.
  • paperplatter 2y ago
    The notch is ok, but FaceID is a downgrade, and so is not having a home button or a headphone jack.
    • KerrAvon 2y ago
      Have you tried a phone with Face ID? I can't say that I've ever missed the home button.
      • paperplatter 2y ago
        Yeah, on an iPhone 12. Once you enable FaceID, the option to require passcode only after X minutes is removed, leaving only "immediately," which makes it a lot more important for FaceID to work reliably. It fails more often than TouchID does, and I can't unlock it without looking at it. Also the new swipe gestures are harder than using the home button; it's like they copied Android. I gave up and went back to my 6S.
  • nox101 2y ago
    > - I thought the notch would be annoying, I don’t even notice it anymore, it’s never been an issue in actual use I have several apps the notch covers. Arguably that's the app's fault for not upgrading ? Or is it Apple's? Maybe Apple should let apps opt into the notch. For apps that don't opt in they'd get a blank bar at the top. That would at least not have broken so many apps. > - I was convinced TouchID was better than FaceID but I completely changed my mind. FaceID is just more reliable and convenient, especially if you have sweaty palms Sucks with face masks.
    • KerrAvon 2y ago
      Face ID works fine with face masks. Check that you have the feature enabled. https://support.apple.com/en-us/102452 https://support.apple.com/en-us/102452
      • nox101 2y ago
        Face ID does not work fine with face masks. Tons of complaints. Tons of people for which it doesn't work. If it works for you consider yourself lucky.
    • TexanFeller 2y ago
      No longer relevant. Hardly anyone but severely immune compromised people and untreated OCD sufferers(I used to be an extreme case) wear masks now.
      • sam29681749 2y ago
        Masks are commonplace in some countries such as Japan.
    • sib 2y ago
      Sure, but no more than TouchID sucks with gloves or wet fingers...
  • rurp 2y ago
    Not everyone has the same set of use cases that you do. Device storage for example is a big deal for anyone who spends significant time outside of wifi. Buying more cloud storage doesn't help someone without an internet connection. Many people prefer TouchID for various reasons and I'm not sure why we wouldn't believe them just because you happen to like FaceID.
  • mysteria 2y ago
    > I was convinced TouchID was better than FaceID but I completely changed my mind. FaceID is just more reliable and convenient, especially if you have sweaty palms Actually for me it's the opposite, and I see much more failures to unlock with FaceID compared to TouchID. There are many times where I had to hold the phone out in front of me like I'm taking a selfie and look directly at it for the system to work, whereas TouchID works in all kinds of weird positions as long as I'm able to place my finger on the sensor.
    • yoyoyo1122 2y ago
      Same, I have more failures with FaceID vs TouchID but it's like a 95% vs 99.9% success rate. I don't have sweaty palms though.
  • grujicd 2y ago
    FaceID is not really compatible with Always On Displays. When you glance at a screen it's because you want to take a look at the clock or see if there are any notifications. I don't want my glance to unlock it! At least that's my experience with Galaxy phones and how I use AOD.
    • KerrAvon 2y ago
      iPhones with FaceID and AOD work fine. Your glance doesn't unlock it unless/until you want it to.
    • musictubes 2y ago
      Looking at an iPhone unlocks it. You can then read the notifications. You will see that there are notifications but the content is hidden while the phone is locked. It does not go to the Home Screen until you swipe up from the bottom.
• wlesieutre 2y ago
  5x zoom and the new camera button on the Pro sound great to me, will probably upgrade from my 12 mini for that I don’t shoot much video but I do take photos
  • petesergeant 2y ago
    Is that a big upgrade on just using the volume down button for photos?
    • wlesieutre 2y ago
      You can swipe on it to adjust zoom level instead of having to pinch on the screen. Having owned SLRs I think I’ll appreciate the more camera-like affordances. It’s also supposed to do the half-press to lock focus and exposure, which has been a common feature on cameras for ages. But I think I read this is a “coming later” feature. There was something else about double tapping to switch modes though I don’t know how that works exactly.
