iPhone 15 Pro Review- The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly!
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00:00 Have you ever listened to a car reviewer
00:02 describe the latest generation Porsche 911?
00:05 Like this is a car that's looked more or less the same
00:08 for the past 50 years with slight evolutions
00:12 with each new generation.
00:13 And literally every time you watch or read a review,
00:16 they always say every single time,
00:18 oh, it's so refined.
00:19 Oh, this is an engineering masterpiece
00:21 that's been perfected over generations.
00:24 It's a formula that's been developed
00:25 in the same direction for years.
00:27 I actually, as a kid, I used to actively dislike Porsches
00:31 because I just, I knew they were expensive,
00:32 but I thought they're all so boring.
00:34 They all look like the same thing.
00:35 Why would you get one of those
00:36 when you could get a way more exciting Ferrari
00:40 or McLaren instead?
00:42 But as I've gotten older,
00:44 I can appreciate the Porsche formula a little more.
00:49 I don't love it or anything.
00:50 I wouldn't say I love it, but I can appreciate it more.
00:54 Does that make sense?
00:56 I hope that makes sense.
00:57 (upbeat music)
01:27 This is the iPhone 15 Pro.
01:32 Not a lot of changes.
01:35 So, okay, I think people gotta get this thought
01:39 out of their head that you've got to upgrade every year
01:42 to the newest phone.
01:43 Like I realize most of us already know this,
01:44 but for some reason people are still stuck on this thing
01:46 where they say, oh, last year's phone
01:48 is barely different from this year's phone.
01:51 It's not worth upgrading.
01:52 But like, that's not new.
01:55 The Zenfone 10 I just reviewed is just a refinement
01:58 of the Zenfone 9.
01:59 Like the bleeding edge ROG phone has looked the same
02:01 for three years now.
02:02 The Pixel is finding its stride with design.
02:04 But what we're really looking for is for them
02:06 to fix anything that's wrong or bad,
02:10 and then just find ways, clever ways, good,
02:12 interesting ways to just get a little bit better every year
02:15 so that over a long time, over a bunch of improvements,
02:19 it adds up to a bigger, more significant change.
02:23 So that's what's happening here
02:24 with this iPhone 15 Pro.
02:26 I've been using it for about two weeks now.
02:27 They've made some improvements,
02:29 but now we're starting to also see some possible problems,
02:32 some new issues that have risen up.
02:35 So let's talk about it.
02:37 So there's basically four new features they've added here.
02:39 I'm gonna go over some of the more fundamental
02:41 and existential stuff in the regular iPhone 15 review.
02:45 So definitely make sure you're subscribed
02:46 to see that when it comes out.
02:48 But for the Pro, it's time to deep dive
02:49 on the stuff that's unique to this one,
02:51 the professional stuff.
02:54 That being the build, the chip, the cameras,
02:58 and the action button.
03:00 So easiest place to start
03:01 is the way they've built this phone.
03:02 So Apple made an update to the build
03:04 and the materials of the iPhone this year.
03:07 They've softened the corners a little bit.
03:09 It's clearly still a boxy design,
03:10 but now instead of a completely flat glass at the front,
03:13 there's this gentle little curve just at the very edges.
03:16 I think that'll maybe make screen protectors
03:18 slightly more intricate,
03:19 but I think it has a nice look to it.
03:20 And then the screen sizes are exactly the same,
03:22 but now the bezels are actually a tiny bit slimmer
03:25 all the way around.
03:26 So technically the phone is like
03:27 one millimeter smaller diagonally.
03:30 And the rails have famously switched
03:31 from that shiny stainless steel
03:34 to a lighter coated and brushed titanium.
03:37 The result, very slightly better, I think.
03:41 It's kind of funny, I've always associated a heavy phone
03:44 with like expensive feeling, you know?
03:48 Like the ceramic phones are like extra heavy,
03:49 they feel like substance.
03:51 But I understand why people want it to be lighter.
03:54 And so this phone is actually noticeably lighter
03:56 than the previous Pro.
03:57 It's 10% on paper, but it feels like more than 10%.
