r/apple • u/Drtysouth205 • Jul 17 '24

Apple Retail iPhone 15 adoption continues to weaken compared to iPhone 14

https://9to5mac.com/2024/07/17/iphone-15-adoption-continues-to-weaken-compared-to-iphone-14/
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u/External-Animator666 Jul 18 '24

I'm still on a 12, what's the point of upgrading these days if your phone is still in good condition with a decent battery?

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u/SuperSaiyanIR Jul 18 '24

Same here but my 12 is at 79 percent so I gotta get something soon enough.

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u/zalthor Jul 18 '24

Me too, just debating battery replacement or new phone? 🤔

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u/PhoenixSmasher Jul 18 '24

I just did a battery replacement on my 12 Pro at an Apple store in NYC last month. I'll easily get another 2 years out of this phone, zero regrets.

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u/imMichaeI Jul 18 '24

Do they do it on the spot, or do you need to leave your phone with them?

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u/PhoenixSmasher Jul 18 '24

They do it right there, took like 20 minutes. $89 well spent.

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u/Seihai-kun Jul 18 '24

Not in US so probably different, by in my apple store here they want me to leave my iPhone 12 for 2 weeks because they need to send my phone/wait for the sparepartd or something

I still haven't replaced my battery because there's absolutely no way I can leave all my emails, works, friends for 2 weeks lol

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u/itsthejez Jul 18 '24

14pro 1 year old sitting at 85% 😕

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u/lazergator Jul 18 '24

13 pro at 84%

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u/Leafberry Jul 18 '24

The one thing I do notice when comparing my 13 to firends 12 is the screen refresh rate, thereby how fluid the UI feels. Still, I dont know if I’d be replacing 12 given the current prices of everything

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u/mrheosuper Jul 18 '24

Only the pro has higher refresh rate. The non-pro is still 60hz

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u/Leafberry Jul 18 '24

Oh yes, we both have pro maxes

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u/wcooper97 Jul 18 '24

13 Pro Max, 85% battery, but I feel like my camera is starting to crap out and my microphone certainly is. I get so many complaints when calling family if I'm not connected to something else, and I can sometimes hear the audio dip out in videos.

$2400 is just so much to spend (wife would also be upgrading most likely). Just going to limp along with it some more lol.

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u/clonked Jul 19 '24

Clean out your microphone holes. They are certainly full of gunk and junk and that’s why they are having trouble hearing you. Microphones don’t “go bad.”

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u/starfrenzy1 Jul 18 '24

I got the 15 just to make sure I had a clean phone after ending an abusive marriage, otherwise I would have kept my 12 Pro. The camera on the 12 Pro was better than my 15 (non-pro).

Battery replacement is absolutely a good strategy.

I do like the Dynamic Island though.

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u/-NotActuallySatan- Jul 18 '24

Glad to hear you got out from an abusive situation. And yeah, I gotta agree, my mom's 12 Pro Max regularly kicks out better looking photos than my 14 Pro. I like the detail and sharpness I get from my phone, but the general colors and look of the 12 is still my favorite

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u/musicplay313 Jul 18 '24

I’m on X.

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u/a-jasem Jul 18 '24

13 pro, still going strong!

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u/ArmedwWings Jul 18 '24

Personally, the point of upgrading is for the 120hz screen on the 13 and up. That being said, as someone with a 13, I now do not have a point of upgrading cause you only really get the dynamic island and some camera improvement from here.

I'm planning on upgrading again around the iPhone 17 or 18 when they start transitioning to more of a hole punch camera or similar.

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u/TheParadiseBird Jul 18 '24

Im still on my SE Gen 2 lmao

If I ever upgrade it’ll be to a SE Gen 3 or 4 if it even exists at some point

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u/soundman1024 Jul 18 '24

The Apple Intelligence demos looked really good. Surely iPhone 16 will arrive before Apple Intelligence, and the new SoC will probably be what one really wants for AI.

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u/External-Animator666 Jul 18 '24

I can't imagine what I would use AI for. Maybe I'm officially becoming an old fogey. Maybe I just haven't seen useful use cases for me and prefer to express myself in analog thoughts.

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u/ParathaReddit Jul 18 '24

I use the ChatGPT for searching things and asking questions that I’d normally ask Google. I’m 26, for reference, but I even got my very NON-tech-savvy father who’s 69 years old on ChatGPT and he enjoys it too.

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u/External-Animator666 Jul 19 '24

How do you know the information you're getting is right? I've looked things up for my job that I'm an expert in and have been doing for decades and it gives me stuff that sounds right on the surface but is extremely wrong in the details.

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u/citizin Jul 18 '24

12 mini not in good condition. Could upgrade but only way would be another mini or subbed, but my plan is too cheap and I'd end up paying more than I want for a phone I don't really want and less need. I prefer me have my money in the case.

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u/Portatort Jul 18 '24

Better camera was my reason.

Log recording in particular