When Apple changed the iPhone 13 mini in 2022, it determined to supply a cellphone with the identical giant show discovered on the iPhone 14 Professional Max and included what was, on the time, the most important battery ever discovered inside an iPhone. And it referred to as the gadget the iPhone 14 Plus bringing again the “Plus” branding that Apple used on its larger-screened 5.5-inch telephones with the iPhone 6, iPhone 6s, iPhone 7, and iPhone 8 strains. For final yr’s iPhone 15 Plus, it was a case of rinse and repeat though Apple gave the mannequin a barely smaller battery than the iPhone 15 Professional Max.
This yr, modifications to the display screen sizes on the iPhone 16 line will change issues up. The iPhone 16 Professional fashions are getting a small enhance in display screen dimension that may take the OLED panel on the iPhone 16 Professional Max to six.9 inches. The iPhone 16 Professional is predicted to characteristic a 6.3-inch display screen. The non-Professional iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Plus will proceed to sport 6.1-inch and 6.7-inch shows respectively. So this yr, for the primary time, the iPhone Plus mannequin could have a smaller display screen than the one used on the iPhone Professional Max mannequin.
The iPhone 14 Plus suffered from sluggish demand
However extra modifications are coming. Based on a tweet from accurate leaker Ross Young, CEO of Show Provide Chain Consultants (DSCC), Apple is planning to scale back the scale of the iPhone 17 Plus. Whereas he did not give a exact display screen dimension for the iPhone 17 Plus, he did say that it’s going to “sit in between” the scale of the iPhone 17/iPhone 17 Professional and the iPhone 17 Professional Max.
Regardless of having each a big battery and a big show, demand for the iPhone 14 Plus was weaker than anticipated. Early information appeared to point that the iPhone 15 Plus was doing higher than its predecessor, however Apple would possibly nonetheless really feel the necessity to additional differentiate the iPhone 17 Plus from the iPhone 17 Professional Max.
Present variations between the iPhone 15 Plus and iPhone 15 Professional Max embody:
- Completely different utility processors (4nm A16 Bionic on 15 Plus, 3nm A17 Professional on 15 Professional Max).
- 60Hz Refresh fee on 15 Plus, variable refresh fee as much as 120Hz on 15 Professional Max.
- No Telescopic digital camera on 15 Plus, Tetraprism periscope digital camera on 15 Professional Max delivering as much as 5x optical zoom.
- 6GB of LPDDR5 RAM on 15 Plus, 8GB of LPDDR5 RAM on 15 Professional Max.
- 128GB minimal storage with 512GB most storage on 15 Plus, 256GB minimal storage with 1TB most storage on 15 Professional Max.
The iPhone 16 sequence is predicted to be launched this coming September whereas the iPhone 17 line will most likely be unveiled in September 2025. Absolutely we’ll hear extra concerning the iPhone 17 Plus display screen dimension as we get nearer to the introduction of the sequence.
