Display
With Dynamic Island made available to the entire lineup, both the Pro models and the baseline iPhone 15 models get the same 6.1-inch and 6.7-inch display size option. All four models also get ceramic shield protection. The iPhone 15 Pro models and iPhone 15 models also get the same peak brightness of 2000 nits.
Dynamic Island on the iPhone 15
Design
The 15 Pro Series is heavier and thicker than the baseline iPhone 15 despite featuring a new aerospace-grade titanium frame. The iPhone 15 continues with an aluminium frame, but gets colour infused back glass. It essentially means the back cover on the iPhone 15 models will no longer be glossy but textured in matte finish.
Another key design change among the two lines is the mute switch. While the vanilla iPhone 15 models come with the standard mute switch, the iPhone 15 Pro line gets a new customisable Action button. Apple said the new action button will offer more options to the user than just switching between silent and ringing mode.
Connectivity
The USB-C connector is standard across iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Pro line. However, the 15 Pro models get the USB 3.0 version with transfer speeds of up to 10GBps.
Performance
Apple says that the new A17 Pro processor has 19 billion transistors on a 3nm architecture, compared to 16 billion transistors on the A16 Bionic (based on 4nm fabrication). Additional transistors on a small package improves performance and power efficiency. The A17 Pro chip also has an additional GPU (graphic processing unit) cores than the A16 Bionic chip, totalling up to 6 cores for improved gaming performance on the Pro models. The A17 Pro supports hardware-accelerated ray tracing and MetalFX upscaling, which are said to improve graphics experience on the iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max.
Camera
The iPhone 15 Pro models get a triple-camera setup on the rear, featuring a 48-megapixel main camera with sensor-shift optical image stabilisation. The big change, however, comes with the 12MP telephoto camera with 3x optical zoom (77mm lens equivalent) on the Pro and 5x (120mm lens equivalent) on the bigger Pro Max. The Pros will also have a 12MP ultra-wide-angle sensor.
The Pro variants will also get spatial video capturing capabilities in coming months. Apple said the phone would use the multi-camera setup to take videos with depth. The spatial videos captured with the iPhone Pros will support the Apple Vision Pro headset, which Apple said will launch next year.
Triple Camera setup on the iPhone 15 Pro
The iPhone 15 line comes with a dual-camera setup. It gets a 48MP main camera sensor with 2X in-sensor zoom. As for the camera features, Apple has enabled support for Auto-portrait in Photo mode with an option to adjust depth. The main camera in the baseline models are capable of shooting High-Res photos at a 24MP resolution.
Battery
Although there are no official details available around the battery sizes and capacity, Apple said that the iPhone 15 Pro has up to 23 hours of video playback capacity, up to 20 hours of video streaming and about 75 hours of audio playback capacity.
iPhone 15 features