upgrading my phone soon

By Alicia Krage, 11 December, 2025

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iOS and iPadOS

Hi all,

I'll be upgrading soon from the iPhone 15 to the 17 base model. I'd just love to hear your experience! i'm most looking forward to the speakers and the action button. I'm hearing good things about how the speakers sound.

Also, how's your battery life? I'm sure it's an improvement to what I have now but just curious.

Looking forward to reading responses!

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By Holger Fiallo on Thursday, December 11, 2025 - 13:46

If the 16 is great be it pro or regular, the 17 is much better. Make sure your setting for battery are set up for saving energy. Many post for it were posted here. Long live cats.

By Brian on Thursday, December 11, 2025 - 14:47

If I were to stay with iOS I would wait for the 17E, but that's me. 😇

By Singer Girl on Thursday, December 11, 2025 - 15:16

I have an iPhone 15 and I love it. I’m not sure if that’s the greatest answer at the moment but I did get my phone brand new in August of this year so that could be why. I have the 512 gig variant in pink. It’s a great phone. I haven’t seen an iPhone 17, but I hope you enjoy it when you get it. I was sad that none of the newer phones are coming in pink or even product red. My secondary device is my product red 256 gig variant of the iPhone SE third generation. I kept it so I could have a second device for my music and emails and things like that so wouldn’t get interrupted a phone call notifications. Besides these phones are no longer in production but still continue to get software updates so I kept it. It’s basically an iPod. I never had a chance to get an iPod so this was the next best thing. Hope you enjoy your new phone.

By Brian on Thursday, December 11, 2025 - 16:05

The closest thing we get to Product Red would be the Cosmic Orange of the iPhone 17 Pro models. I'm not sure how I feel about that color, as it just reminds me of Cheetos...

By Ash Rein on Thursday, December 11, 2025 - 16:33

I would wait till next year. It’s a great phone. A real massive changes are coming. At this point, just give it a few months.

By onetrickpony on Thursday, December 11, 2025 - 16:42

@Ash Rein: Can you go into details, what that means?

By Holger Fiallo on Thursday, December 11, 2025 - 17:36

Love the color, remember when I could see and like the orange, between orange and red. Long live cats.