iPhone 15/15 Pro Impressions: Not Just USB-C!

A dark-skinned hand holds a dark blue iPhone 15 Pro, showing the front display with app icons. The hand rotates the phone to show the side profile with volume buttons and then the back with three camera lenses and the Apple logo. The background is a brightly lit, spacious room with many blurred people in the background, suggesting an event.

"All right, so today I got a hold of and I got to poke around the new iPhone 15 and the iPhone 15 Pros."

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The scene transitions to an aerial view from an airplane window, showing fluffy white clouds below a clear blue sky. The blue engine of the plane is visible in the lower part of the frame, then a shot of the presenter wearing headphones on the plane, looking thoughtful.

"I do remember flying here and I'm thinking, what could Apple possibly do? Like what could they possibly introduce with a new iPhone, the 23rd iPhone that's actually interesting."

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The presenter, a dark-skinned man with short, curly hair and a beard, stands in a brightly lit room, wearing a white t-shirt with a red, white, and black geometric design. He gestures with his hands as he speaks, first pointing a finger, then spreading his hands wide, and finally bringing them together in a clasping motion. A large window is to his right, showing green trees outside. To his left, a bed with blue and green pillows and a floor lamp are visible. A framed abstract artwork hangs on the wall.

"Now, there is more stuff than just the iPhone that was mentioned at this Wonderlust event that Apple hosted, including some stuff that straight up wasn't mentioned on stage at all. So, we'll get to that, but this is just the new iPhone stuff. So, stay tuned and get subscribed to see the rest. Let's just talk about the new iPhone 15 and 15 Pro."

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A close-up shot of the dark blue iPhone 15 Pro's triple camera system on its back. The lenses are dark and circular, set within a raised square module. The background is blurred white with faint bokeh circles of light.

"So, here's a lens to look at all this stuff through. Coming into this, basically everything Apple just added to their newest flagship phones falls into two buckets."

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A dark-skinned hand holds a dark blue iPhone 15 Pro, rotating it to show the USB-C port at the bottom. The phone then flips to show the back with the camera, then back to the USB-C port. The background is a blurred crowd of people in a brightly lit room.

"It's either something we've already seen in some other phone for years, or it's some ecosystem feature that only works with other iPhones."

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The presenter, a dark-skinned man, gestures with his hands as he speaks, first spreading them wide, then bringing them closer together, and finally making a small, precise gesture with his thumb and forefinger. He wears a white t-shirt with a red, white, and black geometric design. The background is a brightly lit room with a large window showing green trees.

"Which is not necessarily a bad thing, but it's just just a lens to look through this stuff at, just to keep an eye on it."

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A dark-skinned hand holds a dark blue iPhone 15, rotating it to show the back with two camera lenses. The background is a blurred crowd of people in a brightly lit, spacious room with circular ceiling lights.

"So, this is the iPhone 15. There's the same two sizes again, iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus."

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Two pink iPhone 15 models lie side-by-side on a white surface. The camera focuses on the back of the phones, highlighting the dual camera setup. A dark-skinned hand gently touches the back of one of the phones, then moves to the other, emphasizing the smooth, satin finish and color fade.

"And, yeah, you know, there are some small changes like the slight soft corner radii on the aluminum rails and the one-piece glass back fading between a lighter and darker version of the same color, like this new pink one. It's pretty seamless."

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A dark blue iPhone 15 lies face down on a white surface, showcasing its satin soft-touch back. Another iPhone, out of focus, is in the background. The camera slowly zooms in on the textured back of the phone.

"Also, satin soft-touch backs across the whole lineup instead of glossy. I definitely like that."

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A dark-skinned hand holds a light gray iPhone 15, rotating it to show the USB-C port at the bottom. The phone then flips to show the back with the camera, then back to the USB-C port. The background is a blurred crowd of people in a brightly lit room.

"But the big headlining feature, really, is it's USB now. Lightning is officially dead. These new iPhones are all USB-C across the board."

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Two pink iPhone 15 models lie side-by-side on a white surface, showcasing their USB-C ports at the bottom. The camera slowly zooms in on the ports, highlighting the change from Lightning.

"These new iPhones are all USB-C across the board."