  • tbolt 2y ago
    12 mini is so great but I’m going to have to try moving to the pro.
• saurik 2y ago
  Do people have to "upgrade" constantly? Shouldn't the iPhone get at least a little bit better every year, even if no one "upgrades"? I often use my devices for years until they break in some way, and then I get a new one... is it really so wrong that the 2024 model is only better in ways you don't care about from the 2023 model?
  • pazimzadeh 2y ago
    you don't have to upgrade, but it used to be tempting
    • TillE 2y ago
      Smartphone development was super fast from the iPhone 2G to the iPhone XS, give or take. Now the technology has basically caught up to the vision. It's just a portable computer, and people don't buy new computers every year or two.
      • pazimzadeh 2y ago
        I don't think anything after the 6S or 7 was that impressive. The X's form factor was cool, that's about it. I was annoyed that they took out the force sensor/3D touch. It's not just the phone though, you would think by now they would release a smaller watch with round face. In the iPod era we got a new form factor almost every year. You didn't have to buy it, but you had the choice. Now if I want a round watch I have to buy from google, which doesn't work with my iPhone?
  • nox101 2y ago
    Apple often gates features on model number. They'll make up some BS about needing the power of the newer model to do X but they'll be plenty of demos of doing X on various platforms with less power. Not saying I need those new features. Only that Apple's incentives are to try to get you to buy the new phone so they are incentivised to gate several software only features to try to get you to upgrade.
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• brookst 2y ago
  Many families hand devices down. It would be odd for a bachelor to buy every new device every year, but if older devices end up with kids or grandpa it makes perfect sense for the family to buy a new device every year.
  • mig39 2y ago
    Yes, my family practices trickle-down iPhoneconomics. I get the new one every year, because it's a tax thing. I give my old one to my wife, and whichever kid has the oldest phone gets hers.
    • lotsofpulp 2y ago
      What tax thing results it being cheaper for you to buy a new iPhone rather than not buy a new iPhone?
      • Mathnerd314 2y ago
        Probably as a business expense it can be deducted from income for the business + no increase in personal income for him. It's not free but is something like a 50% savings vs. paying himself and buying it personally.
        • mercutio2 2y ago
          You really can’t hand down your business expensed iPhone to a family member. That’s liable to land you in hot water in an audit.
          • tedunangst 2y ago
            Gotta write off the wife, too.
          • ackfoobar 2y ago
            I guess he buys it from his business at a (heavily) depreciated price?
• steve_adams_86 2y ago
  I got the 15 pro because of an offer through my wife's work (it made it ridiculously cheap and seemed like the right opportunity to replace my 3 year old SE), and worried I'd have a bit of FOMO with the 16 a month away from release. I really don't care. The 15 pro is so much phone, I can't imagine it lasting less than my SE. And frankly I only upgraded due to the limited time opportunity and knowing my son could use my SE due to his 7 being a crumpled lump of broken glass and gnarled aluminum. It's like he skate boards to school on it. RIP little SE, I guess. I'd like the slightly nicer camera, but the ones on the 15 pro are so good it seems absurd to complain. I actually used this thing for product photos on my store's website, and they turned out remarkably well. It's not PRO level (I'll reproduce all of them with my camera later) but my god, cameras in phones have come a long, long way. We're at a point where I'd be very surprised if iPhone 17 introduces anything interesting.
  • nox101 2y ago
    I got the 15 mostly for USB-C. I still have cable hell because my AirPods are lightning so sometimes I need USB-C -> lightning and sometimes I need USB-A -> lightning I might get an Airpod 4 for the USB-C though the Airpod 3 sucked and I'm suspecting the Airpod 4 is just as bad. Falls out (compared to Airpod 2). Pinch to play/pause/que sucks compared to Tap to play/pause/cue. Several friends had similar experiences including several friends that work at Apple. All of them returned their Airpod 3s.
