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<span style="color: #555; font-weight: bold;" darkstyle="color: var(--wiki-muted);">New camera. New design. Newphoria.</span>
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{{iPhone lineup Navbox}}

The iPhone 15 is a [[smartphone]] designed and marketed by [[Apple|Apple]], announced on September 12, 2023, and released on September 22, 2023, with the [[iPhone 15 Plus]], [[iPhone 15 Pro]], and [[iPhone 15 Pro Max]]. Its history-book line is the port on the bottom: after eleven years and roughly 2.5 billion devices, Lightning gave way to USB-C — the change the European Union's common-charger law made unavoidable, applied across the generation at once.

The rest of the update was the deepest trickle-down the base tier had received: the [[iPhone 14 Pro]]'s Dynamic Island replaced the notch, the 48-megapixel main camera arrived with its 2× crop tier, the A16 Bionic followed the chip-behind cadence, peak brightness doubled to 2,000 nits, and the color-infused back glass came matte and pastel. Reviews summarized it as last year's Pro sold as this year's base — meant, for once, mostly as a compliment.

The 15 pair stayed in the lineup as discounted tiers until September 2025, the first base models to complete their run entirely in the USB-C era.

= Design =

The flat aluminum design continued with softer contoured edges and color infused through matte back glass — Black, Blue, Green, Yellow, Pink, all pale enough that reviewers joked about Apple's fear of saturation. The Dynamic Island brought the base tier the pill-shaped interactive cutout; 171 g, Ceramic Shield, IP68 at six meters, MagSafe. And USB-C: charging, data, DisplayPort out, and even accessory charging (AirPods off the phone) through the universal connector — USB 2.0 speeds at this tier, one of the remaining Pro separators.

= Hardware =

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| style="text-align: left;" | [[Apple|Apple]]
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| style="text-align: left;" | 17th
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! style="color: #555; text-align: left;" darkstyle="color: var(--wiki-color);" | Announced
| style="text-align: left;" | September 12, 2023
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! style="color: #555; text-align: left;" darkstyle="color: var(--wiki-color);" | Released
| style="text-align: left;" | September 22, 2023
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! style="color: #555; text-align: left;" darkstyle="color: var(--wiki-color);" | Discontinued
| style="text-align: left;" | September 9, 2025
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! style="color: #555; text-align: left;" darkstyle="color: var(--wiki-color);" | Predecessor
| style="text-align: left;" | [[iPhone 14]]
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! style="color: #555; text-align: left;" darkstyle="color: var(--wiki-color);" | Related
| style="text-align: left;" | [[iPhone 15 Plus]] · [[iPhone 15 Pro]] · [[iPhone 15 Pro Max]]
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! style="color: #555; text-align: left;" darkstyle="color: var(--wiki-color);" | Successor
| style="text-align: left;" | [[iPhone 16]]
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! style="color: #555; text-align: left;" darkstyle="color: var(--wiki-color);" | Display
| style="text-align: left;" | 6.1-inch Super Retina XDR OLED<br>2556 × 1179 (460 ppi) · Dynamic Island<br>2,000 nits peak
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! style="color: #555; text-align: left;" darkstyle="color: var(--wiki-color);" | Chip
| style="text-align: left;" | [[Apple A16|Apple A16 Bionic]]<br>— carried from the 14 Pro
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! style="color: #555; text-align: left;" darkstyle="color: var(--wiki-color);" | RAM
| style="text-align: left;" | 6 GB
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! style="color: #555; text-align: left;" darkstyle="color: var(--wiki-color);" | Storage
| style="text-align: left;" | 128 GB · 256 GB · 512 GB
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! style="color: #555; text-align: left;" darkstyle="color: var(--wiki-color);" | Rear cameras
| style="text-align: left;" | 48 MP main, f/1.6, sensor-shift OIS<br>(2× crop tier) + 12 MP ultra-wide, f/2.4<br>next-gen portraits (no mode switch)
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! style="color: #555; text-align: left;" darkstyle="color: var(--wiki-color);" | Front camera
| style="text-align: left;" | 12 MP TrueDepth, f/1.9, autofocus
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! style="color: #555; text-align: left;" darkstyle="color: var(--wiki-color);" | Battery
| style="text-align: left;" | 3,349 mAh · MagSafe 15 W · Qi2
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! style="color: #555; text-align: left;" darkstyle="color: var(--wiki-color);" | Connectivity
| style="text-align: left;" | '''USB-C''' (USB 2.0) · 5G · Wi-Fi 6<br>Bluetooth 5.3 · US models eSIM only<br>Roadside Assistance via satellite
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! style="color: #555; text-align: left;" darkstyle="color: var(--wiki-color);" | Colors
| style="text-align: left;" | Black · Blue · Green · Yellow · Pink
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! style="color: #555; text-align: left;" darkstyle="color: var(--wiki-color);" | Launch price
| style="text-align: left;" | $799 (128 GB) · $899 (256 GB) · $1,099 (512 GB)
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! style="color: #555; text-align: left;" darkstyle="color: var(--wiki-color);" | OS
| style="text-align: left;" | iOS 17.0 ~ current
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The A16 hand-me-down kept the base tier a chip ahead of the Android field, and Qi2 — the wireless standard built from Apple's MagSafe contribution — arrived via update, aligning the industry on Apple's magnet ring. Satellite features grew Roadside Assistance alongside Emergency SOS.