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The presenter, a dark-skinned man, gestures with his hands as he speaks, first spreading them wide, then pointing a finger, and finally making a small, precise gesture with his thumb and forefinger. He wears a white t-shirt with a red, white, and black geometric design. On-screen graphics appear, showing a large 30-pin connector and a Lightning cable, illustrating the port changes he describes. The background is a brightly lit room with a large window showing green trees.

"Now, on one hand, this is a huge deal. Like there's only ever been one port change in the iPhone ever. Back in 2012, we went from that 30-pin connector thing to this new lightning thing, which we've had ever since. And now the second one ever is USB-C."

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A dark-skinned hand holds a dark blue iPhone 15 Pro, rotating it to show the USB-C port at the bottom. A white cable is plugged into the port. The background is a blurred crowd of people in a brightly lit room.

"But on the other hand, it's I don't know, it's just USB. Like it's the same port all these other laptops and tablets all over the planet have had for the past couple years. I imagine that might be another year or two before the whole lineup, like the baseline cheap iPad and the iPhone SE and everything else gets USB-C."

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Two dark blue iPhone 15 Pro models lie side-by-side on a white surface, showcasing their USB-C ports at the bottom. The camera slowly zooms in on the ports, highlighting the change to USB-C.

"I imagine that might be another year or two before the whole lineup, like the baseline cheap iPad and the iPhone SE and everything else gets USB-C."

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A dark-skinned hand holds a light gray iPhone 15, rotating it to show the USB-C port at the bottom. The background is a blurred crowd of people in a brightly lit room.

"But yeah, I don't know. We knew it was coming, but it's still kind of surreal to look at an iPhone and see a USB port on it."

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The presenter, a dark-skinned man, gestures with his hands as he speaks, first spreading them wide, then pointing a finger, and finally making a small, precise gesture with his thumb and forefinger. He wears a white t-shirt with a red, white, and black geometric design. The background is a brightly lit room with a large window showing green trees.

"So, what does this enable? It's a real question, right? Uh, first of all, it's the one cable that you can ideally use to charge all your stuff. So, your Mac, your iPad, your iPhone, your friend's Android phone, the new AirPods, which just got a new USB-C case. All that stuff, one cable."

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The presenter, a dark-skinned man, gestures with his hands as he speaks, first pointing a finger, then making a small, precise gesture with his thumb and forefinger, and finally spreading his hands wide. An on-screen graphic appears, showing a white iPhone 15 and a pair of white AirPods in their charging case, connected by a white USB-C cable, illustrating the charging capability. The background is a brightly lit room with a large window showing green trees.

"Oh, and now you can charge accessories like the new AirPods with the wire. So, there's no wireless reverse charging right now, but that C-to-C cable that comes in the box, you can like plug it into the iPhone, plug it into the AirPods, and charge the AirPods up from the iPhone battery. So, that's pretty cool."

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The presenter, a dark-skinned man, points a finger at the camera, then makes a small, precise gesture with his thumb and forefinger, emphasizing his words. He wears a white t-shirt with a red, white, and black geometric design. The background is a brightly lit room with a large window showing green trees.

"But they did hold back on one very key thing, and they saved it for the iPhone 15 Pro. So, I'll get to that in a bit, but that's USB-C."

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Multiple iPhone 15 models are displayed vertically on thin metal stands in a brightly lit, spacious room with circular ceiling lights. The phones are in various colors, including white, blue, and light green, with their screens illuminated. The camera pans across the display, showing the phones from a low angle.

"Aside from that, really, it's a slightly updated phone. It's a little bit of a new display. You know, you get the Dynamic Island here, of course, on these baseline iPhones."

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A dark-skinned hand holds a pink iPhone 15, rotating it to show the back with two camera lenses, then flipping it to show the front display. The screen illuminates, showing the lock screen with time and widgets, then transitions to the home screen with app icons. The hand then taps through various apps, showcasing the Dynamic Island feature and the bright display. The background is a blurred crowd of people in a brightly lit room.

"It's a little bit of a new display. You know, you get the Dynamic Island here, of course, on these baseline iPhones. And there's also now a higher peak brightness, 2,000 nits now, which is twice as bright as the iPhone 14's."