    • mrcb_ 2y ago
      A magsafe power bank should help alleviate the need for a lightning cable just for charging airpods.
      • nox101 2y ago
        How does that help? now I need to carry a magsafe charger everywhere I go so that I always have a way to charge? That's not better than needing 2 different kinds of cables. it's worse.
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• JumpCrisscross 2y ago
  > Is anyone here actually excited about the features they just announced? I'm frankly happy Cupertino didn't add bullshit features to make it exciting. This is an incremental update. They opened up minor new capabilities, some of which will matter to some people to varying degrees of compellingness.
• coliveira 2y ago
  I only upgrade every 4 or 5 years, and only because I need more storage after a few years of usage. This time I'll probably "upgrade" to last year's version.
  • lucb1e 2y ago
    Could also buy a device that takes upgradable storage, if that's truly your bottleneck / the reason you're replacing the whole device. Current state of the art is 1TB sdcards iirc, probably in 5 years they'll be denser again
    • coliveira 2y ago
      I can only do this because it is an iPhone. Android phones wont last more than 2 years (while still working decently).
      • noname120 2y ago
        Not sure why you're getting downvoted when almost no Android devices get security updates after 2 years, sometimes even less. Without the custom ROMs (that Google is putting an end to through hardware-backed Device Integrity) you get left behind without updates incredibly quickly.
      • lucb1e 2y ago
        Then you go back for warranty? Depends on the manufacturer and country of course but in the EU 2 years is the minimum and some member states extended that I once had a phone break just shy of 2 years and got it repaired, lasted three more years after and I only had to replace it because apps started to require a newer OS, the hardware was fine On the other hand, the iOS device I had for a few years at work broke part of the touchscreen just after 2 years (nice one, Apple, just out of warranty) and had a battery life that was bad from day one, but then I only use it twice a day for 2FA and the occasional call so it wasn't quite worth sending back YMMV... saying that any phone running a particular OS must have hardware lasting no longer than the minimum warranty period is beyond me. Well, except when there is only one manufacturer's monoculture of course
• dagmx 2y ago
  Video and photography are by far the biggest feature that people buy phones for. Pretty much every phone manufacturer focuses on cameras for that reason.
  • asadotzler 2y ago
    Incorrect. Video and photography is all the phone manufacturers can practically upgrade given the form factor constraints (size, thermals, etc.) so that's what consumers have been trained to differentiate between generations and makes and makers. The truth is the feature most people buy new phones for is more battery, and that's about it.
• paperplatter 2y ago
  I'm just glad it makes the slightly less new ones a bit cheaper. My iPhone 6S needs to either get a new battery or get replaced.
  • callalex 2y ago
    The 6S is one of the last iPhones you can reasonably replace the battery on by yourself with a kit and guide from iFixIt. Cherish it!
    • paperplatter 2y ago
      Yeah but unfortunately I really needed more space than what I bought, and I figure at some point my cell carrier will drop support like they did with my 5. Also the 6S has that infamous battery design flaw. So the battery repair cost is something to think about vs replacing the phone.
• Xenoamorphous 2y ago
  For better or worse the current big thing is AI. I wouldn’t expect any big leap in hardware anytime soon, other than perhaps running local AI models locally.
• wilsonnb3 2y ago
  I mean, the big feature last year was that it was made out of titanium making it slightly lighter than the previous stainless steel models but still heavier than the aluminum regular models for no reason. Video recording is cooler than that, at least.
  • amarshall 2y ago
    They added enough weight back to the 16 Pro that it’s now only 7 grams lighter than the 14 Pro, whereas the 15 Pro was 19 grams lighter than the 14 Pro. (I just want a new Mini, tbh)
• rkagerer 2y ago
  > Touch ID? I missed the memo - I thought Touch ID was abandoned in favor of Face ID? Did they bring it back on the latest models? Can you use it again instead of Face ID, and is it as instant as it was on the older Apple phones?
  • yoyoyo1122 2y ago
    TouchID is still on iPad Air and Mini. Would love to have both! FaceID never works for me when I'm laying on my side in bed.
