6 things that disappoint about the iPhone 17 Pro. Sorry, but this is not worth buying a phone for

The new iPhone has launched, and Apple has once again recorded a presentation with features that are impossible to resist.

Maybe. You just have to listen to someone who just upgraded to a new iPhone and was very disappointed.

I recently traded in an iPhone 13 Pro for an iPhone 16 Pro. I really wanted some of the seemingly cool flagship features that Apple has been promoting throughout its development.

But I was incredibly disappointed in these showcase features after the purchase or didn’t use them at all.

Below I give a list and warn that for the sake of any possibilities, I do not advise you to dream of an iPhone 17 Pro. I guarantee you will play and forget.

1. 48 MP resolution in ultra-wide-angle camera.

On the left is iPhone 14 Pro Max, on the right is iPhone 16 Pro Max, ultra-wide-angle camera, 13x frame. The sensors on the cameras are the same size, and it shows. The picture on the right is just a little softer

The new macro cameras have also made things worse, since the closest point of view has become further away

The iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 17 Pro have an ultra-wide-angle camera with a resolution of 48 MP. The detail when shooting in RAW mode has really increased, but I have never had the need to use them yet.

The exception was an article with a comparison to check this very detail.

There is even a minus. The pixels are now smaller, so photo quality is slightly worse compared to the iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro.

No matter how iOS combines pixels in 12 MP mode, you can’t argue with physics.

The ultra-wide-angle camera takes radial views, without detail. It would be better if she expanded the sensors, it would be more useful.

2.Shooting video in professional quality ProRes and LOG video.

I really wanted an iPhone 15 Pro or iPhone 16 Pro for the ability to shoot video in LOG.

This is a format with almost no compression that allows you to get that minimally natural picture that bloggers praise. and which Apple itself achieves when it films its presentations.

When I released the iPhone 15 Pro, I had just made a lot of videos for our channel, and the feature was on point.

When I bought the iPhone 16 Pro, I even specifically bought a model with 512 GB memory for it.

The quality of shooting is indeed better, but the size of the files and the complexity of color correction make the feature useless for almost everyone

I just switched to the new one from the iPhone 13 Pro after we finished this project, and In ordinary life, it makes no sense for me to search in this format at all. Their videos weigh a gigabyte per minute, and they also need to do color grading.

The same thing now applies to the iPhone 17 Pro. Only on it does Apple allow you to shoot video in opengate format using the Final Cut Pro Camera application, that is, on the entire sensor in 4:3 format.

Why not unlock the feature using examples of models is a question. But I’m sure that I would have tinkered with my form once and scored later.

3. Fast USB-C 3 port with 10Gbps throughput.

Starting with iPhone 15 Pro, the USB-C port supports data transfer speeds of up to 10 Gbps, up from 480 Mbps on all iPhones (including iPhone Air).

Haven’t used it ANY TIME.

Apple came around and ten years later made AirDrop so reliable that I haven’t had to send data cables yet.

4. Thin screen bezels

iPhone 17 Pro and iPhone 17 Pro Max are larger and without the larger previous models

The biggest scam in design in recent years.

I’m already the author that on the iPhone 16 Pro Max and iPhone 17 Pro Max the frames are much thinner than in regular frames. In the iPhone Air, which is strange, they are even thicker than in the 6.3-inch model.

So this year Apple also increased the thickness of the metal frame, so smartphones became wider again.

The apogee of compactness was the iPhone 15 Pro, and after that we moved into some kind of gigantism, which we are unlikely to reverse.

5. Supposedly a large battery, which has increased again.

After upgrading to the iPhone 16 Pro, I no longer trust Apple’s “all-day battery” philosophy at all. I don’t recommend it to you either.

Although the iPhone 16 Pro has 16% more battery life than the iPhone 13 Pro three years ago, it lasts the same as the old model’s 82% battery life.

The problem is that the A18 Pro runs at higher frequencies (4.05 MHz vs. 2.65 MHz), the screen is larger, brighter and Always On, and the cameras consume more processing resources.

Now my friend’s iPhone 16 Pro Max is draining in less than a day. Until iOS 26 it lasts at least a day and a half

Here’s another example: a friend upgraded to an iPhone 16 Pro Max and was happy with 12 hours of screen time until he upgraded to iOS 26. Now after 8 hours the phone’s screen is gone.

But the fresh iPhone 17 Pro Max looks like another leap up. Next year it will be the same, screenshot it.

I’m talking about this hopeless dream I wrote about the long working hours three years ago, nothing has changed since then.

6. Camera Capture Touch Button

This year, even Apple itself was embarrassed to move this button as something revolutionary.

Although the idea and implementation are great from a technical point of view, Camera Capture, as an example, is annoying because it constantly gets in the way.

When I take selfies in a group, I often switch to the main camera for maximum quality. At this moment the finger Always Accidentally pressing this button and swiping turns on shooting modes, switching to ultra-wide-angle, telephoto or front-facing module.

And although swipes can be disabled, you cannot remove the video pause using this key. Sometimes I shoot something on the main camera, put the phone on and at that moment I turn off the shooting by pressing it. Then you’ll have to reshoot it.

It’s a shame that such a cool idea turned out to be useless. But if through quiet intoxication 3D touch from the iPhone 11 Pro were burning, the departure of swipes from Camera Capture in the iPhone 18 or iPhone 19 will be forgotten with relief.

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These are the problems.

One thing pleases me. Judging by the low demand for the iPhone 17 in Russia, Apple was able to fool fewer people this year.