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A close-up shot of the pink iPhone 15's dual camera system on its back. The lenses are dark and circular, set within a raised square module. The background is blurred white with faint bokeh circles of light. The camera slowly zooms in on the camera module.

"And there's a new camera. The primary camera is now a 48-megapixel chip, presumably the same one that was in the iPhone 14 Pro last year. And all the benefits that come with that."

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A dark-skinned hand holds a light green iPhone 15, rotating it to show the front display with app icons. The hand then rotates the phone to show the USB-C port at the bottom, then back to the front display, and then taps through various apps, showcasing the Dynamic Island feature. The background is a blurred crowd of people in a brightly lit, spacious room with circular ceiling lights.

"And then the rest of the phone really follows that same formula. They do this thing where the new baseline phone is basically last year's Pro phone repackaged. So, it inherits the same A16 Bionic chip from last year's Pro phone."

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The presenter, a dark-skinned man, gestures with his hands as he speaks, first pointing a finger, then making a peace sign with both hands, and finally spreading his hands wide. He wears a white t-shirt with a red, white, and black geometric design. The background is a brightly lit room with a large window showing green trees.

"The coolest feature of this phone, though, and, you know, it's also in the Pro phone, but I still think it's pretty solid, is the camera has this new next-generation portrait mode."

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A dark-skinned man holds a white iPhone 15, using its camera to take a photo. He rotates the phone from portrait to landscape orientation. On-screen graphics appear, first showing a woman posing in a park, then a woman sitting at a table with another woman blurred in the background, demonstrating the portrait mode feature and the ability to adjust depth later. The background is a blurred crowd of people in a brightly lit room.

"But basically, it automatically detects when there's a subject in a photo and captures all of the depth information needed to be able to turn it into a portrait mode photo later. So, you don't have to remember to switch it to portrait mode necessarily every time. And if you ever forget but want to add that blur later, you can do it with high-quality results. So, that's cool."

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A dark-skinned hand holds a light gray iPhone 15, scrolling through app icons and then through a photo gallery, showcasing the phone's smooth operation. The background is a blurred crowd of people in a brightly lit room.

"Aside from that, the rest of the phone, I mean, it's the same thing, right? Same sizes, guys, same ceramic shield, same dust and water resistance, and same starting prices. $799 for the 15 and $899 for the 15 Plus."

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The presenter, a dark-skinned man, clasps his hands together, then points a finger, indicating a transition to a new topic. He wears a white t-shirt with a red, white, and black geometric design. The background is a brightly lit room with a large window showing green trees.

"So, then there is the Pro phones, the iPhone 15 Pro and 15 Pro Max. There is some more new here."

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The presenter, a dark-skinned man, gestures with his hands as he speaks, first spreading them wide, then making a small, precise gesture with his thumb and forefinger, and finally pointing to different parts of his hand to represent different features. He wears a white t-shirt with a red, white, and black geometric design. The background is a brightly lit room with a large window showing green trees.

"A lot of it I'm actually want to, going to want to test just to see if it's actually what they say, but make sure you get subscribed to see those full reviews when they come out later this month and we can figure out if the phones are worth it. But basically, it's not bleeding-edge stuff that we've never seen before. It's just welcome stuff. And those are mostly in build quality, the chip inside, and the cameras."

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Two dark blue iPhone 15 Pro models lie side-by-side on a white surface, showcasing their backs with three camera lenses and the Apple logo. The camera slowly zooms in on the phones, highlighting their design.

"So, let's just start with the chip inside. First of all, it's a brand new chip that's called the A17 Pro. It's the first time they've used the word Pro in an iPhone chip."

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A man stands on a dark stage in front of a large black screen displaying the text "Apple A17 PRO" with a chip graphic. He gestures with his hands as he speaks, looking directly at the audience. The stage is dimly lit, with some subtle architectural lighting in the background.

"First of all, it's a brand new chip that's called the A17 Pro. It's the first time they've used the word Pro in an iPhone chip."

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Multiple iPhone 15 Pro models are displayed vertically on thin metal stands in a brightly lit, spacious room with circular ceiling lights. The phones are in various colors, including dark blue and white, with their screens illuminated. The camera pans across the display, showing the phones from a low angle.

