Other Currently on iPhone 12 Pro Max. Upgrade to iPhone 16 Plus or wait?

[mudguts]

I regret upgrading to iPhone 16 Pro Max because of how bad iOS 18 is. I would stay on my iPhone 13 Pro Max with iOS 17.7 if I could. But you cannot cancel trade-in once you sent it.

Currently, iPhone is the most irritating device in my life. Absolutely unstable, laggy and unreliable. But maybe it is good for me, I want to use it less and less.

I must be one of the lucky ones because my iPhone 12 Pro Max seems to work fine with iOS 18. That being said I'm in no rush to get rid of it (maybe I'll get the iPhone 17 but meh....)

 

[mudguts]

"I am still quite satisfied with my iPhone 12 Pro Max" That is your answer right there. If you are happy with what you have, why spend a couple of thousand dollars on a new phone? If you are ok with burning money for no reason other then a very brief dopamine high when getting a new device, and the depression that comes after when it really does not change your life for the better at all and you continue on with your upgrade anxiety.

If you are worried about support being dropped you can buy at that time when support is actually dropped. What are you really getting with a new phone, the biggest thing is a better camera, though the cameras have been pretty amazing for a while now considering these are cameras on a phone! You will have some apps load up a little faster then they already do, and the screen resolution might be a bit better. AI is a big thing, but for many I think it is just a gimmick that at the moment is not going to change much for day to day use. Stick with being content, keep your hard earned dollars or if you really want to spend give to a charity."I am still quite satisfied with my iPhone 12 Pro Max" That is your answer right there. If you are happy with what you have, why spend a couple of thousand dollars on a new phone?

"I am still quite satisfied with my iPhone 12 Pro Max" That is your answer right there. If you are happy with what you have, why spend a couple of thousand dollars on a new phone?

This is exactly my thoughts. My iphone 12 does exactly what I want it to do. I not going to drop about $1,300 on a new iPhone every year so that it's a little bit faster

 

[Marty80]

My iPhone 12 Pro Max may be the first phone I ever hanged on to for over 4 years.

As my gut feeling is that in the past the iPhone 13 Pro Max reduced the notch, than was followed by the iPhone 14 Pro Max Dynamic Island.

Now the iPhone 17 pro max is rumoured to reduce the Dynamic Island, with Ross Young claiming under screen Face ID will debut in the iPhone 18 pro max.

I hate the Dynamic Island and have no interest in AI, so I prefer to wait for Apple to sink the Dynamic Island and redesign the iPhone.

The iPhone 18 pro max may be the first step in that direction.

 

[jagooch]

It’s always better to wait. The next phone ( and the next phone after that, and after that….) will have better technology than the current offering.

Also, if you always wait for the next phone, you’ll never buy a new one until yours breaks, and that will save you a to of money.

 

[PPCmike]

Curious how is the radio on the 16 vs the 12? I'm getting fed up right now on having two sets of cable and it might be enough to set me over the limit of what I can take.. yeah I know the past model had usb c as well but I misplaced a lightning cable but I have 6 usb c cables so.