I love my 15 Pro! Battery life is 100% and 127 cycles. I use the Action button for shortcuts. Love it!
It's been a bit over six months since the iPhone 15 lineup came out in September, and MacRumors videographer Dan Barbera has been using an iPhone 15 Pro Max sans case since launch. Over on our YouTube channel, Dan did a long term review to demo how his phone has held up and his thoughts on the Action button, battery life, and camera features.
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The iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max are Apple's first iPhones with a titanium shell instead of a stainless steel or aluminum shell, and titanium is supposed to be more durable. After suffering from several drops without a case, Dan's iPhone is scuffed and chipped, but there are no scratches. As for the screen, it has a minor scratch or two.
Battery health is at 98 percent and 174 cycles, and there have been some fluctuations in battery life with software updates. It's a little hard to get a solid read on battery because of day-to-day differences in usage.
Some people have had trouble finding a use for the Action button, but assigning it to the camera is one way to ensure that it gets used. With the camera setting, a quick press on the button launches the camera so there's no need to press on the Home Screen or open up the Camera app. Apple is rumored to be adding a dedicated Capture button for the camera with the iPhone 16 models, so the Action button might get less useful at that point for those who use it for the camera.
For iPhone 15 Pro owners, how's your battery life, and do you use the Action button? Let us know in the comments below.
Article Link: Review: Six Months With the iPhone 15 Pro
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Review: Six Months With the iPhone 15 Pro
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Bear in mind, for those that don’t know, Cycles does not equal how many times we charge (I’m sure most know that). Cycle = full battery charges. (0-100)
I have had my iPhone 15 Pro for 171 days, and charge to 80% optimised. I have only 90 cycles and 100%. I’d say the battery usage and efficiency is pretty darned good for my experience.
I have had my iPhone 15 Pro for 171 days, and charge to 80% optimised. I have only 90 cycles and 100%. I’d say the battery usage and efficiency is pretty darned good for my experience.
lol yeah, I felt some shame reading everybody else’s numbers and not seeing any higher than mine.
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Damn, there's a lot of folks that REALLY use their phones ALL day.
Mine is at 56 cycles with a steady average of 3hrs sot since I got it in October. I can't imagine using it for 8hrs to reach 150-200 cycles like the others.
Mine is at 56 cycles with a steady average of 3hrs sot since I got it in October. I can't imagine using it for 8hrs to reach 150-200 cycles like the others.
I don’t know that it was shaming. 300 cycles means going from 100% down to 0% almost twice a day. Thats a lot of cycles.
I would totally add it to my action button menu, but I don’t think it is possible in Shortcuts to toggle it.
Wasn’t his point that the titanium was better than the aluminium? The aluminium frames use to crack and his only scuffed when dropping it. Either way, going without a case on a phone, whilst nice looking is asking for trouble.
I've had my 15PM since November. 100% capacity. I constantly use my phone, and typically get 2 to 3 days of use before needing to charge.
Totally pleased with the above. It's a great phone! I especially like the suggestions offered when writing text - it's uncanny how accurate it is.
Totally pleased with the above. It's a great phone! I especially like the suggestions offered when writing text - it's uncanny how accurate it is.
I upgraded to the 15 Pro because I has having frustrating lag with my keyboard on my iPhone 12 Pro. But my 15 Pro also has painful lag when typing emails. The worst is when the iPhone knows what letter you want to press but it's the wrong one. So you delete and try to press the correct one quickly and it again selects the adjacent wrong one. It makes me want to throw my iPhone in the trash.
The weight and balance way better than 14 pro.
USB-C is a lot better than I thought it was going to be.
Battery is a little better. I’m at 124 cycles / 100% capacity, including 7-8 trips on the road since I got it. I work at home, and try to keep it charged above 80%. Which I know is bad.
13 pro is still a great phone - in order, I like the 15 pro (me), 13 pro (wife), …
with 14 pro (daughter) and 12 non-pro (son) tied.
The 14 pro was a disaster.
And I do not use the action button … ever.
USB-C is a lot better than I thought it was going to be.
Battery is a little better. I’m at 124 cycles / 100% capacity, including 7-8 trips on the road since I got it. I work at home, and try to keep it charged above 80%. Which I know is bad.
13 pro is still a great phone - in order, I like the 15 pro (me), 13 pro (wife), …
with 14 pro (daughter) and 12 non-pro (son) tied.
The 14 pro was a disaster.
And I do not use the action button … ever.
Battery is at 98% with 219 cycles and it's been set to 80% charging since I first turned it on which is a little disappointing.
Ironically I'm on iOS 17.5 and the optimized charging screen is messed up and only showing developer variables for the different charging settings.
Ironically I'm on iOS 17.5 and the optimized charging screen is messed up and only showing developer variables for the different charging settings.
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I definitely like the USB C, but the cable connection is really buggy compared to Lightning. The lightning cable was certainly a better physical connection. Unplugging and plugging back in about 50% of the time with Anker cables is annoying. Maybe it's Apple, and maybe it's Anker... It shouldn't be this way.
A degraded battery will also limit the CPU speed, to prevent power spikes that cause a reboot. Keeping the battery at an 80% limit and 100% health will prevent that.
Always on. 120hz. More crap. Mail bug. Larger photo size/sync. Cellular drain. Home screen widgets.
This is why clean energy and 80% are BS.
It’s a phone not a car.
Keeping 80-100% does better job than maxing at 80%. Period.
Very same with yours but coming from iPhone SE 2020!
I'm a heavy user and I charge like x2/x3 a day on 80% limit (I charge when the battery is around 40%) since day 1 (Feb 21).
Still at 32 cycles @ 100%.
I have my "play sound when battery rises above 75% when charging" etc and also "auto low-power mode and reduce white point on battery 35% below", maybe that helps too.
100% battery health after 102 cycles. I have the 80% limit on since day one and until a few days ago I used to keep it in low power mode perpetually. After I discovered that that was capping the refresh rate at 30, I disabled the shortcut and am enjoying the motion smoothness 😊
True, you can't toggle it, but you can get directly into the battery settings. Then you're really close to the battery heath option.
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prefs:root=BATTERY_USAGE&path=BATTERY_HEALTH