iPhone 12 Pro

That seems kind of odd, my iPhone 12 Pro has zero issues with things like that and it’s three years old. I did upgrade a few weeks ago because the iPhone 15 cameras are amazing and I care a lot about that but I honestly had zero performance reasons to upgrade. I’ve never had an issue with a 5-6 year old phone and I always keep my old phone as a backup specifically for banking.

I got a broken one back in July when Apple launched AppleCare One. [...] My 11 Pro Max lags really badly and heats up too. Its so weird how the 12 was worse when it launched on the battery life, but the roles now reversed.

Been using the iPhone 12 pro max since I bought this pre order back in December 2020, my battery is at 70% health and it mostly survives the entire workday. In somedays it lives in plugged in on a slow charger but thats rare. [...] What I love on this phone is that since I got the white version, the scratches can be buffed out with a cloth and a metal polish so that it always looks brand new

I’v been carrying a 256gb 12 pro since November 2020, and honestly I still have no reason to update. Battery is my only issue being at 74% health, but other than that this phone still responds to my needs. [...]

I used an iPhone 12 since it came out and actually bought a new iPhone 12 around a year ago It works flawlessly like I’ve found zero limitations, it was fine in 2020 and it’s even better now with the latest iOS I even had to get a new Apple case for it from o2 (a network carrier) for just £7 and it was the last new iPhone 12 case in the whole of the UK Absolutely solid phone that I’ll still be using in 2028 for sure I’m at 88% battery health btw

I have a secondhand 12 pro i bought it on May 2024, just a casual gamer and messenger mostly, it last 5-6hours on me before it reach 20%, btw the battery is replace the when i bought it so its 100%bh(from jerryco), it can get 8-10 ML game on medium graphics but if maximum 3-5 rounds, so i advise to play it on minimum graphics to extend your battery life and always bring powerbank if travelling. Works fine for me until now.

I have the 12 pro since 4 months, and i still use ios 18 and its very strong device, good battery health and i never seen lag or getting hot . Cameras impressive gaming 10/10

I still have my iPhone 12 Pro that I preordered and got in release day and it still does everything I can ask of it, though the latest Call of Duty runs a bit slow, which is making me want to upgrade. Them not releasing a smart Siri that answers to more than just basic prompts is really hurting them and I can see why investors sued them. There's no reason for me to have to use ChatGPT on an iPhone, I should be able to talk to Siri like she's an actual personal assistant and not just an easier way to check the weather and set a timer.

Iphone 12 pro user here, but I have the I have had this phone since like march 2021 and its works well but after like 5 years the battery is around 77% and it gets a little laggy once in a while but its still managaable. Im thinking of upgrading to the 17e

[...] Cameras are great. Unfortunately, I encountered the annoying No SIM error resulting to data connection/reception issues as well as heating issues with the battery. [...]

using an iPhone 12 Pro for a year now, and it’s more than enough for me as a light & casual user. cameras are the best i’ve seen, handy, and apaka premium tignan, parang 16 Pro in some angles lol. pero ang battery talaga ung medj con niya ksi it’s not long lasting tbh kahit i replaced the batt na. [...] get a 12 Pro Max for longer battery or 13 series up na lang if makaya mo

[...] I did get tricked into putting Tahoe (or whatever the iOS version is called) on my iPhone 12 Pro though, and my phone is now sluggish and sad, so I am going to have to upgrade it, which I'm carrying quite a lot of resentment about. [...]

I have a fun one: my iPhone (12 Pro) refuses to acknowledge that it has eSIM functionality, even though the hardware exists. [...] The new phone now seems to think it has two physical SIM slots: it shows an IMEI2 in About, but any attempt to use the eSIM functionality just fails (scanning a code does "nothing"; no "add" button is visible, etc.). [...]

In my own experience, I have noticed that Apple's software 'breaks' more on older hardware, be that Mac's, iPhones or iPads. [...] For example, the touch keyboard on my (work) iPhone 12 Pro works decidedly worse than on my (private) iPhone 16 Pro. [...] You need to use their products because there is no real alternative, but you feel kind of dirty because of their practices.To me, that sounds like it should be a huge red flag for Apple execs.

[...] So, I can now change the battery on my iPhone 12 Pro and reset its status in the Settings-Battery field, which is great. [...]