"And it's their first 3-nanometer chip. So, it promises some performance and efficiency improvements as a result. I think they said it's like 10% faster high-performance cores and the neural engines up to twice as fast, bunch of other stuff."

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A close-up shot of a white iPhone 15 Pro's triple camera system on its back. The lenses are dark and circular, set within a raised square module. Another iPhone, out of focus, is in the background. The background is blurred white with faint bokeh circles of light.

"So, it promises some performance and efficiency improvements as a result. I think they said it's like 10% faster high-performance cores and the neural engines up to twice as fast, bunch of other stuff."

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Multiple iPhone 15 Pro models are displayed vertically on thin metal stands in a brightly lit, spacious room with circular ceiling lights. The phones are in various colors, including dark blue and white, with their screens illuminated. The camera pans across the display, showing the phones from a low angle.

"Not sure how much of this you'll actually notice in everyday use, but hey, future-proofing and headroom is never a bad thing. So, this is clearly a powerful chip."

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A dark-skinned hand places a dark blue iPhone 15 Pro onto a white surface, showcasing its illuminated screen with app icons. The camera zooms in slightly as the phone is placed down.

"So, this is clearly a powerful chip."

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A dark-skinned hand places a dark blue iPhone 15 Pro onto a white surface, showcasing its illuminated screen with app icons. The camera zooms in slightly as the phone is placed down. The scene transitions to a game demo on the iPhone screen, showing a dark, cavernous environment with glowing elements, then a bright, ornate archway.

"They showed a demo of a game with like faster ray tracing, which isn't new, but, you know, it helped to make their point."

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The presenter, a dark-skinned man, gestures with his hands as he speaks, first pointing a finger, then making a small, precise gesture with his thumb and forefinger, emphasizing his words. He wears a white t-shirt with a red, white, and black geometric design. The background is a brightly lit room with a large window showing green trees.

"But the interesting thing to note here with this chip is they mentioned the chip has a new USB 3 controller on it. Which means the 15 and 15 Plus don't have that. So, basically that means the Pro iPhone's USB-C port actually gets upgraded USB 3 speeds, the faster data transfer speeds, up to 10 gigabits per second."

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A dark-skinned hand holds a dark blue iPhone 15 Pro, rotating it to show the USB-C port at the bottom. The background is a blurred crowd of people in a brightly lit room.

"So, basically that means the Pro iPhone's USB-C port actually gets upgraded USB 3 speeds, the faster data transfer speeds, up to 10 gigabits per second."

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A dark-skinned hand holds a light gray iPhone 15, rotating it to show the USB-C port at the bottom. The background is a blurred crowd of people in a brightly lit room.

"But the base iPhones without that controller, they get USB-C, but they're going to be stuck at USB 2.0 speeds. Basically the same we've always had with Lightning, like 480 megabits per second."

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The presenter, a dark-skinned man, gestures with his hands as he speaks, first rubbing his chin thoughtfully, then spreading his hands wide, and finally making a small, precise gesture with his thumb and forefinger. He wears a white t-shirt with a red, white, and black geometric design. The background is a brightly lit room with a large window showing green trees.

"Now, this probably won't make a real difference to most people. Like I don't know when the last time you plugged your phone in was, but it's kind of a bummer that not all of the benefits of USB-C come to all of the phones. Uh, but for the Pro phones that are going to be shooting more ProRes video or ProRAW photos, I mean, it takes forever. If you've shot this stuff like I have, you know it takes forever to get those off of the phone because they're big files. So, I kind of wish they'd gone all the way. I wish they'd done Thunderbolt speeds, 20, 30, 40 megabits gigabits per second. Uh, but yeah, it's it's just going to be USB 3 on the Pro iPhones and USB 2 on the base iPhones."

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The presenter, a dark-skinned man, gestures with his hands as he speaks, first pointing a finger, then spreading his hands wide, and finally making a small, precise gesture with his thumb and forefinger. He wears a white t-shirt with a red, white, and black geometric design. The background is a brightly lit room with a large window showing green trees.

