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Same hah. I’m like…. I think they gave me the wrong phone! I came from a 12 mini and the battery improvement is so welcome! I even have AOD turned on. Dynamic Island is a nice touch and comes in really handy as an information tool.

The ONLY thing I’m bummed about is the action button doesn’t work in your pocket. For me, that’s a giant fail since I wanted a way to skip songs while the phone is in my pocket.

I’m hoping in a future update you can customize the action button a bit more like have a double click do something different and change the click speed like a quick press can do one thing, a double press can do something else and a long press can do a third thing.

I think the almost bezel-less screen gives the impression that the 15 Pro is larger than it actually is haha, but yes I im coming from the 12 and 13 mini (and SE2 before them), so I really like the smaller iphones with a passion. The 15 Pro is definitely larger and slightly heavier, but ive gotten a bit used to it now and really appreciating the longer battery life (each 100% charge usually spans 3 days for me!). Really liking the Natural Titanium, Action button, stunning almost bezel-less Promotion screen, USBC and the cameras. I've turned AOD off, not really interested in that to be honest.

Performance wise, the 3 Nm A17 Pro and 8 GB RAM means I wont have to upgrade for a long time, but the 13 mini was/is very powerful and snappy also, but the 15 Pro just gives more quality of life improvements.
 
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Have gotten used to the size and weight now. Even using it with a case most of the time and when i remove it, it feels so light and easy to grip/hold lol

Battery is just amazing. i don’t get below 60% before i go to bed and the Mini often got below 35% (triggering battery safe mode).
I did turn off AoD though, because it just distracts me and i don’t really see the point.

Didn’t expect the transition to be this easy… when i tried to switch from the X to the 12 Pro i really hated the size and weight, which is why i went with the Mini back then.
 
Work issued me a 15 Pro, but my personal is a 13 Mini. It’s nice that the new Pro’s weight loss makes the difference in one-handed use a bit more manageable. The Pro is still too big, I prefer the Mini size for sure. A Pro Mini would be so, so cool if they ever made one.

The camera system on the Pro is truly incredible, extremely impressive. The camera bump that it requires is ridiculous looking though.

Basically, everything about the Pro is “more” than the Mini. And there are just parts of the iPhone experience where more was/is not needed, in my opinion. The Mini is enough.
 
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