04:00 And then there's a new set of colors too.
04:01 So I'm sticking with it.
04:02 This new natural titanium is the best color.
04:05 This is the first year I am not ordering
04:07 a dark or black iPhone.
04:09 They still look good, don't get me wrong,
04:11 but they get all kinds of fingerprints on them like crazy.
04:14 And also my worries about the light colored scratches,
04:18 if you go deep enough, were all confirmed by Zach,
04:21 JerryRigEverything in his video, cutting the thing up.
04:23 So because I'm on team no case,
04:26 I'm going with the all gray phone.
04:27 I think it looks dope, so I'm going with that.
04:29 I think basically the idea is if you have
04:31 a perfectly working phone, there's no world
04:33 where you should upgrade to this one
04:34 just for the titanium build,
04:35 or just for the slightly thinner bezels.
04:37 But you have to appreciate,
04:38 put this up next to an iPhone 11,
04:41 then yeah, you can see the differences compounding over time
04:44 just like if you sat in a 992 generation 911 right now
04:47 after sitting in a 997 generation car.
04:50 But the real highlight of this build here,
04:51 let's be honest, is there's a new port at the bottom,
04:55 that USB type C, which makes a big difference
04:59 to people like me who have other gadgets in their life,
05:01 computers, headphones, mouse, keyboard.
05:04 I just bring one charger, it works with everything.
05:07 I have already had this rite of passage moment
05:10 that everyone who gets this phone is gonna have
05:12 where you have an existing lightning cable
05:13 and you try to plug it in and then you're like,
05:15 oh, right, new cable.
05:17 But now I've gotten used to it.
05:18 But the thing is, I could have sworn
05:21 Apple would do more with this port.
05:23 Like, okay, we know that they're basically
05:26 forced into doing this by the EU,
05:27 so shout out to the EU for that.
05:29 Now we have a USB iPhone, but like the only pitch is just,
05:32 hey, one cable for everything.
05:34 That's it, Apple, really?
05:35 So like with 30 pin to lightning all those years ago,
05:38 the benefit was obvious.
05:39 It's just so much smaller of a port.
05:42 So that let them fit more stuff in the phone,
05:44 plus it's reversible now.
05:45 With this USB type C, it's like, okay,
05:47 it was already small, it was already reversible.
05:50 Charging speed did not improve at all.
05:51 It's still 25 Watts.
05:53 There's no extra like desktop mode,
05:55 plug it into a monitor and get,
05:57 there's no decks or anything like that, right?
05:58 It's just one cable for everything.
06:01 Okay, fine, sure, welcome to the club.
06:05 You know, iPhone users can now take advantage
06:07 of the EU in USB-C.
06:09 I talked about the handshake it does
06:11 with plugging directly into other phones
06:13 and reverse charging them at four and a half Watts
06:16 in the unboxing video.
06:17 That's pretty neat.
06:18 You can also plug in other things,
06:19 plug in a keyboard and type with it,
06:21 plug in a monitor, it'll mirror your screen
06:23 at up to 4K 60.
06:25 And the pro phone now supports USB 3.0 data transfer speeds.
06:29 So you can get that pro res footage off the phone
06:31 noticeably faster.
06:33 And you can actually, for the first time,
06:35 shoot video directly onto an external drive.
06:37 Now there's some talk about the cable that comes in the box.
06:40 Remember that nice high quality braided USB-C cable
06:43 that comes in the box,
06:44 but it's only USB 2.0 transfer speeds.
06:47 It's a slow cable.
06:48 So if you have a pro phone,
06:49 you need to get a faster separate cable for it.
06:51 That seemed weird to people, but it's not.
06:54 That's very normal.
06:55 Most smartphones come with just a USB-C cable
06:57 just to charge.
06:59 It's a charging cable.
07:00 If you wanted a data cable,
07:01 you'd have to buy a thicker, more robust cable
07:04 that looks the same, but is a data cable.
07:07 It's kind of confusing and annoying actually.
07:10 Welcome to the world of USB-C, my friends.
07:14 It's good to have you.
