Should I upgrade my iPhone 16 Pro?
The Apple iPhone 16 Pro went on sale on 20 September 2024. It has a 6.3-inch display, a weight of 199 g, the A18 Pro chip, a 48 MP main camera and 128 GB of storage to start. Apple claims up to 27 hours of video playback. Apple publishes no end date for its security updates. Every figure in the Apple iPhone 16 Pro specifications below links the page it came from and the date it was read.
2 years oldNo published support end dateRead
Is it still supported?
Apple publishes no end date, and this site does not guess one. The support card on the iPhone 16 Pro page says what is known and where it came from.endoflife.date — iPhone, retrieved 2026-08-19
What the iPhone 18 Pro changes
The newest Apple phone in this line is the iPhone 18 Pro at £1,199, released 18 September 2026. Judged row by row against our published thresholds; the full table is at iPhone 18 Pro vs iPhone 16 Pro.
On the makers’ published figures, the iPhone 18 Pro wins on peak brightness (3,000 nits against 2,000 nits), storage (base) (256 GB against 128 GB), claimed video playback (34 h against 27 h) and fast charging (60 W against 20 W). 2 gaps are borderline, differences most people would not notice: RAM (12 GB against 8 GB, both from GSMArena) for the iPhone 18 Pro and battery capacity (4,056 mAh against 3,582 mAh, both from GSMArena) for the iPhone 18 Pro. The difference in weight is below the threshold you would notice. Both state the same display size, refresh rate, typical brightness, HDR peak brightness and wireless charging. The other 37 rows have no threshold or no direction to judge by, so nobody wins them.
- Peak brightness: 2,000 nits → 3,000 nits
- Storage (base): 128 GB → 256 GB
- Claimed video playback: 27 h → 34 h
- Fast charging: 20 W → 60 W
- RAM: 8 GB → 12 GB borderline; marginal — most people won’t notice.
- Battery capacity: 3,582 mAh → 4,056 mAh borderline; marginal — most people won’t notice.
Other makers at the price
Phones from other makers released within a year of the iPhone 18 Pro and priced within a quarter of its £1,199, nearest price first, each judged the same way against your iPhone 16 Pro — or, where that pair is not one this site indexes, against the iPhone 18 Pro.
What yours is worth
Our reading of the figures
Apple publishes no end date for the iPhone 16 Pro’s security updates, so support is not a reason to move until it is.
The iPhone 18 Pro clears our noticeable threshold on 4 rows: peak brightness, storage (base), claimed video playback, fast charging. 2 more gaps are borderline, which most people would not notice. Nothing goes backwards.
At £1,199 new, less the £413 CeX was paying for a grade A iPhone 16 Pro on 2025-11-25, the move costs about £786.
Every sentence above is built from the figures on this page by a rule, not written for this phone: a support date, the rows that clear a published threshold, a price and a trade-in. There is no score and no recommendation. The methodology page has the thresholds and where they come from. Every phone’s version of this page is listed at All upgrade questions.