iPhone 16 Plus
MSRP $899.00
“The iPhone 16 Plus does everything the excellent, smaller, and cheaper iPhone 16 does, just with a bigger screen.”
Pros
- Fantastic hardware and colors
- Big, bright screen
- Fast, reliable, and feature-packed software
- Fun camera and Camera Control
- Long battery life
Cons
- Only a 60Hz refresh rate
- No always-on screen
We questioned in our iPhone 16 review whether you really need one of the Pro models this year. So where does that leave the iPhone 16 Plus? It’s almost exactly the same as the iPhone 16 apart from a few obvious differences. So, does that make it even better or unnecessary and ultimately unwanted? Or is it simply the iPhone to buy this year if you want a big screen? I’ve found out, and it turns out the answer is much more complicated than I expected.
iPhone 16 Plus: specs
When the iPhone 16 Plus arrived for me to review, I was already a week into using the iPhone 16 Pro Max and had come from an iPhone 15 Pro Max. I was fully used to handling Apple’s biggest smartphones. It’s larger than the iPhone 16 by some distance due to the 6.7-inch screen, but the weight is still sensible at 199 grams, and the phone is only 6mm wider, so it never really feels like too much of a handful. However, it’s still not a small phone, and anyone who generally dislikes big phones won’t enjoy holding it.