07:14 But that is a good segue to the main enabler,
07:17 the new powerhouse chip inside this phone
07:19 with a new name, the A17 Pro.
07:22 So the base iPhone 15s got last year's A16 Bionic
07:26 from the 14 Pro.
07:27 And so here's this new, more powerful chip
07:30 in the highest end phones.
07:31 And it's not the A17 Bionic.
07:32 This is the first one with the Pro name, A17 Pro.
07:35 And this thing goes kind of crazy on paper.
07:37 This is their first three nanometer chip.
07:40 Actually the first three nanometer chip in any phone
07:41 that we'll probably see for at least another year or two.
07:45 I ran some benchmarks.
07:46 It's literally approaching M1 chip levels
07:49 of synthetic benchmark scores.
07:51 And compared to last year,
07:52 it's 10 to 20% more powerful on both the CPU and the GPU,
07:56 which is very respectable.
07:58 But more power is like more horsepower in a car.
08:02 It's only really useful or noticeable
08:05 if it lets you do more things with it.
08:08 I'm gonna live in this analogy a bit more for a minute.
08:09 But like the last generation Porsche 911 Turbo S,
08:13 it was already so ballistic fast
08:16 that you never approached that limit
08:18 anywhere on public streets
08:19 until you get to the highest end of performance on the track.
08:22 And the highest end iPhone is the same way.
08:24 Like the Pro iPhone's been great at just surfing Instagram
08:28 and texting and doing all the normal web browsing,
08:31 basic stuff you do on a phone.
08:33 And so the only place you'd really notice
08:35 the extra performance is, well, we got a gaming demo.
08:39 Apple showed these wild demos
08:41 on the new iPhone at the keynote.
08:43 And just a disclaimer, I'm not much of a phone gamer,
08:46 so I'll defer the commentary on this to Dave2D.
08:49 You can go watch his video link below.
08:51 But they literally launched exclusive games on the iPhone
08:55 that are like Resident Evil Village and Assassin's Creed,
08:59 but not on cut down mobile versions.
09:01 These are literally the same versions with the same assets
09:04 and same textures and everything
09:07 from the PlayStation version.
09:08 'Cause it literally is the PlayStation version.
09:10 That's impressive.
09:11 Plus, you know, performance headroom is never a bad thing.
09:14 But I think also for me and for a lot of other people,
09:16 the more impactful things
09:18 that you'll actually notice about this new chip
09:20 are in the dedicated parts of it
09:21 that are for specific tasks.
09:23 Like the new image signal processor
09:25 lets you take really, really fast,
09:27 lag-free photos constantly.
09:30 The new neural engine recognizes portrait mode subjects
09:33 like people's faces and dogs and cats automatically
09:37 and lets you go back in time
09:39 and set a regular photo to a portrait mode photo.
09:41 The USB 3 controller
09:43 that enables faster data transfer speeds
09:45 is also on the A17 Pro.
09:46 All of that is coming from the new chip.
09:48 But what I'm more concerned with at the moment
09:51 is battery life.
09:53 Okay, so actually it's kind of two main issues
09:57 that have been popping up
09:58 that you kind of have to try to figure out
09:59 are they isolated issues
10:01 or are these real problems with the phone?
10:03 And those are battery life and overheating issues.
10:06 And to be honest,
10:07 part of the reason this review took like longer than normal
10:09 is I've been really trying to dig into the battery
10:11 and figure out what's going on here.
10:13 So objectively speaking,
10:14 these phones have slightly bigger batteries than last year
10:18 and a new three nanometer chip.
10:19 So in a controlled environment, they should do better.
10:22 And they do, they literally last longer
10:24 on like simple benchmark stuff.
10:26 So that's good news.
10:28 Now, when I test a phone like normal,
10:30 I pretty much, I kind of go by feel.
10:32 I always have some mix of good days,
10:35 some average days, and then some bad days
10:37 where I can sort of figure out what's draining it,
10:39 what its weaknesses are,
10:40 and then I can come to a conclusion from that.
