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The 16 Pro has a bigger display.

Each model now has a different display size.

You can choose between 6.1", 6.3", 6.7" and 6.9"

I would be fine with the Pro models getting larger screens if they would shrink the standard phone. I'm still trying to survive with my 12 mini for as long as possible until the battery dies. I tried a standard iPhone 15 for two weeks last year and I wasn't happy with the larger size and returned it.

The mini was a great form factor, fits in more pockets comfortably and the whole screen is within reach of my thumb when using the phone one-handed.

More people want "all of the above" to be larger than want the smaller phone. It does leave those that prefer the truly small phones in a tough spot though, but they are a tiny percentage of buyers and only a fraction of that percentage actually dislike the other options vs would just use the mini when it's available https://www.macrumors.com/2022/04/21/iphone-13-mini-unpopula...

That said I wonder if they'll slip in a new mini model every once in a great while to give that group of users an option.

this part is really frustrating. I want to upgrade from my 13 Pro and have 120Hz but 6.7" is huge

They've trimmed the bezels enough that the 13 Pro and 16 Pro are exactly the same width despite the bigger screen, and the 16 is only a few mm taller.

https://www.phonearena.com/phones/size/Apple-iPhone-13-Pro,A...

It's already almost impossible to reach the top of the screen. "Only a few mm taller" is nothing but worse.

It's not the phone size, its the reach for my fingers. I can't reach the top left corner with my thumb on these larger screens and UI/UX people keep putting the hamburger for the navigation in that spot.

I'm sure you're aware of this, but bringing it up in case you aren't. On newer Face ID models, you can swipe down on the bottom of the screen (the little grey bar) and it'll toggle the reachability feature so the top of the screen comes into the middle of the display. Basically shoving everything down.

I understand it's not ideal, but I find it a valuable feature when I must operate one handed and sometimes struggle with the same issue.

I've found that feature really difficult to trigger reliably without hitting buttons on the bottom of the screen if they're there. Maybe it's just because I'm on a 13 mini, and before that a 12 mini. But if an app has a bottom navigation bar, I've found it absolutely impossible to trigger reachability without also hitting the bottom navigation.

I did also set up an accessibility feature where you can map a handful of actions to a double or triple tap on the back of the glass, and I mapped double-tap to trigger Reachability. But it's not super fast and overall a bit of a downgrade from the double capacitive TouchID tap on older models.

The new Pro is 6.3", not 6.7" (that's the outgoing Pro Max).

If it helps, the Pro is only increasing by a few mm in height and depth, not width.

[1]: iPhone 13 Pro specs: https://www.apple.com/by/iphone-13-pro/specs/

[2]: iPhone 16 Pro specs: https://www.apple.com/ca/iphone-16-pro/specs/

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