  • paxys 2y ago
    It isn't abandoned. The side button on the iPad Air for example is a touch ID sensor. They just don't want to bring it to iPhone for some reason. Plus all other high-end phones from competing manufacturers have touch sensors under the screen now.
    • hinkley 2y ago
      The side button on the iPad is Touch ID, and my M2 Macbook pro and apple keyboard both have touch ID on them. The only two devices I have that don't have touch ID are my watch and my phone - the two devices I use Apple Pay on the most. WTF Apple.
  • throwitaway1123 2y ago
    The rest of the industry seems to be moving towards under-screen ultrasonic fingerprint readers, which if Apple adopted, would allow them to shrink the notch by getting rid of the Face ID sensors. I think they've dug in their heels on Face ID though, so it likely won't happen (although they did reverse course on Force Touch, so anything is possible). They likely won't end up reducing the size of the notch any further until they figure out how to either make Face ID work with just a single selfie camera (which would inevitably be less secure), or put the sensors under some sort of semi-transparent display. Many people thought they missed an opportunity by not simply putting the fingerprint sensor under the Apple logo on the back of the iPhone, but they probably didn't like the UX of that solution.
• xyst 2y ago
  Not really. Apple has stagnated.
  • tpmoney 2y ago
    People have been saying this every Apple announcement since the first iPod. It's replaced the classic "beleaguered Apple" line that was so popular in the press before they were as massive as they are now. I'm not sure an incremental iPhone update is any real proof of stagnation given that every iPhone update since probably the X which introduced face ID has been incremental, with the predictable accompanying "nothing exciting or new since Steve Jobs" commentary. And certainly one could maybe argue that the fact that every update since the X has been largely incremental is that proof that Apple has stagnated, I would offer the counter argument that no one today would pick an iPhone X over an iPhone 16 even if the X still ran the latest iOS, and when the X was released Apple was still shipping computers with intel chips and has since then successfully introduced an entirely new class of computer processors capable of competing with x86, completed its 3rd complete and relatively seamless architecture change, along with ripple effects in the non-apple world in the way of boosting interest in Windows ARM and increased focus and market access for things like the Qualcom Snapdragon Elite chips. So while they may have slowed down some, I think going from the first A4 series chip in 2010 to an entire industry changing desktop class processor series in 2020 is the sort of "stagnation" I can live with.
• dylan604 2y ago
  It said A18 uses 20% less power than A17. However, that might have been for the CPU cores. I don't remember if they made claims specific to the GPU cores or the ML cores.
• 4fterd4rk 2y ago
  Well it does actually have faster wireless charging and better battery life but ooookay. I buy a new phone every year because I'm rich, I love technology, and this is a device I use for a significant portion of every single day.
  • lucb1e 2y ago
    Please tell me you at least give the old phone to someone who can still use it for multiple years, rather than putting it with recycling where they may reuse some metals or, at best, some of the parts
    • fundad 2y ago
      So you think they are scrapping a year-old phone after paying you $500? I think they replace the battery and resell it as refurbished.
      • lucb1e 2y ago
        I don't know, hence phrasing it as a hope/expectation but not as 'thinking' either way
    • adrr 2y ago
      You trade them in for $500.
  • dbbk 2y ago
    Good for you? No one's saying you're not allowed to buy one every year if you want to...
• jessriedel 2y ago
  I'm excited that the cost of iPhone 15's will continue to fall so I can soon eliminate lightning cables from my life. Please everyone, go out and upgrade from 15 to 16! :)
  • mohaine 2y ago
    A set of these, while still not ideal, make the transition much easier. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B6PDGLWZ https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B6PDGLWZ
    • paxys 2y ago
      This cable has changed my life: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C6M8157L https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C6M8157L
    • jessriedel 2y ago
      I have half a dozen in my bag already :)
    • nick3443 2y ago
      I bought a bunch of the ones that have 2x lightning, USBC, usb-mini. Put them in my car and house etc. now my spouse has a new iPhone and we need 2x of the USBC, so I'll have to redo the whole setup!