Which iphone 12 pro do you have, I also have the 12 Pro and I'm ready to upgrade just based on the lack of storage and other oddities that I feel would be addressed by getting a faster phone. WhatsApp can become unusably slow for minutes at a time, apps I just used will close due to limited RAM; mind you I don't have a single game on my phone, I have bank apps, store apps, and messaging apps mostly, along with various utilities apps, like PW manager, smart home stuff, and various productivity apps (MS, Google suites). Nothing feels like it should be this terrible, and yet somehow its become a little too slow and jittery.

I upgraded from an iPhone 12 Pro to an iPhone 15 Pro for the camera. I've got some large upcoming trips and felt the improvement was worth it. [...] Slightly faster and slightly longer battery life. If it wasn't for the camera improvements I probably would have stayed with the 12 Pro for another few years. [...]

The only reason I buy nicer phones is for the camera. My kids are getting older and I'm not taking 100 photos a day anymore so when my iPhone 12 Pro is retired I'll likely get whatever iPhone SE is current and call it a day. Hopefully by then they'll have FaceID and a full coverage screen like every other iPhone. [...] My folks both have an SE (a 2 and a 3), and the photos are much better than you'd expect for a $400 phone. I've used them and they're plenty fast, it's really only the tiny screen that would give me pause. [...]

I also have an iPhone 12 Pro and it’s just as snappy as ever on iOS 17. Sounds like you might have some buggy / bad app interactions going on? There’s really no reason for a 12 Pro to be slow at this point even if the OS was getting “heavier.” The 12 Pros have 6GB of RAM, which is now pretty standard across the iPhone lineup even years later. [...] I can’t really think of much reason for you to be having a slow experience aside from the usual bugs that can accompany any new major release, and usually get ironed out over the course of a month or two. FWIW you also don’t have to update. Of course they bully you to update. [...]

If Apple just let people hang out on the last nicely-working version of iOS, where their camera still opens fast, then that’d be fine. [...] My iPhone 12 Pro has started to feel super slow since I got iOS 17. I have a new battery. Even texting feels painfully slow. [...]

I’ve been using an iPhone for the past 10 years and I’ve been very satisfied with it. But yes, they are expensive! 😅 I’ve switched my model three times and my current one is iPhone 12 Pro which is still working very well! [...]

Hahaha fair point, we are actually testing with a small language model ( on test flight) and it seems fine with the battery on my old iphone 12 pro! But these are things that we can optimize/research and get tech to work well if users find value from it basically... [...] making other AI agents align with your boundaries, rules, values, etc. [...]

[...] I have on iPhone 12 Pro and I'm running 17.4.1 ( the most recent update) and it seems it might have issues with it. It refuses to run and constantly crashes on start up. The only work around I've found is to restart my phone! [...]

i have samsung a16 and i got 12 pro as a gift so now i got 2 phone yes samsung owns iphone in battery and screen brightness but iphone DEMOLISHES samsung in performance and camera and ofc the looks and aesthetic

gotta gold 12 pro 512g’s at 79% battery health, works absolutely flawlessly I genuinely have no reason to buy a new iPhone, & since I fix phones myself a battery replacement is cake. I also have a black white & teal/green 11 that works perfectly fine as well, jus had to replace the battery a few times. these new iPhones aren’t worth it to me

[...] Plenty fast, cameras were decent, display was nice. [...]

I am still using the iPhone 12 Pro so many years since launch. [...] An absolutely fine phone other than the battery. I have to charge the phone twice a day every day with battery health at 83%. The iPhone 12 and 12 Pro were so similar but also very similar in price, only $150 difference after equalising the storage. I decided to buy the Pro for 50% more RAM and the telephoto camera. [...]

The 12 Pro series is a masterclass in this era of Apple design, with beautiful colors, excellent proportions (13 Pro and on started to get a cartoonishly big camera bump, and the 11 Pro's cameras were awkwardly too small for the triangle layout to look right), and a tank-like build quality. [...]

I got the 12 Mini but was shocked at how bad the battery was. [...] The 12 Pro was a gorgeous phone (mine was gold) and the camera bump was not to big like the recent Pros. [...]

[...] My battery life is still strong as I don’t have my auto updates on, and will only download an update about twice a year. I’ve learned the hard way with my previous IPhones experience that such downloads would cripple my battery. [...] I just feel the battery life of my 12Mini has been prolonged because I don’t allow updates as often as I did with my previous phones. [...]

[...] Battery is also a huge upgrade! [...]

I have been running iOS26 on my iPad Mini over summer as well as testing it on an older iPhone 12 Pro. I think it’s the first time ever I don’t want to update my OS on my main iPhone 16 Pro - because of what Apple designed, poor performance overall and not loving liquid glass.