"You know what is disappointing, though? No fast charging. Like this, I talked about this on the podcast on Waveform. I'll try to link the episode below, but like switching to USB-C, you'd think, oh, this is a huge opportunity for Apple to like explain why they're doing it and we know why they're doing it. But, oh, why are you giving us this new port and all this, this big new USB-C deal and it's it's just the same 20 or so watt charging we've had for the iPhone for forever. No new fast charging. Kind of figured they would try to do that better, but yeah, this will still take an hour and a half, two hours to charge."

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Multiple iPhone 15 Pro models are displayed vertically on thin metal stands in a brightly lit, spacious room with circular ceiling lights. The phones are in various colors, including white and dark blue, with their screens illuminated. The camera pans across the display, showing the phones from a low angle. A blurred woman with blonde hair is visible in the foreground, looking at a phone.

"But anyway, the new design is what most people are fawning over at the moment with the Pros."

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A dark-skinned hand holds a dark blue iPhone 15 Pro, rotating it to show the side profile with the volume buttons and the new Action Button. The camera focuses on the brushed titanium rails, highlighting their texture. The background is a blurred white surface with another iPhone out of focus.

"So, they have switched the rails from that shiny fingerprinty stainless steel to this new grade 5 titanium alloy with a brushed texture. And it's nice. It is, first of all, it's noticeably lighter in the hand, which I love."

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A dark-skinned hand holds a dark blue iPhone 15 Pro, rotating it to show the back with three camera lenses, then the side profile, and finally the front display with app icons. The hand then rotates the phone again to show the side profile, emphasizing its thinness. The background is a blurred crowd of people in a brightly lit room.

"And it's nice. It is, first of all, it's noticeably lighter in the hand, which I love. And it seems like it's also enabled them to shrink the body of the Pro iPhones just a little bit. So, they have the same screen sizes, but the screens now get even closer to the edges. There's even thinner, slightly thinner bezels, and I actually do notice that."

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The presenter, a dark-skinned man, gestures with his hands as he speaks, first making a small, precise gesture with his thumb and forefinger, then picking up a dark blue iPhone 15 Pro and holding it up, emphasizing its build quality. He wears a white t-shirt with a red, white, and black geometric design. The background is a brightly lit room with a large window showing green trees.

"Now, a lot of people are also quoting stronger as one of the benefits too, but I really don't think this is going to make as much of a difference as people are thinking. Like, the Pro iPhones have had this stainless steel rails for a while now. I've dropped this phone, as you know, I don't have a case, on the ground. I've dented the stainless steel rails. It's fine. It doesn't break. It's not the stainless steel that breaks, it's the glass that breaks. And as far as we can tell, it's the same ceramic shield glass on the iPhone 15 Pro. That hasn't changed. So, if you drop it on the glass, you're still going to have not great results. Uh, but yeah, technically, sure, titanium is stronger."

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Multiple iPhone 15 Pro models are displayed vertically on thin metal stands in a brightly lit, spacious room with circular ceiling lights. The phones are in various colors, including black, white, and dark blue, with their screens illuminated. The camera pans across the display, showing the phones from a low angle.

"Either way, the new colors are black, white, and this new blue, which is really subtle. And then natural, which I guess it kind of embraces the raw titanium feel. Reminds me of Starlight if you're curious, kind of like this warm tone. Weirdly, I think I like it the most."

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The presenter, a dark-skinned man, gestures with his hands as he speaks, first making a small, precise gesture with his thumb and forefinger, then spreading his hands wide, and finally making a small, precise gesture with his thumb and forefinger. He wears a white t-shirt with a red, white, and black geometric design. The background is a brightly lit room with a large window showing green trees.

"But also something else Apple said on stage, and this, this was pretty quick, so you might not have even picked it up, but they did mention that they've redesigned a bit of the interior of the chassis to make the back glass more replaceable. So, it's a more repairable iPhone design. Technically, it's a small thing. It's just one little step, but it's a step in the right direction for a more repairable iPhone."

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The presenter, a dark-skinned man, gestures with his hands as he speaks, first making a small, precise gesture with his thumb and forefinger, then spreading his hands wide, and finally making a small, precise gesture with his thumb and forefinger. He wears a white t-shirt with a red, white, and black geometric design. The background is a brightly lit room with a large window showing green trees.