  • noname120 2y ago
    I wish Apple never (got forced to) drop the lightning port. USB-C is vastly inferior in terms of durability due to its dumb design with a tiny PCB that sticks out right in the middle and an hermaphrodite plug that goes around it while still being inside the port.
    • nick3443 2y ago
      Lightning does seem like the smarter mechanical design. Less to break on the phone side. Smaller overall. It's a shame it didn't become the general usb standard but I guess that's apple keeping it proprietary?
• heraldgeezer 2y ago
  Crazy how my Oneplus 10 (2 years old btw) charges to 100% in 30min and 80% in 20min from 0. All I do is charge when I shower, and it's done.
• fundad 2y ago
  I don't think paying inflated prices for more expensive inputs while keeping the same retail price is good business, I wish it were because everything has gone up. Other than the camera button, Apple focused on features enabled by the System-on-a-chip because the per-unit marginal of those features are low. The 16 has improved computational photography which could be a substitute for optical zoom for some families who previously bought the Pro for optical zoom. It makes sense that they would keep prices constant this year considering the pattern over the last decade. Apple raised the retail price on the 15 Pro Max and added 5x zoom (2023). Apple raised the price on the iPhone 14 by using last-generation SoC (2022). Apple raised the price on the iPhone 12 and 12 Pro by dropping the AC adaptor and adding carrier charges of $30 (at least in the US) (2020). Apple raised the retail price of the iPhone 8 ($50 more than the 7) and in the same year, put more expensive inputs in the the X line which became the Pro line (2017). Apple put more expensive inputs in the 6 Plus and priced it $100 more than the 6 (2014).
• DidYaWipe 2y ago
  My last iPhone purchase was the original SE... which turned out to be the most highly-regarded iPhone of them all. It got smashed, so now I have to deal with all the regressions. No TouchID, no headphone jack, no SIM slot. Will I enjoy having a much better camera? Yep. But that won't do me any good while I can't listen to shit on the plane or in my cars... unless I carry an octopus of dongles everywhere, and none of it breaks and none of its non-removable batteries die. The sad fact is that manufacturers work harder to screw the customer now than they do to impress him. Apologists enable this behavior, and entire product categories regress.
  • sourcecodeplz 2y ago
    They still sell the SE. It has touch ID and SIM slot. No headphone jack though.
    • DidYaWipe 2y ago
      Even the 3rd-gen is pretty old at this point, and it retains the dumb rounded edges of much older models. The original SE had the nice flat edges, which Apple has wisely returned to.
      • zuhsetaqi 2y ago
        Your original iPhone SE was even older so what is your point? Rounded edges are a dealbreaker?
        • DidYaWipe 2y ago
          Yes! Those and the missing headphone jack made that mediocre update not worth it. For the last few years I've been waiting for the final, long-overdue ditching of all Lightning ports.
  • nick3443 2y ago
    I missed wired headphones... Until I tried air pods pro. Even though I use them with a pixel phone fwiw.
• kayodelycaon 2y ago
  The camera button and x5 zoom is why I'm finally upgrading from a 12 Pro.
• willseth 2y ago
  I have a 14 Pro, and the main reasons I want to upgrade are for Apple Intelligence (mostly Siri-based) and for the better camera and video (as my family's default photog). If I didn't have kids I could wait a few more years on the camera, but I've been wanting a better Siri for years.
• rongenre 2y ago
  I'm on a 6 year old XS. When I upgrade, I get 5G and USB-C, and a chip that's now ahead of the OS.
• andrei_says_ 2y ago
  Upgrading from 13pro for the camera. The 13pro camera is OK but the 50mm is still very pixelated. As a street / candid / pj photographer, the iPhone cameras + photo capture flow is unbeatable.
• TOMDM 2y ago
  We're probably at least a decade away, but what happens when Apple _cant_ make a better iPhone?
