The iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max excel in numerous ways, from powerful chipsets to capable cameras and beyond, but do their colors impress?
Typically, Apple just offers a small number of color choices for its Pro phones, and these are usually quite smart and understated.
For the most part, this trend has continued for the iPhone 16 Pro and Pro Max, with four shades offered, none of which come close to the brightness of some iPhone 16 colors.
Below, you'll find images and details of all four Pro color options, and note that all four choices are offered on both the iPhone 16 Pro and the iPhone 16 Pro Max.
But if you're still deciding which iPhone to buy, as well as which color, you should also check out our iPhone 16 review, our iPhone 16 Plus review, our iPhone 16 Pro review, and our iPhone 16 Pro Max review.
Desert Titanium
Let's start with the most interesting iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max color: Desert Titanium.
Why is this the most interesting? Well, for one thing it's the only new shade this year, as the other three were also available for the iPhone 15 Pro line.
It's also a slightly more unusual color in general than the other options. This is essentially a dark, pale gold color, reminiscent of rose gold but with more brown than pink in it.
Desert Titanium's similarity to rose gold – which itself is a popular smartphone color – means it's not super unusual, but it's at least a bit different.
Natural Titanium
Next, we have a gray shade, which is sold as Natural Titanium, and this is a color that you could also get the iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max in.
Aside from the fact that it was used last year this is quite an unusual color for a phone, but it’s a smart, understated shade in line with the colors Apple tends to choose for its Pro phones.
White Titanium
Now we’re coming to the more conventional colors, with White Titanium being next up.
This again is a color that you can get the iPhone 15 Pro line in as well as the iPhone 16 Pro line, so it should be a familiar shade. This is basically just a shade of white, which itself is a very popular, common, and (whisper it) ordinary smartphone color.
So this is likely to sell well and unlikely to turn heads, but fitting in is sometimes desirable.
Black Titanium
Finally, there’s a Black Titanium shade, which has a hint of gray to it but is by far the darkest shade that you can get the iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max in.
That in itself might make this appealing, and as with white, black is a very common and popular smartphone shade in general, so it's no wonder that this is making a return from the iPhone 15 Pro line.
It's a smart, understated option, like the rest of the iPhone 16 Pro colors, and if we had to guess we'd say this might prove the most popular of them all.
What color should you go for?
Ultimately, beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but that doesn't mean we can't let you in on our favorite iPhone 16 colors. Now that a few of us on the TechRadar team have had a chance to give the new iPhones a spin, we were pleasantly surprised the Desert Titanium looks rather nice in the metal.
And naturally you can't go wrong with a black iPhone, which has tht classic go-with-everything look. Natural Titanium is pleasant but a but basic, and arguably lacks the punch Apple's classic Space Gray color offers.
White Titanium really caught our eye, which when combined with the black of the rear cameras, give the iPhone 16 Pro and 16 Pro Max a Star Wars Stormtrooper look, which we rather like and therefore recommend the most.
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