10:42 So now here we are, I get a couple of days in,
10:44 I get a couple of weeks in,
10:46 and I've had a good amount of average days.
10:48 I've had a couple of those bad draining days,
10:51 but I also haven't had any of those amazing days
10:55 where I get like nine hours of screen on time.
10:57 I just haven't had any yet.
10:59 And then we also started to see some of those headlines
11:00 about battery life potentially being worse.
11:03 And there's also some overheating issues
11:05 popping up on Twitter or X.
11:07 And some people were asking if mine has had any issues.
11:09 So here's the weird answer.
11:11 Yes, but not when I would expect.
11:13 I was, two days ago,
11:14 literally I was just at a golf tournament.
11:16 It was in Florida.
11:17 It was like a hundred degree real feel
11:19 of something crazy like that.
11:20 And I'm outside with my phone at max brightness
11:22 with GPS going all day out in the sun.
11:25 And it was fine, no problem, no overheating issues.
11:27 But then a couple hours later,
11:28 I'm on the airplane with my phone in airplane mode.
11:31 And I've got just like music playing on Bluetooth
11:33 with Spotify and like scrolling through Instagram.
11:36 And for like five minutes,
11:38 the phone just gets really hot
11:39 and just blast through like 5% battery.
11:41 And then it's fine again afterwards.
11:42 And I'm like, there almost seems to be no rhyme or reason
11:46 why it does this randomly once in a while.
11:48 So my best theory is that the A17 Pro is just,
11:51 it's a more powerful chip.
11:52 And so therefore is able to drain power
11:54 more quickly than before in high intensity settings
11:57 like gaming, et cetera.
11:58 And there's also been some issues attributed
12:00 to iOS 17 bugs, like we're already on 17.0.2.
12:04 I imagine there's some more updates coming to both iOS
12:07 and a bunch of apps.
12:09 But by the end of this,
12:09 I kind of feel like I'm expecting battery life
12:11 to basically even out to be the same as last year,
12:14 which is a boring answer, but that's kind of what I expect.
12:16 Now, we can talk all we want about what the word Pro
12:20 actually means in a smartphone.
12:22 But with iPhones, that is mostly meant cameras.
12:26 And it turns out there is a lot going on
12:28 with these relatively similar looking cameras
12:32 on these new Pro phones, both in hardware and software.
12:34 So you're looking at a new bigger 48 megapixel main camera.
12:37 There's also an improved ultra wide
12:39 with a closer up macro capability
12:41 and a whole telephoto situation
12:44 that we'll get to in a minute.
12:45 But then with software,
12:46 there is this whole new intricate image processing
12:50 pipeline happening.
12:52 So you know how most smartphones,
12:54 a lot of them today have like 48 megapixel cameras
12:57 and they all been down to 12 megapixels.
12:59 They give you 12 megapixel shots.
13:01 You know, previous iPhones did this.
13:03 This new one for those who might've missed it
13:05 is actually by default spitting out 24 megapixel images
13:10 instead of 12.
13:12 And it's only about one and a half times the file size.
13:13 So this new process,
13:15 which is the same actually across the board
13:16 for iPhone 15s and 15 Pros,
13:19 is it's taking a 48 megapixel full sensor shot
13:23 for detail information
13:25 and also taking a full sensor 12 megapixel shot,
13:29 which is the quad binning for light information and noise.
13:33 And then it's using the neural net to combine them
13:37 and do a sort of a detail transfer
13:39 to get you this hybrid 24 megapixel image.
13:42 It's very complicated, very clever.
13:46 And the end result is slightly better.
13:51 It's really right in line with what I've been saying.
13:53 So if you just generally look at photos
13:56 shot on this camera, it's an iPhone photo.
13:59 Like they look pretty great.
14:00 They're awesome with dynamic range
14:02 and sharpness across the board.
14:04 I still prefer and shoot in the rich contrast profile
14:06 most of the time.
14:07 But yeah, mostly the iPhone is one of the best cameras
14:10 at just pointing and shooting in full auto,
14:12 just getting results that look good.
