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Video: iPhone 17 Pro Long Term Review

It's been four months since Apple launched the new iPhone 17 models, and MacRumors' videographer Dan Barbera has an updated review with his thoughts on the iPhone 17 Pro after getting to spend a good chunk of time with it.

Dan covers how the new aluminum frame has held up, whether the updated display has been as resistant to scratching as promised, the usefulness of the upgraded front-facing camera, and what he thinks of the performance with the new vapor chamber cooling system.

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Top Rated Comments

8 weeks ago
Have had a silver Pro since day 1 minus some logistic delays. Best phone I've ever had. No complaints.
Score: 12 Votes (Like | Disagree)
8 weeks ago
i am very unhappy with the camera
Score: 12 Votes (Like | Disagree)
carrrrrlos Avatar
8 weeks ago
In what world is 4 months a long term review? How about just titling it '4 month review'?
Score: 8 Votes (Like | Disagree)
kppolich Avatar
8 weeks ago
Wish it came in a mini....thing is just too big.
Score: 7 Votes (Like | Disagree)
TSE Avatar
8 weeks ago
I do agree with your co-host that it's ugly relatively to other iPhones. Peak iPhone design was iPhone 5S/SE.
Score: 7 Votes (Like | Disagree)
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7 weeks ago

The camera is generally better, but the 8x interpolated 'zoom' is useless.
Why so?

It seems to be very nice to capture distant things. I can see lots of uses for this crop zoom when hiking in nature, in the mountains. It is a crop but on the other hand there are no devices on the market capable of reaching similar performance, except Pixels and Galaxy phones. Unfortunately point-and-shoots are dead, those that exist cost about as much as a new iPhone 17 Pro, and they don’t even have basic water resistance and have only one purpose: shoot.


This example is 200mm/8x. I shot it in a moving car in passenger’s seat. Quite impressive work of both image stabilization and in terms of color reproduction. Level of detail is about the same as on the main camera of older iPhones like 11 or 12. Unlike Pixels, it doesn’t use any AI upscale so it is all coming from the sensor

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Score: 6 Votes (Like | Disagree)