iPhone 15 Released: What's New?

On September 12, 2023, Apple debuted its new iPhone 15 lineup. Apple has a vision all the time - create a device that is incredibly powerful, remarkably easy to use, and beautifully designed for its users. iPhone 15 lineup released not long ago also embodies Apple's vision. From its design to the chip used, what's new? How much is it? Is it worth buying? This post provides you with a comprehensive understanding of the new Apple iPhone 15 lineup.

Part 1: What's New in iPhone 15?

iPhone 15 features are summarized as below. Let's take a closer look at what's new on iPhone 15.

Design and Display

The new contoured edge on the aerospace-grade aluminum enclosure creates a nicer hand feeling than ever, and also lighter. The premium Titanium material makes iPhone 15 Pro regarded as the lightest one among the whole Pro Series. It also has the thinnest border ever on iPhone. The advanced material used in the shell of iPhone 15 effectively extends the service life of the device, which is a progress in environmental protection.

iPhone 15 uses OLED technology to make a Super Retina XDR display, which comes with thinner borders, rich color, and supports Dolby Vision. In addition, 1600 nits HDR brightness on peak brings an even brighter screen, HDR photos and videos looking better than ever. It greatly improves users' experience on the display.

USB-C

iPhone 15 adopts USB-C, making iPhone in line with other smartphones. This change can speed up its charging and data transfer. With USB 3 cable, transfer speed is up to 20 times faster than USB 2, the highest transfer speed ever.

Dynamic Island

iPhone 15 models all feature the Dynamic Island, which has only been available for iPhone 14 Pro users in the past.

Dynamic Island is a super intuitive and interactive feature fluidly expanded on the top of the screen, interacting important alerts and Live Activities much easier, like controlling music, checking direction on map, delivery process, flight info etc.

Action Button

Ring/Silent Switch can mute iPhone sounds in a quick and convenient way. In iPhone 15 Pro, it is changed to a customizable Action button. It's not just a Ring/Silent Switch anymore, and users can also choose a set of actions and easily switch, like starting voice memos, launching camera, shortcuts and more.

Camera

iPhone camera has always been one of the bullet points for Apple. In this update, 48MP Main camera is introduced to iPhone 15, which means you can maximize resolution with a 48MP photo. In other words, more fine details of the objects can be captured. Apple also applied computational photography to the Main camera to achieve super high-resolution images. iPhone 15 Pro has an even larger sensor. 5x optical zoom at 120 mm focal length is introduced in iPhone 15 Pro, allowing users to shoot more high-quality photos and videos.

Moreover, with iPhone 15, users can take portraits without manually switching to the Portrait mode, as it can automatically detect whether there is a person in the frame and turn it into portraits later in your Photos app.

Chip

A16 Bionic is built into iPhone 15 and Plus, which was introduced on iPhone 14 Pro. And with the 5-core GPU, iPhone 15 and Plus has 50% more memory bandwidth than A15 Bionic. Meanwhile, the new generation of Apple silicon - A17 PRO, is used on iPhone 15 Pro. The Pro-class GPU highly improves performance and efficiency. By the upgrade of the chip, games can be run in a more fluent way and are supported to display incredible high quality graphics.

Part 2: iPhone 15 Lineup Tech Specs

Models	iPhone 15	iPhone 15 Plus	iPhone 15 Pro	iPhone 15 Pro Max
Colors	Pink, Yellow, Green, Blue, Black		Black Titanium, White Titanium, Blue Titanium, Natural Titanium
Price	$799/$899/$1099	$899/$999/$1199	$999/$1099/$1299/$1499	$1199/$1399/$1599
Sizes	6.1''	6.7''	6.1''	6.7''
Weight	6.02 ounces	7.09 ounces	6.60 ounces	7.81 ounces
Display	Super Retina XDR display 6.1‑inch (diagonal) all‑screen OLED display 2556‑by‑1179-pixel resolution at 460 ppi	Super Retina XDR display 6.7‑inch (diagonal) all‑screen OLED display 2796‑by‑1290-pixel resolution at 460 ppi	Super Retina XDR display 6.1‑inch (diagonal) all‑screen OLED display 2556‑by‑1179-pixel resolution at 460 ppi	Super Retina XDR display 6.7‑inch (diagonal) all‑screen OLED display 2796‑by‑1290-pixel resolution at 460 ppi
Battery	Up to 20 hours of video playback	Up to 26 hours of video playback	Up to 23 hours of video playback	Up to 29 hours of video playback
Front Camera	12-megapixel
Rear Camera	48MP (Main), 12MP (ultrawide)		48MP (Main), 12MP (ultrawide)
CPU	Apple A16 Bionic		Apple A17 Pro
Storage	128GB, 256GB, 512GB		128GB, 256GB, 512GB, 1TB	256GB, 512GB, 1TB
5G	5G Enabled

Part 3: Conclusion

Finally, Apple iPhone 15 has made some expected adjustments in the charging port, shell materials, chip, camera, and other aspects have no big differences compared to iPhone 14. If you want to buy a new iPhone, iPhone 15 Pro is recommended, as its appearance and the new A17 Pro can bring you an incredible experience. In addition, if your iPhone runs into system problems or bugs on iOS17, such as black screen, stagnant screen, unresponsive screen, etc, you can use TunesKit iOS System Recovery to fix it. Hopefully you can get what you want from this post.