"But my favorite feature, and before we get to any of the cameras, I honestly think this is my favorite feature, is uh, the new Action Button. A new customizable button on the side of the iPhone. Just the Pro iPhones. So, it replaces the mute switch, which is pretty iconic, but it's in the same spot as the mute switch. And it it's actually customizable."

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A close-up shot of the dark blue iPhone 15 Pro's side profile, showing the new Action Button and volume buttons. The camera then shows a dark-skinned hand holding the iPhone, demonstrating how to press and hold the Action Button to toggle silent mode. The background is a blurred crowd of people in a brightly lit room.

"So, it's a pretty small button, basically about the same size as the switch. And by default, it actually behaves just like the mute switch did. So, you you actually hold it down to switch between muted or ringer on. Great."

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A dark-skinned hand holds a dark blue iPhone 15 Pro, navigating through the settings menu to customize the Action Button. The screen displays various options, including Silent Mode, Focus, Camera, Flashlight, Voice Memo, Magnifier, and Shortcut. The hand taps through the options, demonstrating the button's versatility. The background is a blurred crowd of people in a brightly lit room.

"But if you dive into the settings, there's actually a section for this Action Button, and it's actually really in-depth and super solid. It basically lets you go through and pick the function of the button. And there's way more here than I expected. So, you can keep the mute switch on, or you can have it switch you in and out of a certain Focus mode, like Do Not Disturb, or you could pick whichever other one you want. You could also have it auto-launch the camera and pick whichever camera mode it opens. You could also do flashlight turning on or opening up voice memos, or it can toggle the Magnifier. Or the last option actually is you can have it trigger a Siri shortcut, which as you know, can technically do almost anything, including basically launching any app on your phone."

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A dark-skinned hand holds a dark blue iPhone 15 Pro, navigating through the settings menu to customize the Action Button. The screen displays various options, including Shortcut, Camera, and the home screen. The hand taps through the options, demonstrating the button's versatility. The background is a blurred crowd of people in a brightly lit room.

"I think there may be a bit of a delay from the button press to the app opening, if I'm thinking about this correctly, like it's done in the past, but I'll have to test that for the full review. But theoretically, you can map this button to open whatever, your calendar app, your to-do list app, whatever app you want, which is totally not what I expected to be on the list of things you could do with a new button on the side of the iPhone."

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A close-up shot of the dark blue iPhone 15 Pro's side profile, showing the new Action Button and volume buttons. The background is a blurred, warm-toned interior with bokeh lights.

"But now you can."

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A close-up shot of a white iPhone 15 Pro's triple camera system on its back. The lenses are dark and circular, set within a raised square module. Another iPhone, out of focus, is in the background. The background is blurred white with faint bokeh circles of light. The camera slowly zooms in on the camera module.

"But then last but not least, the new cameras across the board here. There's a new larger 48-megapixel main sensor for the Pros, and improved ultrawide. And then the Pro Max, just the Pro Max, gets a new intricate folding 5x telephoto camera."

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A dark-skinned hand holds a dark blue iPhone 15 Pro, rotating it to show the back with three camera lenses, then the side profile, and finally the front display with app icons. The hand then rotates the phone again to show the side profile, emphasizing its thinness. The background is a blurred crowd of people in a brightly lit room.

"I'm guessing if I asked Apple, they would say that there was only enough room in the bigger Pro Max to fit this folding lens. I'll ask. We'll see what they say."

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A dark blue iPhone 15 Pro is displayed vertically on a thin metal stand in a brightly lit, spacious room with circular ceiling lights. Another iPhone, out of focus, is in the foreground. The camera focuses on the iPhone 15 Pro, highlighting its design.

"But until then, the regular 15 Pro is going to still have the 3x telephoto, the regular 3x from last year."

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The presenter, a dark-skinned man, gestures with his hands as he speaks, first making a small, precise gesture with his thumb and forefinger, then spreading his hands wide, and finally making a small, precise gesture with his thumb and forefinger. He wears a white t-shirt with a red, white, and black geometric design. The background is a brightly lit room with a large window showing green trees.

"And then we found this seemingly random feature. It's in the settings. They also talked about it in the keynote, but where you can change your default focal length to be either 1x or 1.2x or 1.5x for some reason."

