Is it worth upgrading?

iPhone 16 Pro and Pro Max are Apple’s newest smartphones. If compared to iPhone 13 Pro, what changes have there been after 3 years? The article will compare and send detailed information to readers.

Screen

iPhone 16 Pro and 16 Pro Max have screens of 6.3 and 6.9 inches, respectively, larger than the 6.1 and 6.7 inch screens on iPhone 13 Pro and 13 Pro Max.

Screen brightness is also higher when viewing HDR content and using outdoors. In addition, the 16 Pro and Pro Max are also equipped with Dynamic Island instead of “rabbit ears”, along with the Always On Display feature.

Size, weight, design

The design of the iPhone 16 Pro remains almost identical to its predecessors, except for the size and new Camera Control button/sensor.

Apple uses titanium material for iPhone 16 Pro and 16 Pro Max like the 15 Pro and 15 Pro Max series. For those who switch from 13 Pro, the titanium material will be a relatively obvious upgrade as it is lighter to hold and feels sturdier and sturdier than steel.

A18 Pro performance compared to A15 Bionic

A18 Pro is Apple’s latest processor, equipped on iPhone 16 Pro and 16 Pro Max. Although the A18 Pro has outstanding power, that does not mean that the A15 Bionic is “out of date”. In fact, iPhone 13 Pro and Pro Max still use very smoothly, fully meeting basic daily needs.

If you still compare the performance of these two processors, here are some statistics from Apple:

• A18 Pro CPU is up to 15% faster than A17 Pro
• A18 Pro GPU is up to 20% faster than A17 Pro
• The A18 Pro CPU uses up to 20% less power than the A17 Pro
• Ray tracing is 2 times faster than A17 Pro

The A18 Pro CPU is about 45% faster than the A15 Bionic in Geekbench scores for single-core performance and about 40% faster in multi-core performance.

iPhone 16 Pro battery life compared to 13 Pro

In terms of battery life, iPhone 16 Pro has significantly improved compared to iPhone 13 Pro.

Video playback duration:

• iPhone 13 Pro: up to 22 hours
• iPhone 13 Pro Max: up to 28 hours
• iPhone 16 Pro: up to 27 hours
• iPhone 16 Pro Max: up to 33 hours

Music playback duration:

• iPhone 13 Pro: up to 75 hours
• iPhone 13 Pro Max: up to 95 hours
• iPhone 16 Pro: up to 85 hours
• iPhone 16 Pro Max: up to 105 hours

Camera

Both iPhone 16 Pro and Pro Max devices have a 48MP main camera, 48MP ultra-wide-angle camera, 12MP telephoto camera with 5x optical zoom. In addition, the iPhone 16 series is also equipped with a completely new Camera Control button/sensor, bringing an interesting experience to users.

This is a notable leap compared to the 12MP main lens and the rest of the 13 Pro/Max camera system.

Record videos

iPhone 16 Pro and Pro Max upgrade video recording capabilities with 4K Dolby Vision/HDR recording mode up to 120fps.

Users can also customize 120fps video recording at 1080p resolution and ProRes with 16 Pro/Pro Max.

Selfie camera

Apple’s TrueDepth front camera is upgraded on iPhone 16 Pro and Pro Max with new features.

Connectivity

iPhone 13 Pro/Pro Max still uses the traditional Lightning charging port, while iPhone 16 Pro/Pro Max is equipped with a USB-C port for transmission speeds of up to 10 Gbps.

In addition, iPhone 16 Pro/Pro max also has a number of other upgrades such as WiFi 7 support, MagSafe support for power up to 25W,…

Reasons to buy iPhone 16 Pro/Max

• Larger, higher-resolution screen with ProMotion and Dynamic Island.

• Supports Apple Intelligence and has a new Camera Control button/sensor.

• The powerful camera cluster meets the needs of both photography and video recording extremely well.
• The chipset is among the fastest and most powerful currently.

• New, durable, more beautiful titanium frame material with very thin edges.

• Convenient USB-C charging port, 10Gbps speed, supports WiFi 7.

However, which phone model to use depends entirely on the user’s needs. Even though the iPhone 13 series is 3 years old, it is still really good at the present time.