iPhone 15 Pro Max review: The first titanium iPhone, and the first with a 5× periscope.
Still a great phone — and now often the smarter buy at a discount.
The 15 Pro Max introduced titanium, USB-C, the Action button and a 5× periscope. A year on it remains fully current on software, and as prices fall it is one of the better-value flagships you can buy.
01Display
93/10093/100 puts it above the 88-point average for flagship phones of 2023.
02Camera
90/100At 90/100 this is one of the strongest camera showings among flagship phones of 2023 — 9 points above the cohort average.
03Performance
92/10092/100 puts it above the 88-point average for flagship phones of 2023.
04Battery
84/10084/100 — right at the average for flagship phones of 2023.
05Build
94/100At 94/100 this is one of the strongest build showings among flagship phones of 2023 — 10 points above the cohort average.
06Value
83/10083/100 puts it above the 78-point average for flagship phones of 2023.
- First iPhone with a 5× periscope telephoto.
- Titanium frame cut meaningful weight versus the 14 Pro Max.
- Action button replaced the mute switch — genuinely useful.
- Still on the current iOS feature track with Apple Intelligence.
- A17 Pro can throttle under sustained gaming.
- ~27 W charging was already slow in 2023.
- Heavy at 221 g.
- No always-on improvements over rivals.
How this review is built: every section score, spec row and comparison on this page comes from SpecEagle's tracked catalogue — scores weight measured specs against the 241-phone cohort of flagship devices released around the same time. We don't publish invented lab anecdotes. Spot an error? .