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A dark-skinned hand holds a dark blue iPhone 15 Pro, navigating through the camera settings menu. The screen displays options for default focal lengths (24mm, 28mm, 35mm, 1x, 1.2x, 1.5x). The hand taps through the options, demonstrating how to set a default focal length. The background is a blurred crowd of people in a brightly lit room.

"So, it's buried in the middle of the camera settings, but you can tell it to default to one of these specific three focal lengths. So, if you switch back to the camera app, that 1x button is now always going to take you to the new focal length that you've chosen. And you can still get to 1x or whatever other focal length you want, but I just found that interesting. So, maybe if you somehow, if you're someone that takes 1.2x photos so often that you want a button to get there as fast as possible because it's the perfect focal length for you, then sure. Maybe if you're a photographer, you don't want to do the work of digital cropping, just hit that focal length every time. Sure."

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The presenter, a dark-skinned man, gestures with his hands as he speaks, first spreading them wide, then making a small, precise gesture with his thumb and forefinger, and finally spreading his hands wide again. He wears a white t-shirt with a red, white, and black geometric design. The background is a brightly lit room with a large window showing green trees.

"But there's been a lot of comments that at the end of the day, it feels like USB is literally the biggest headlining new feature of this year's new iPhone, which is crazy. I I can't quite get rid of my Lightning cable yet. There's still some accessories. There's like MagSafe Duo. There's AirPods Max. There's like the Magic Trackpad. There's a couple things that still are Lightning now. Maybe they'll switch that in the next couple months."

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The presenter, a dark-skinned man, gestures with his hands as he speaks, first making a small, precise gesture with his thumb and forefinger, then spreading his hands wide, and finally making a small, precise gesture with his thumb and forefinger. He wears a white t-shirt with a red, white, and black geometric design. The background is a brightly lit room with a large window showing green trees.

"But now I'm genuinely curious if there's going to be a bunch of new USB-C phone accessories because of the iPhone getting USB-C. Uh, similar to our sponsor of this video, Anker."

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A top-down shot of various Anker charging accessories laid out on a wooden surface. Products include a gray power bank with a built-in USB-C cable, a white wall charger, a white power strip with two outlets and USB-C ports, and braided USB-C cables. The camera zooms in on the power bank, showing its digital display and charging port. The presenter then holds up the power bank, pointing to its features. The camera then shows the power strip and wall charger. The background is a blurred, warm-toned interior.

"So, they've made a whole new lineup of products for the iPhone 15, headlined by the Anker Nano, which is like this little small but mighty USB-C power bank that can crank out 30 watts with the built-in USB-C cable. And you can also charge it up 30 watts. And if you hit that little button up at the top here, it'll actually show a literal percentage of how much battery you have left, or if you're plugged in, it'll show you a time, which counts down so you really know exactly how much of the 10,000 milliamps you have left. Plus there's some other stuff in the lineup. There's a wall charger, braided USB-C cables galore. So, feel free to learn more about Anker's new lineup at the link below. And shoutout to Anker for sponsoring this video."

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The presenter, a dark-skinned man, gestures with his hands as he speaks, first pointing a finger, then making a small, precise gesture with his thumb and forefinger, and finally spreading his hands wide. He wears a white t-shirt with a red, white, and black geometric design. The background is a brightly lit room with a large window showing green trees.

"So, iPhone 15 Pro will start at the same price as last year, which is $999, but they've bumped up iPhone 15 Pro Max sneakily, interestingly. It will start at $1199, but it's also the only one with the 5x camera and it's the only one that starts at 256 gigs. And last year, the price of the 256-gig Pro was the same, so you're kind of matching. It's just like getting rid of the $1100 phone for some reason."

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The presenter, a dark-skinned man, gestures with his hands as he speaks, first spreading them wide, then making a small, precise gesture with his thumb and forefinger, and finally waving goodbye. He wears a white t-shirt with a red, white, and black geometric design. The background is a brightly lit room with a large window showing green trees.

"Either way, let me know if you're interested in these new iPhones at all. You're either in camp don't care at all, or you're in camp like totally getting one of these, or maybe you're watching to see if the reviews prove that the new features are worth it. Let me know what you're thinking. Comment section's always open. Thanks for watching. And I'll catch you in the next one. Get subscribed. See you later. Peace."

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