Here’s why it’s a big deal, in case you’ve never tried ProMotion. While the display on the iPhone 16 is excellent, side-by-side with the iPhone 16 Pro, you can see the difference.
The iPhone 16 has an OLED display with a fixed 60Hz refresh rate, the Pro has an OLED with a dynamic refresh rate. This goes right up to 120Hz, which means that when you’re scrolling through menu list or swiping text up the screen, everything is butter-smooth and judder-free. The same for video playback.
Because it’s dynamic, the iPhone is clever enough to drop the refresh rate when you’re looking at static content, which saves battery life.
There’s another benefit: the always-on display of the Pro models. When the iPhone is in standby, it can still display the time, any widgets on your lock screen and a muted version of your lock screen wallpaper. You no longer need to tap your iPhone to see what the time is.
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It achieves this without sacrificing much battery power by dropping that refresh rate heavily. The Pro models from iPhone 14 onwards have been able to drop the refresh rate as low as 1Hz, while the iPhone 13 Pro before them only managed to go down to 10Hz.
