iPhone 8 Plus review: The last home-button Plus — glass back, wireless charging.
The last of the classic home-button Plus iPhones.
The iPhone 8 Plus added a glass back and wireless charging to the familiar Touch ID design. It is firmly a legacy device now — useful as history, not as a daily phone.
01Display
64/10064/100 is one of the weaker display results among flagship phones of 2017 — 14 points under the average. Check the rows below before buying for this.
02Camera
70/10070/100 trails the 72-point cohort average for flagship phones of 2017.
03Performance
66/10066/100 is one of the weaker performance results among flagship phones of 2017 — 6 points under the average. Check the rows below before buying for this.
04Battery
68/10068/100 — right at the average for flagship phones of 2017.
05Build
78/10078/100 — right at the average for flagship phones of 2017.
06Value
62/10062/100 — right at the average for flagship phones of 2017.
- Glass back enabled wireless charging.
- Reliable dual camera with 2× zoom.
- Classic Touch ID home button.
- Solid A11 performance for its day.
- Thick bezels and a 1080p 60 Hz LCD.
- No 5G; stuck on iOS 16.
- Heavy 202 g.
- Discontinued.
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 121-phone cohort of flagship devices released around the same time. We don't publish invented lab anecdotes. Spot an error? .