14:14 Even if it doesn't look the most like real life,
14:17 you know, it's doing the classic relighting
14:20 and tone mapping and everything we're used to
14:22 from all this smart HDR.
14:24 It's all here and a lot of people like it and it looks good.
14:28 The improved macro mode is also really good.
14:30 And with this natural fall off with the primary camera
14:33 without even needing portrait mode,
14:34 you can get some blurred backgrounds.
14:36 It's awesome.
14:37 Autofocus is also really, really fast,
14:39 especially whenever there's a face in the scene.
14:41 This thing loves seeing faces.
14:43 And the benefit of the bigger sensor
14:45 shows itself at night too,
14:46 with even longer handheld captures.
14:49 It's not magic, it's just physics.
14:51 But you know, does the 24 megapixel
14:54 make a difference over the 12 megapixel?
14:57 Well, zoomed out, absolutely not.
14:59 They look basically the same.
15:01 So you got to zoom in and even at 50% zoom,
15:03 you still can't really tell.
15:05 It's not until you zoom all the way in that you can,
15:08 okay, you can see a difference.
15:10 You can start to notice a difference
15:11 in fine detail and contrast.
15:13 The 15 Pro is definitely, when you're pixel peeping,
15:16 more contrasty and sharp
15:18 when you're all the way zoomed in versus last year.
15:21 But that's just when you've zoomed all the way in.
15:24 And by the way, once you get past 2X zoom,
15:26 it's back to kicking out regular 12 megapixel images.
15:29 So again, it's a small, small year over year improvement
15:33 with that tiny amount of pixel peeping detail,
15:37 but over a longer distance, over a bunch of generations,
15:41 that's the type of thing that adds up.
15:42 They even on the Pro phones did a couple of presets
15:45 from the 1X lens.
15:46 There's a 24 millimeter all the way zoomed out,
15:49 then a 28 millimeter, a little bit tighter,
15:51 and a 35 millimeter that all have their own
15:54 dedicated image processing pipeline presets
15:57 to maximize detail into these basically
16:00 super res zoom focal lengths
16:02 that you can digitally zoom between.
16:04 I wouldn't exactly call it having extra lenses on the phone,
16:07 but 1.5X zoom on last year's phone
16:10 versus 1.5X zoom on this year's phone,
16:13 slight difference, but there is a difference.
16:16 Honestly, the most pro things about these new phones though
16:19 is definitely their video cameras.
16:21 So I'm just gonna nerd out about these for a second
16:24 because the iPhone's video capabilities,
16:26 I've talked about this so much,
16:28 but there are still so clearly far out
16:30 in front of the rest of the smartphone world.
16:31 It doesn't even shoot 8K,
16:33 which is it's totally capable of with the 48 megapixels.
16:36 I wish they would let us,
16:37 but even just that 4K 30 in full auto,
16:41 the detail, the auto-focus, the slight depth,
16:44 the dynamic range, the stabilization,
16:47 they're all world-class.
16:48 I mean, if you wanna just look at test footage,
16:50 the entire electric Rivian delivery van review I did
16:53 on the auto-focus channel was shot on iPhone 15 Pro,
16:56 audio included.
16:57 I'll drop the link below
16:58 if you wanna watch that whole thing.
16:59 Also shout out to the new AV1 codec support on the chip.
17:02 That's gonna play nice with YouTube.
17:04 But this year you can also shoot log,
17:07 literally a pro camera feature.
17:10 Now it is annoyingly buried several layers deep
17:14 in the separate settings app,
17:16 which is really not very pro.
17:18 But if you find the time to go switch over there
17:20 and get into log,
17:22 the iPhone will shoot with way more information,
17:24 that classic flat log look, dynamic range, everything.
17:28 And you don't have to deal with
17:29 whatever Apple was gonna do with oversharpening
17:31 and saturation and processing.
17:33 Apple has its own transformation lot
17:35 to turn it into SDR or HDR,
17:37 or you can go in and fully grade it yourself
17:39 to really get the most out of the iPhone's video.
17:41 And it looks really, like really, really good.