= Camera =

The 48-megapixel quad-pixel main sensor brought the Pro's photography playbook down-tier: 24-megapixel default output (a new middle ground), the optical-quality 2× crop, and portraits captured automatically whenever a subject was detected — depth recorded without switching modes, focus editable afterward. Low light and detail stepped clearly past the [[iPhone 14]]; the missing telephoto remained the Pro argument.

= Software =

Shipped with iOS 17 (StandBy, Contact Posters, interactive widgets); current release train since.

= Release and reception =

USB-C dominated coverage to the point of parody — reviewers charging a MacBook from a phone — and the consensus rated the 15 the strongest base model in years: Pro features one year late at $200 less. Complaints: 60 Hz in 2023, USB 2.0 speeds, and the A16 rather than A17. Strong sales through its flagship year were followed by the traditional price-cut afterlife at $699 and $599, ending September 9, 2025.

= Legacy =

The 15 closed the Lightning era for the mass market and completed the Dynamic Island's takeover of the lineup's face. Its 48 MP camera and 2× tier reset expectations of what the "regular" iPhone photographs like, and its Qi2 alignment turned Apple's proprietary magnets into everyone's wireless standard — the template the current [[iPhone 17]] still follows.

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{| style="width: 100%; border: 2px solid #333; text-align: center;" darkstyle="border-color: #48484a;" |- | colspan="5" style="padding: 28px 20px 42px;" | <div style="font: bold 2em/1.2 -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'SF Pro Display', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: var(--wiki-color); margin-bottom: 0.8em;">iPhone 15</div> <span style="color: #555; font-weight: bold;" darkstyle="color: var(--wiki-muted);">New camera. New design. Newphoria.</span> |- | colspan="5" style="padding: 0;" | <div style="max-width: 300px; margin: 5px auto;">![[iphone_15.webp]]</div> |- | style="width: 20%; background-color: #35393b; color: #fff;" | '''Black''' | style="width: 20%; background-color: #ced5d9; color: #000;" | '''Blue''' | style="width: 20%; background-color: #cad4c5; color: #000;" | '''Green''' | style="width: 20%; background-color: #e6e0c1; color: #000;" | '''Yellow''' | style="width: 20%; background-color: #e3c8ca; color: #000;" | '''Pink''' |- | colspan="5" style="background-color: #333; padding: 8px;" | [https://support.apple.com/en-us/111831 <span style="color: #fff;">iPhone 15 — Technical Specifications (Apple Support)</span>] |} {{iPhone lineup Navbox}} The iPhone 15 is a [[smartphone]] designed and marketed by [[Apple|Apple]], announced on September 12, 2023, and released on September 22, 2023, with the [[iPhone 15 Plus]], [[iPhone 15 Pro]], and [[iPhone 15 Pro Max]]. Its history-book line is the port on the bottom: after eleven years and roughly 2.5 billion devices, Lightning gave way to USB-C — the change the European Union's common-charger law made unavoidable, applied across the generation at once. The rest of the update was the deepest trickle-down the base tier had received: the [[iPhone 14 Pro]]'s Dynamic Island replaced the notch, the 48-megapixel main camera arrived with its 2× crop tier, the A16 Bionic followed the chip-behind cadence, peak brightness doubled to 2,000 nits, and the color-infused back glass came matte and pastel. Reviews summarized it as last year's Pro sold as this year's base — meant, for once, mostly as a compliment. The 15 pair stayed in the lineup as discounted tiers until September 2025, the first base models to complete their run entirely in the USB-C era. = Design = The flat aluminum design continued with softer contoured edges and color infused through matte back glass — Black, Blue, Green, Yellow, Pink, all pale enough that reviewers joked about Apple's fear of saturation. The Dynamic Island brought the base tier the pill-shaped interactive cutout; 171 g, Ceramic Shield, IP68 at six meters, MagSafe. And USB-C: charging, data, DisplayPort out, and even accessory charging (AirPods off the phone) through the universal connector — USB 2.0 speeds at this tier, one of the remaining Pro separators. = Hardware = {| style="max-width: 500px; border: 2px solid #555; text-align: center;" darkstyle="border-color: #48484a;" |- ! style="color: #555; text-align: left; width: 22%;" darkstyle="color: var(--wiki-color);" | Developer | style="text-align: left;" | [[Apple|Apple]] |- ! style="color: #555; text-align: left;" darkstyle="color: var(--wiki-color);" | Generation | style="text-align: left;" | 17th |- ! style="color: #555; text-align: left;" darkstyle="color: var(--wiki-color);" | Announced | style="text-align: left;" | September 12, 2023 |- ! style="color: #555; text-align: left;" darkstyle="color: var(--wiki-color);" | Released | style="text-align: left;" | September 22, 2023 |- ! style="color: #555; text-align: left;" darkstyle="color: var(--wiki-color);" | Discontinued | style="text-align: left;" | September 9, 2025 |- ! style="color: #555; text-align: left;" darkstyle="color: var(--wiki-color);" | Predecessor | style="text-align: left;" | [[iPhone 14]] |- ! style="color: #555; text-align: left;" darkstyle="color: var(--wiki-color);" | Related | style="text-align: left;" | [[iPhone 15 Plus]] · [[iPhone 15 Pro]] · [[iPhone 15 Pro Max]] |- ! style="color: #555; text-align: left;" darkstyle="color: var(--wiki-color);" | Successor | style="text-align: left;" | [[iPhone 16]] |- ! style="color: #555; text-align: left;" darkstyle="color: var(--wiki-color);" | Display | style="text-align: left;" | 6.1-inch Super Retina XDR OLED<br>2556 × 1179 (460 ppi) · Dynamic Island<br>2,000 nits peak |- ! style="color: #555; text-align: left;" darkstyle="color: var(--wiki-color);" | Chip | style="text-align: left;" | [[Apple A16|Apple A16 Bionic]]<br>— carried from the 14 Pro |- ! style="color: #555; text-align: left;" darkstyle="color: var(--wiki-color);" | RAM | style="text-align: left;" | 6 GB |- ! style="color: #555; text-align: left;" darkstyle="color: var(--wiki-color);" | Storage | style="text-align: left;" | 128 GB · 256 GB · 512 GB |- ! style="color: #555; text-align: left;" darkstyle="color: var(--wiki-color);" | Rear cameras | style="text-align: left;" | 48 MP main, f/1.6, sensor-shift OIS<br>(2× crop tier) + 12 MP ultra-wide, f/2.4<br>next-gen portraits (no mode switch) |- ! style="color: #555; text-align: left;" darkstyle="color: var(--wiki-color);" | Front camera | style="text-align: left;" | 12 MP TrueDepth, f/1.9, autofocus |- ! style="color: #555; text-align: left;" darkstyle="color: var(--wiki-color);" | Battery | style="text-align: left;" | 3,349 mAh · MagSafe 15 W · Qi2 |- ! style="color: #555; text-align: left;" darkstyle="color: var(--wiki-color);" | Connectivity | style="text-align: left;" | '''USB-C''' (USB 2.0) · 5G · Wi-Fi 6<br>Bluetooth 5.3 · US models eSIM only<br>Roadside Assistance via satellite |- ! style="color: #555; text-align: left;" darkstyle="color: var(--wiki-color);" | Colors | style="text-align: left;" | Black · Blue · Green · Yellow · Pink |- ! style="color: #555; text-align: left;" darkstyle="color: var(--wiki-color);" | Launch price | style="text-align: left;" | $799 (128 GB) · $899 (256 GB) · $1,099 (512 GB) |- ! style="color: #555; text-align: left;" darkstyle="color: var(--wiki-color);" | OS | style="text-align: left;" | iOS 17.0 ~ current |} The A16 hand-me-down kept the base tier a chip ahead of the Android field, and Qi2 — the wireless standard built from Apple's MagSafe contribution — arrived via update, aligning the industry on Apple's magnet ring. Satellite features grew Roadside Assistance alongside Emergency SOS. = Camera = The 48-megapixel quad-pixel main sensor brought the Pro's photography playbook down-tier: 24-megapixel default output (a new middle ground), the optical-quality 2× crop, and portraits captured automatically whenever a subject was detected — depth recorded without switching modes, focus editable afterward. Low light and detail stepped clearly past the [[iPhone 14]]; the missing telephoto remained the Pro argument. = Software = Shipped with iOS 17 (StandBy, Contact Posters, interactive widgets); current release train since. = Release and reception = USB-C dominated coverage to the point of parody — reviewers charging a MacBook from a phone — and the consensus rated the 15 the strongest base model in years: Pro features one year late at $200 less. Complaints: 60 Hz in 2023, USB 2.0 speeds, and the A16 rather than A17. Strong sales through its flagship year were followed by the traditional price-cut afterlife at $699 and $599, ending September 9, 2025. = Legacy = The 15 closed the Lightning era for the mass market and completed the Dynamic Island's takeover of the lineup's face. Its 48 MP camera and 2× tier reset expectations of what the "regular" iPhone photographs like, and its Qi2 alignment turned Apple's proprietary magnets into everyone's wireless standard — the template the current [[iPhone 17]] still follows.