iPhone 15 Pro Max review: titanium changes everything in hand

Twenty grams. That is the difference between the stainless 14 Pro Max and the titanium 15 Pro Max in a back pocket on a long day. After two weeks I noticed my wrist hurting less.

Build Grade 5 titanium, brushed finish, slightly rounded edges. The phone now feels like a tool you hold for a reason rather than a slab you tolerate.

A17 Pro The first 3nm chip from TSMC. Geekbench numbers do not matter. What matters is that on-device LLM inference (Apple Intelligence later) became plausible.

USB-C Finally. USB 3.0 speeds, 480Mbps over the included cable, 10Gbps with a separate USB-C cable. Photographers can now offload ProRAW directly to a portable SSD.

Camera 48MP main with second-generation sensor-shift OIS. Telephoto bumped to 5x periscope. Detail at 5x is genuinely better than the 14 Pro Max could manage at 3x with crop.

What I miss from the 14 Pro Max Nothing.

Price £1,199 for 256GB. It is silly money for a phone, and it is the right phone if you can stomach silly.

For my long-term thinking on the 16 line: [iPhone 16 Pro Max review](/blog/iphone-16-pro-max-review).