Of course, not too much has changed since the iPhone 17 Pro.
The iPhone 18 Pro mostly looks and feels like last year’s flagship.
Apple has gone from a 3-nanometer process node in the A19 Pro to 2 nm here.
Apple promises up to 40 percent better sustained performance compared to last year’s Pro and up to 100 percent better than the iPhone 16 Pro before that.
My personal daily driver is an iPhone 16 Pro Max, which is now sitting at 86 percent maximum capacity per Apple’s battery health panel in the Settings app.
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Apple promises up to 40 percent better sustained performance compared to last year’s Pro and up to 100 percent better than the iPhone 16 Pro before that.
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As Apple’s Tim Cook era draws to a close, we’re seeing more experimentation with the iPhone’s design than we’ve seen in a long time, but you wouldn’t know it from the iPhone 18 Pro.
Of course, not too much has changed since the iPhone 17 Pro.
We’re seeing something of a transition for the “Pro” iPhones.
The iPhone 18 Pro mostly looks and feels like last year’s flagship.
The main design difference this time around is a smaller Dynamic Island, that cut-out at the top of the screen that houses the front-facing camera and sensors.
Apple has gone from a 3-nanometer process node in the A19 Pro to 2 nm here.
Apple also says the A20 Pro has “the widest memory interface ever shipped in an iPhone” (naturally) with 50 percent more bandwidth.
Apple promises up to 40 percent better sustained performance compared to last year’s Pro and up to 100 percent better than the iPhone 16 Pro before that.
Apple has long used offline video playback as one of its measures, and it says the iPhone 18 Pro can offer up to 36 hours of that on a single charge, compared to 33 for its predecessor.
My personal daily driver is an iPhone 16 Pro Max, which is now sitting at 86 percent maximum capacity per Apple’s battery health panel in the Settings app.
In terms of other additions, Apple has put its proprietary C2 cellular modem in the 18 Pro so that’s part of the battery life story here, too.
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