An Abridged iPhone 18 Pro Review

Brevity comes easy this year iPhone 18 Pro. A few weeks after this article’s publication, a much more exciting iPhone will go on sale: iPhone Duo, the hotly anticipated foldable iPhone that leaves room for many more words and photographs. But its flagship sibling, iPhone 18 Pro, deserves at least a few notes. There’s not much to discuss here, but the little there is makes iPhone 18 Pro the default iPhone to buy heading into the busy holiday season. I’m keeping this review short — much shorter than my annual iPhone reviews typically are — because, again, there’s just so little ground to cover. Frequent readers know my usual spiel about how each iPhone generation is a refinement and perfection of the last, and this year’s model is no different, honing the tried-and-true iPhone design. It reduces the size of the now four-year-old Dynamic Island, adds new Photographic Styles, introduces a variable-aperture main camera, and improves battery life and performance. It’s easy to discount these…