{"id":254304,"date":"2026-05-18T16:01:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T20:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/18\/iphone-17-pro-and-pro-max-review-part-midlife-crisis-part-battery-king\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T15:35:26","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T19:35:26","slug":"iphone-17-pro-and-pro-max-review-part-midlife-crisis-part-battery-king","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/18\/iphone-17-pro-and-pro-max-review-part-midlife-crisis-part-battery-king\/","title":{"rendered":"iPhone 17 Pro and Pro Max Review: Part Midlife Crisis, Part Battery King"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/tech\/mobile\/apple-iphone-17-pro-iphone-17-pro-max-review\/\">iPhone 17 Pro and Pro Max Review: Part Midlife Crisis, Part Battery King<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/tech\/mobile\/apple-iphone-17-pro-iphone-17-pro-max-review\/\">https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/tech\/mobile\/apple-iphone-17-pro-iphone-17-pro-max-review\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-18 16:01:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.cnet.com\">www.cnet.com<\/a><\/p>\n<h2 data-cy=\"reviewProduct\" class=\"c-shortcodeReviewRedesign_productName g-outer-spacing-bottom-medium\">iPhone 17 Pro and 17 Pro Max<\/h2>\n<h3 class=\"c-shortcodeReviewRedesign_prosCons_hed g-text-xxxsmall\">  Pros<br \/>\n      <\/h3>\n<ul data-cy=\"reviewPros\" class=\"c-shortcodeReviewRedesign_list\">\n<li class=\"c-shortcodeReviewRedesign_prosCons_item\">\n          The 17 Pro Max&#8217;s incredible battery life\n        <\/li>\n<li class=\"c-shortcodeReviewRedesign_prosCons_item\">\n          The brighter screen looks fantastic\n        <\/li>\n<li class=\"c-shortcodeReviewRedesign_prosCons_item\">\n          Center Stage camera with the ability to take landscape selfies vertically is sweet\n        <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"c-shortcodeReviewRedesign_prosCons_hed g-text-xxxsmall\">  Cons<br \/>\n      <\/h3>\n<ul data-cy=\"reviewCons\" class=\"c-shortcodeReviewRedesign_list\">\n<li class=\"c-shortcodeReviewRedesign_prosCons_item\">\n          Wished Dual Capture had a 50\/50 split\n        <\/li>\n<li class=\"c-shortcodeReviewRedesign_prosCons_item\">\n          Live Translation&#8217;s Siri voice can overlap with speakers&#8217;\n        <\/li>\n<li class=\"c-shortcodeReviewRedesign_prosCons_item\">\n          iPhone 17 Pro battery life is on par with the iPhone 16 Pro\n        <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"u-speakableText-p1\"><strong>Editor&#8217;s note<\/strong>: The iPhone 17 Pro and 17 Pro Max come with a major redesign. Gone is the titanium-and-glass sandwich approach of previous Apple Pro phones. In its place is an aluminum unibody that wraps around and covers most of the back. The phones come with a new high-resolution telephoto camera, a killer new selfie camera and a battery that earned the highest marks of any <span section=\"shortcodeLink\"><span>phone we tested for battery life<\/span><\/span>. The <span section=\"shortcodeLink\"><span>iPhone 17 Pro won a CNET Lab Award<\/span><\/span> as the fastest wireless-charging phone among the 33 phones we tested. The iPhone 17 Pro and 17 Pro Max are two of the best phones you can buy, which is why they received a CNET Editors&#8217; Choice award. The original review follows.<\/p>\n<p class=\"u-speakableText-p2\">From the first moment I picked up the new iPhone 17 Pro Max, I was beguiled by its bold, bright redesign. It&#8217;s a complete turnaround from the years of Apple&#8217;s subdued titanium motif. The square camera bump of previous Pro models is now a body-wide bar that Apple calls the &#8220;camera plateau.&#8221; The 17 Pro and Pro Max now come in actual colors &#8212; you won&#8217;t find one in black or space gray. This phone, especially in cosmic orange, wants you to look at it. It&#8217;s as if the iPhone 17 Pro Max is flexing its new muscular aluminum unibody and begging, &#8220;Please notice my camera plateau.&#8221; Is the iPhone having a midlife crisis?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Like a true midlife crisis, you need to look beyond the trendy clothes and whitened teeth to what&#8217;s going on underneath. And that&#8217;s where you&#8217;ll find the iPhone 17 Pro Max&#8217;s most monumental feature:&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/tech\/mobile\/apple-iphone-17-pro-iphone-17-pro-max-review\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>iPhone 17 Pro and Pro Max Review: Part Midlife Crisis, Part Battery King https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/tech\/mobile\/apple-iphone-17-pro-iphone-17-pro-max-review\/ Publish&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":254305,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/a\/img\/resize\/11d3f486ce7d8202e86bb50f6c80f7ea5cc82342\/hub\/2025\/09\/17\/75cac0a9-8cf5-4ccf-97e7-f8def469357d\/img-3343-1.jpg?auto=webp&fit=crop&height=675&width=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[120],"tags":[124,80],"class_list":["post-254304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-iphone","tag-iphone-16","tag-iphone-17"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254304"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254304"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":254307,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254304\/revisions\/254307"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}