When MacRumors says the iPhone 18 Pro models will have 10 new features and the #1 "feature" on the list is a Dark Cherry color, it tells me everything I need to know about it.
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iPhone 18 Pro Launching Later This Year With These 10 New Features
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Depends on what you are coming from. I’m looking forward to it, but I’m still using my 12 Pro.
Spock
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5% Better than the iPhone 17 Pro, it's the best iPhone we have ever made.
PlatformAgnostic
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I don't know about others here but iPhone on cellular is just horrible. I have the 17 Pro on Tmobile and also a Z Fold 7 on Tmobile. The cellular performance between the 2 is day and night. This has always been the case even before the C-series modems. And call dropping on the iPhone is terrible. It has gotten to the point where I have to forward calls from the iPhone to the Z Fold. At this point, I keep the iPhone for iMessage and the Apple Watch which is still second to none.
BeatsByTim
macrumors 6502
There is nothing new to innovate when it comes to cellphones. They are all commodity items at this point. "It folds" is the best we've got. Congratulations, Apple. You did it!
I like the camera upgrade and I’m tired of having the last
Lightning device in the house; I’m making the move, and going Max as well.
roklanhavok
macrumors regular
The blue and purple colors shown are atrocious. Let's hope they're not accurate. Keep doing orange.
In my eyes, this is pointless. They should just release new phones every two years. There is no significant innovation in these to make them worth buying. I have an iPhone 15 Plus, and I don't feel the need to get a new one. This is not 18. it is more like 17s 😀
Honestly this might be one of my primary drivers as well. I hate having Lightning and USB C chargers in the cars and around the house just because I won't upgrade until I see a functional/technical reason for me to. I suppose is iOS 27 drops support for my 12PM I will finally meet that bar.
uacd
macrumors 68000
Feature 11: it is gonna be about as useless as 17,16, 15 or any other iPhone and gonna be 1000 years behind what Android has been offering for so many years.
Oh btw, is camera going to be as blurry as it is in 17 Pro? I doubt variable aperture can help since they cannot even bring adequate lens designs
Oh btw, is camera going to be as blurry as it is in 17 Pro? I doubt variable aperture can help since they cannot even bring adequate lens designs
transpo1
macrumors 68000
That's interesting– anyone else with these issues? My GF has the iPhone 16 Pro on Tmobile but she doesn't experience any of that.
No, no, no-- a quad edged display is the best they've got 🥲
You forget that if they release iPhones every two years, they miss out on profit to direct to R&D for their yearly releases.
I'll let that one sink in... 🤣
I have reached a point in tech where the only real reasons to upgrade are my phone being as slow as molasses and the battery lasting 30 minutes. They have run out of real improvements to offer, at least for the time being. AI isn’t it and these mediocre improvements are really only useful if coming from a much older device.
FattiesGoneWild
macrumors 6502a
johnsawyercjs
macrumors 68000
It's also possible, even likely, that the IR camera that receives the IR light from the flood illuminator and the dot projector will be moved under the display, especially since a leaker posted a photo some months ago showing such a front-facing camera rearrangement prototype assembly made by Apple. The flood illuminator part of the assembly is relatively small, so to get a significantly smaller Dynamic Island cutout, more than that might need to be under the display.
macduke
macrumors G5
I’m on the iPhone Upgrade Program. Right now I think I’m going to do the 18 Pro in Dark Cherry, skip upgrading next year, and then get the iPhone Fold 3 in 2029 once they’ve worked out any issues and hopefully it has telephoto by then. Then I’ll pass the 18 Pro down to my daughter for her first phone. She’ll be 14 in 8th grade then, and she loves purple, and that’s close.
Unless the Fold just blows me away? Could always get her an E iPhone later. But money is getting tight this year. Less people are hiring web development since 1. They say their nephew can just make them a site in an hour with Claude, 2. Google violated the social contract with the web and is replacing websites with AI results, and 3. The economy is contracting because of the straight being closed. In stealth mode right now on a new startup with some guys in an AI-resistant industry, hopefully it pans out. Things are about to get very interesting, as the curse goes.
Unless the Fold just blows me away? Could always get her an E iPhone later. But money is getting tight this year. Less people are hiring web development since 1. They say their nephew can just make them a site in an hour with Claude, 2. Google violated the social contract with the web and is replacing websites with AI results, and 3. The economy is contracting because of the straight being closed. In stealth mode right now on a new startup with some guys in an AI-resistant industry, hopefully it pans out. Things are about to get very interesting, as the curse goes.
robfoll
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Gadger Snr
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It's a no from me, waiting for the 20th year iPhone next year, had the iPhone X at the 10th year. Also, my iPhone 16 Pro Max 512 has been my best iPhone ever. So got to be special to make me upgrade. The new iFold coming, too expenisve and best to wait until the third version when any problems will be sorted.
Do you expect lightyear advancements every year? Most people hold on to their phones for at least 3 years. By then, all the small improvements add up.