17:45 So the one thing that I'm gonna say to,
17:47 you know, just 'cause I'm pixel peeping at this point,
17:49 is the haloing from point light sources.
17:53 You know, it's one of the hardest challenges
17:54 with these tiny optics.
17:55 So I get why they haven't just fixed it yet,
17:57 but like, it's pretty bad.
17:59 Anytime there's any sort of point lights,
18:01 especially with video,
18:02 despite whatever new lens coding they're doing,
18:04 it's pretty dramatic.
18:05 And it seems like it's the worst on the iPhone
18:07 of any other phone.
18:08 So it's there, gonna point it out again.
18:10 But hey, if that's the biggest downside of iPhone video,
18:13 I'll definitely take it.
18:14 And then iPhone 15 Pro Max,
18:16 the big one is the only one that comes
18:18 with the new 5X larger telephoto lens.
18:21 I would bet my life that that's gonna come down
18:23 into the smaller 16 Pro next year, whatever,
18:26 but it's only in the big one this time.
18:28 But yeah, it does let you get a little further
18:29 with max zoom from 15X to 25X.
18:33 It's nice if you do a lot of zoom photos and videos,
18:37 which is a very specific crowd.
18:38 There's some people that do that, you know,
18:39 concert goers, things like that.
18:41 But there are just very few people who should buy one
18:44 just for this lens,
18:45 because it also means you have to have a bigger phone.
18:47 And it also happens to mean that your 4X photos,
18:50 just before you get to 5X,
18:52 will actually be worse on this phone.
18:54 But yeah, it's not nearly as capable
18:55 as some of the longer telephoto periscope lens.
18:57 I mean, Samsung has a 10X optical lens
19:00 that blows this one out the water in terms of reach.
19:03 I think Apple's main advantage really is just stabilization.
19:06 Like they finally do that zoom in preview window
19:09 on the corner of the viewfinder,
19:10 and they overstabilize the frame
19:12 so you can zoom all the way in
19:13 and get a shot in super creeper mode.
19:15 It's great.
19:16 But I'm just gonna shamelessly borrow a line from Mr. Mobile
19:19 because he said it as well as anyone possibly could.
19:22 And he's right,
19:23 which is just that so much of the differences
19:25 between these cameras, this one, the last iPhone,
19:29 the Samsungs, the Pixels of the world,
19:30 so much of the difference between them is software
19:33 that is hardly even consistent anymore.
19:36 So if you are looking for like a hard verdict
19:39 on like iPhone 15 Pro side-by-side
19:41 versus Samsung versus Pixel or Oppo, whatever else,
19:46 you kind of just have to make it up after a while.
19:48 Like, yeah, there are gonna be certain instances
19:50 like exact zoom focal lengths
19:52 where one is sharper than the other.
19:53 But honestly, at the end of the day,
19:55 a lot of it is gonna be taste.
19:56 And so, yeah, you just kind of have to figure out
19:58 which one you like as far as image quality
20:01 and especially UI,
20:02 just the actual way you shoot photos and videos.
20:04 Which reminds me, I do wanna mention
20:06 this RAW Max button is hilarious.
20:09 This is a button to take your full res
20:13 48 megapixel Pro RAW photos,
20:15 but it just says RAW Max, okay?
20:17 And if you wanna have 48 megapixel JPEG,
20:20 you have to jump back into the settings app,
20:22 switch it over, then bounce back.
20:24 And now the button says JPEG Max, which is also hilarious.
20:29 Last thing I gotta say though,
20:30 this new Pro phone has an action button
20:33 on this new Pro iPhone only
20:35 because only Pros need customization.
20:37 Look, I kind of love the action button,
20:42 but I also need to realize that it's kind of
20:44 either overrated or underrated depending on who you are.
20:47 Like on one hand, it's literally a customizable button.
20:50 Like who even saw this coming?
20:52 It replaces the least used button
20:54 that was on previous iPhones
20:56 because your phone should always be on mute anyway.
20:58 And so then you can map this action button
21:01 to basically anything you want.