  • lucb1e 2y ago
    Our tech is already great, we just need to distribute the awesomeness better. If innovation stops today, honestly I'm rather happy, we'd just keep building the tech we have until everyone gets their copy That said, it seems pretty unrealistic that we can't figure out any incremental improvement until advancing our understanding of the universe. Both have been happening in parallel for centuries if not millennia
• amluto 2y ago
  I’d be in favor of the massively improved battery life that would come from making the main body of the phone thicker. The camera bump is absurdly thick, and making the rest of the phone 1-2mm thicker would make the camera stick out less and add a lot of internal volume that could be used for a larger battery.
  • pzo 2y ago
    for me the issue would be not thickness but heaviness - iphone are quite heavy already comparing to androids even though the latter have batteries with more capacity. I switched from iPhone XS (177g) to iPhone 13 mini (141g) and really enjoy that it's much lighter. iPhones 16 pro is 199g.
• m3kw9 2y ago
  I upgrade because I use it for few years and it’s starting to get slow, and stuff is breaking
• can16358p 2y ago
  I personally don't care about smaller notch (wouldn't say no of course, but not dealbreaker) Battery life is more than enough for me almost every day. Why on Earth should I downgrade to Touch ID when using Face ID? I cared about the camera and improved ultra wide angle, 5x telephoto (my current one, 14 Pro Max has 3x) and 4K 120FPS HDR are enough for me to upgrade. I agree that the general improvements could be better though: nowadays it's mostly software/AI stuff, and I'd definitely would like to have better camera/better display upgrades instead of just software stuff.
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  • hbn 2y ago
    The new iPhones don't even have a notch anymore. The 14 Pro switched to the dynamic island 2 years ago, and last year the whole 15 lineup got it. And the thing with the dynamic island is it's mostly drawn on in software. It's actually 2 small cutouts, a pill and a circle for FaceID and the selfie camera. They fill it in with the island at the top to make it look like it's all software, so I don't see them shrinking it since it's being used as a feature, where apps can minimize into it with live data (music playing, sports scores, etc)
• rhplus 2y ago
  Reminder for folks with older models: an Apple authorized battery replacement is about $80 in the US and will refresh your device enough to stretch its life a few more years.
• Hendrikto 2y ago
  What are you talking about? The new models do have better battery life and faster charging.
• Closi 2y ago
  > Smaller notch? Touch ID? Better battery life? Faster charging? Larger default storage? Nope, let's skip all that and spend most of the event talking about video recording. They probably have done a load of research that shows that people on the whole buy new phones more because they think they will take better photos/video of their travels/friends/kids, rather than because of the notch size.
• kaba0 2y ago
  Did you even watch it? The battery life has definitely been an important point here (likely due to Apple intelligence using a lot of energy).
• kemayo 2y ago
  > Is anyone here actually excited about the features they just announced? I'm somewhat tempted by the camera improvements. Mostly the increased resolution on the ultra-wide camera, though the dedicated camera button might be nice. There've also been times when the higher zoom lens would have been useful for me, and it being available as standard means I'd actually have it without needing to buy a too-large phone. The ultra-wide matters even when you're not using it for the zoomed-out fisheye shots, because it also is used for the macro mode. When you're within about a foot-or-so of a subject, the Camera app will switch to macro mode and quietly transition to using an extremely cropped view from the center of the ultra-wide lens. This lets it focus really well on up-close things... but the image quality is noticeable worse. So hopefully a vastly higher-res ultra-wide would result in me not feeling I should fiddle with camera settings around that transition point. (Yes, this is very much a problem of Apple's own making. It started being annoying around the 14, when the main camera's focal length changed a bit and made them push the distance they had to trigger macro mode from out so it was no longer only happening when you were around 6 inches from a subject.)
• omar12 2y ago
  I am excited for the features announced. My current phone is the iPhone XS, which in September will be 6 years since its release. Mind you, I try not to get excited for other releases when I made the decision to not yet upgrade my phone.