[...] My iPhone 12 Pro was stolen out of my hands last year in July. I had an Apple watch, but decided to replace the iPhone with a Pixel 7 Pro [1] since it was a bit cheaper than replacing the iPhone and I didn't have a job, and as a result my watch didn't work. [...] [2] In no small part because the battery is like 16 days instead of the 1.5 days I was getting with the Apple Watch.

I have the iPhone Air right now, but I still have my iPhone 12 Pro something about the phone that I refused to trade it in. [...] I’ve always had it in a case and there’s only one tiny micro scratch and it’s an amazing condition. However, the only downfall is that the camera is kind of blurry on regular mode, but it’s perfectly fine when I zoom out or zoom all the way in and sometimes it has like these glitches. I recently changed the iPhone battery and it’s perfect so I’m sure she can go a long way but camera wise I don’t know if I wanna pay to change it. [...]

[...] Apple wasted the last 5 years without any significant innovation/revolution or even without significant evolution. No groundbreaking change from iphone 12 pro in current iphone 17 pro. Before we had many groundbreaking features that redefined how you use smarphone: - gps - flashlight (yes everybody with flashlight in the pocket!) - front selfie camera + video calls - compass + accelerometer + gyroscope - good wide and ultrawide (video) camera - nfc + apple pay - fingerprint / faceid - esim - magsafe Now you can have iphone 12 pro and don't miss much from iphone 17 pro.

Kinda sidebar here, apologies, but a question for any DSLR/Mirrorless owners out there: I've always been frustrated by the reach of phone cameras and finally got a mirrorless and 100-400 lens. [...] The sensor is 32.5MP which knocks the socks off my old iphone 12 pro, however this new 16 (or maybe it started with 15?) is 48MP. Now I know its going to be unlikely we see a phone camera with the reach - but what about landscape photography? Would a 16 pro on a tripod be able to compete with real camera gear. [...] This hobby is expensive and just trying to decide if I invest in a lens (my only other one is the kit lens) for landscape. [...]

Watching this on my iPhone 12 Pro w/ recent replaced battery (100% capacity) running IOS 26.5.2. I turned off 5G and only use LTE or WiFi and it’s 🔥 Got this back in 2020 or 2021, can’t quite remember but, I love this phone.

Still using the 12 pro since I got it in December 2020 and I’ve gotten one battery replacement so far but it’s been fine.

i´m using the 12 pro since 2024 (upgraded from the 12 mini) and i have 69% battery health

Rocking a Pacific Blue iPhone 12 Pro Max still! I replaced the battery for $100 a little over a year ago, and it’s still going strong! 💪🏻 📱

Rocking my 12pro max since March 2021 until the wheels fall off loll. Wish they used that beautiful blue again

I have the iPhone 12 Pro since 2021 and I will upgrade to iPhone 17 Pro when it comes out in September

My wife is using an- iPhone 12 Pro Max 512gb Silver with 78%BH running iOS26.5 purchased in Sep 2024 (Used ZA/A) & I’m using an- iPhone 12 Pro 256gb Graphite with 86%BH running iOS26.5 purchased in Oct 2024 (Apple CPO ZD/A)

Yeah, I an app designer, a few years back me and my colleagues would upgrade our phones around every 2 years, because the difference would be huge, and the upgrades were exiting. Now? I’m rocking an iPhone 12 Pro i bought in 2022, only because I dropped my old phone from 5 meters up onto concrete.

Indigo is excellent so far, a little bit buggy, but I am seriously impressed. (iPhone 12 Pro) And I have a Q2, a 5D4 and a 645Z, this little app is really great, and colour me surprised.

My daily is an iPhone 12 Pro and I work on bleeding edge tech daily. [...] Had to replace it when it had a battery problem. [...]

[...] The bluetooth disconnects alone make me throw this thing into the trashbox Haven't used bluetooth on PinePhone much, but for comparison, my previous iPhone 12 Pro (a "flagship" at the time) had tons of bluetooth issues and disconnects and worked terribly with in-car speaker. [...] If I cannot make a phone call and cannot use WhatsApp on a phone in 2024, it's utterly useless and can only be described as an expensive brick. [...]

Is this something that has changed with the newer phones? I have an iPhone 12 pro, and MagSafe barely holds the wireless charging circle to the back of the phone.

Never experienced anything remotely similar as you described with either my iPhone X when I had that, or my current iPhone 12 Pro..

I don’t know how the pros use the iPhone to shoot such amazing photos. I have the iPhone 12 Pro and the photos I shoot are mediocre at best and out of focus or weird lightning at worst. Did they use a tripod everywhere they go?