21:03 You can keep it as a mute switch
21:05 and it has the same strong haptics
21:07 so you can tell if it's muted or unmuted
21:08 in your pocket without looking.
21:10 But there's also a bunch of other cool functions
21:12 you can pick from,
21:13 from launching your camera to a voice recorder,
21:17 to just literally any app on your phone you want
21:19 through a Siri shortcut.
21:21 Your favorite YouTube channel right now
21:22 is probably making a tutorial on the best Siri shortcuts
21:25 to map to the action button,
21:28 from launching apps to the specific things inside of apps,
21:32 from unlocking your car
21:34 to not just launching my favorite task manager app,
21:36 but launching a new task inside of my task manager app.
21:40 It just lets me, it's great.
21:43 It's awesome.
21:44 Honestly, I hope it gets copied
21:45 even though a bunch of phones were doing this years ago
21:47 and then they stopped.
21:48 I hope they bring it back now
21:49 in response to how great this is.
21:51 But on the other hand,
21:52 I do kind of feel like for a lot of people,
21:56 this is gonna be one of those things that they play with
21:57 for like three or four days
21:59 and then just kind of forget about it
22:01 and never use it again.
22:02 And I mostly think that's because it's not super reachable.
22:05 Like it's not a one handable button
22:08 where your fingers usually rest for everyone,
22:10 especially on the Pro Max.
22:12 It's way up there in the corner above the volume buttons.
22:15 It could be a cool shutter button for the camera,
22:17 but the volume buttons already do that.
22:19 So yeah, I feel like you might as well just end up
22:20 setting it back to a mute switch
22:22 and forgetting about it after a few weeks.
22:24 But I guess that's fine too.
22:26 It's one of those things that you'll just figure out
22:27 which user you are after you use it for a while.
22:30 Kind of like I've been using the new,
22:32 that Eight Sleep mattress cover that I was talking about.
22:34 I've been using it for about three months now.
22:36 This is the pod cover that goes on your mattress
22:39 that either warms you up or cools you down,
22:41 helps you sleep.
22:42 Like now that I've used it for a while,
22:44 I've understood, like I was a skeptic at first,
22:46 but honestly, this is one of those things
22:48 where I go to a hotel bed and I have a harder time sleeping,
22:51 which it used to be the other way around,
22:53 but I just sleep so much better in the Eight Sleep bed
22:57 'cause it's cooled down to let you get to sleep early
22:59 and then warms up in the morning to help you wake up.
23:02 And it's become really clear that temperature
23:03 is one of the most important factors when it comes to sleep.
23:06 And it's become real obvious to me
23:08 that falling asleep faster, getting better quality sleep,
23:11 and then being able to depend on it
23:12 is something I wouldn't trade for anything.
23:14 It's just, it took me some time to learn that.
23:17 Plus there's an app that shows me all my info
23:20 about my sleep every night
23:21 and it lets me adjust the autopilot if I want.
23:23 If your partner sleeps at a different side on the same bed,
23:26 they can adjust the temperature in the app too.
23:28 It's great.
23:29 I'll leave a link to it below.
23:30 And since they're a great sponsor,
23:31 they're actually giving you guys $200 off the pod cover
23:35 if you use code MKBHD at eightsleep.com/MKBHD.
23:40 But anyway, what's the verdict?
23:41 What's the verdict with the new Pro iPhone of 2023?
23:46 Is one of those things where like,
23:48 I have conversations with friends
23:50 and I always end up having to try to condense it all
23:53 and summarize it into like one sentence.
23:55 And the truth is like, it's the same phone as last year
23:57 with USB, a little bit of a faster chip,
24:00 a little bit of a brighter screen,
24:01 little bit of thinner bezels,
24:03 and like, I don't know, better cameras.
24:06 That's kind of it.
24:07 So you have to decide how much of that is important to you.
24:09 Are any of those things important to you?
24:12 Honestly, USB might be the most important thing
24:16 about the new iPhone, despite what Apple was hoping.
24:19 Welcome to the club, my friends.
24:23 Thanks for watching.
24:24 Catch you guys in the next one.
24:26 Peace.
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