These look almost identical to the iPhone 17 Pro models, albeit slightly smaller. The iPhone 18 Pro is 6.3 inches and the iPhone 18 Pro Max is 6.9 inches. They come in black, silver, glacier, and burgundy color options.
They come with Apple’s new A20 Pro chips, which have been repackaged into a silicone casing that can connect directly to the new redesigned vapor chamber, a design flourish that aids in keeping the components from overheating and helps the phone last longer. Wireless charging is even faster, able to juice the phone up to 50 percent battery life in 15 minutes.
The iPhone 18 Pro battery is capable of up to 36 hours of video playback per charge. The 18 Pro Max gets around 45 hours of video playback.
The 18 Pro phones are also getting juiced up with a new and improved Siri AI. There is an all new Siri AI app on the iPhone. Siri AI is rolling out as a beta in English now, and will be available in French, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, and Spanish in October.
Adjustable Aperture
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The iPhone 18 models also get a number of big improvements to their cameras. The biggest: a variable aperture on the iPhone 18 Pro’s 48-megapixel main camera. Users can dial in their preferred aperture, which adjusts mechanically in the lens. This opens up new possibilities for shooting in different light environments, as well as adjusting the depth of field for adding real—not digital—bokeh effects to photos.
Apple is also touting improved photography and video capture controls, called Pro Controls, that let you change settings like white balance, aperture, and shutter speed. So if you’re a camera nerd, you have new software and hardware tools to play with.
Apple is also introducing Apple Reference Image, a watermarking tech that maintains an image the way it was originally shot. Apple refers to it as something close to “a digital photo negative” that you can reference if you need to prove a photo’s provenance.
