iPhone 14 Plus
A bigger screen and longer battery life – what’s not to like?
From £949 FROM apple.com/uk FEATURES 6.7-inch Super Retina XDR display (2778x1284 pixels), A15 Bionic chip, 128/256/512GB of storage, Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5.3, 5G mobile connectivity, Lightning
The iPhone 14 Plus gives you an extra six hours of battery life
VERDICT
A much bigger screen and longer battery life make this the iPhone 14 to own.
★★★★☆
6.7in display Up to 26 hours of battery life
Excellent build iPhone Pro models deliver better value
A pple’s iPhone launch event in September was notable for two things: the demise of the highly praised, but poorly selling iPhone mini; and the re-emergence of the iPhone Plus – aphone Apple last launched in 2017, the same year the England women’s football team won the World Cup and Prince Harry got engaged to Meghan Markle. How times have changed. While the 2017 iPhone 8 Plus sported a 5.5in Retina HD display, A11 Bionic chip and up to 256GB of storage with prices starting £799, the 2022 version is a much more enticing proposition, thanks to a 6.7-inch Super Retina XDR display, an A15 Bionic chip (borrowed from last year’s iPhone 13 Pro), and up to 512GB of storage with prices starting at £949 – that means it costs £100 more to start with than the iPhone 14 (with its 6.1in display), but £250 less than the identically-sized iPhone 14 Pro Max, which starts at £1,199 for a model equipped with an A16 Bionic chip and 128GB of storage. The larger screen size aside, the iPhone 14 Plus is identical in every way to its smaller sibling, the iPhone 14 (see our review in MF384), boasting the same camera system (comprising a 12MP main camera with Wide and Ultra Wide lenses) and coming in the same range of colour finishes: Blue, Purple, Midnight, Starlight and (Product)Red. So why buy one?