The iPhone 15 Pro is here, with a titanium body and a brand-new button on the side. Here’s how it stacks up on paper against its predecessor, the iPhone 14 Pro.
The iPhone 15 Pro is here, with a titanium body and a brand-new button on the side. Here’s how it stacks up on paper against its predecessor, the iPhone 14 Pro.
Apple’s annual update to the iPhone lineup has taken place, with the iPhone 15 Pro replacing the iPhone 14 Pro as the top-of-the-line model in the range.
For 2023, Apple’s latest top-spec release includes a new A17 Pro chip, a titanium design, and a whole new button.
This is how it compares against the iPhone 14 Pro, and whether you should consider the iPhone 15 Pro as your next upgrade.
iPhone 15 Pro vs iPhone 14 Pro — SpecificationsiPhone 15 Pro vs iPhone 14 Pro — Dimensions and design
The iPhone 14 Pro is purposefully designed to be the same size as the iPhone 14, with its main differences revolving around specifications and extra features over the standard model.
At 5.78 inches tall by 2.82 inches wide and 0.31 inches thick, it’s a form factor that works well in the hand. With a weight of 6.07 ounces, it’s also not a hefty weight to carry around.
The iPhone 15 Pro is a little shorter at 5.77 inches and narrower at 2.78 inches, though a little thicker at 0.32 inches. It’s also lighter than the iPhone 14 Pro at 6.60 ounces.
Apple’s design for the iPhone 14 Pro reused its well-worn aesthetic of flat edging with rounded corners, using a stainless steel enclosure with a glass back and a Ceramic Shield-protected glass panel covering the display.
This time around, Apple is using Grade 5 Titanium for its frame, which introduces strength while also reducing weight. It also helped Apple shave off a little of the size of the device without sacrificing the display, reducing the bezels further.
iPhone 15 Pro vs iPhone 14 Pro — Displays
The iPhone 14 Pro sports a 6.1-inch all-screen OLED display, which Apple refers to as a Super Retina XDR display. The resolution of the iPhone 14 Pro’s screen is 2,556 by 1,179 pixels, which gives it a pixel density of 460 pixels per inch.
Despite the body size change, the iPhone 15 Pro’s display has the same specifications as the iPhone 14 Pro.
That OLED screen for both generations enables a contrast ratio of 2 million to one, as well as fantastic brightness. Typical max brightness rests at 1,000 nits, though it can go up to 1,600 nits at a peak for HDR content, or up to 2,000 nits of peak brightness if you’re outdoors.
Apple employs an always-on screen for the iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro, one that will display a muted standby screen when sleeping, with an extremely low refresh rate to preserve battery life. It’s also a ProMotion display, with adaptive refresh rates that go up to 120Hz, depending on the type of content viewed on the screen.
The iPhone 14 Pro’s screen introduced Dynamic Island, a feature that replaces the infamous notch with an element that also offers extra interactive elements and compact notifications for background apps. That too returns for the iPhone 15 Pro.
Other standard features of the iPhone 14 Pro display that make it into the 2023 model include Wide Color (P3) support, True Tone, HDR support, and a fingerprint-resistant oleophobic coating.
iPhone 15 Pro vs iPhone 14 Pro — Cameras
On the back of the iPhone 14 Pro are three cameras, starting with a 48-megapixel Main camera with an f/1.78 aperture, a second-gen sensor-shift optical image stabilization system, and a seven-element lens.
That’s accompanied by a 12-megapixel Ultra-Wide camera with an f/2.2 aperture six-element lens, and a 120-degree field of view. The third is the 12MP 3x Telephoto, complete with an f/2.8 aperture, optical image stabilization, and a six-element lens.
With the use of such a large main sensor, Apple was able to take advantage of the crop to create a virtual 12MP 2x Telephoto camera, which benefits from all of the features of the Main camera. Overall, the iPhone 14 Pro has a 2x optical zoom out and a 3x optical zoom in, with digital zoom reaching up to 15x.
For the iPhone 15 Pro, there are small changes, but not a massive amount. The same three cameras are in use, with the same apertures, specifications, and most of the same features.
For 2023, the iPhone 15 Pro does up the default Main camera shot to 24 megapixels, which is a nice change. You do not get the tetraprism addition to the Telephoto camera that the iPhone 15 Pro Max has, since it is exclusive to just that model.
