iPhone 15 Pro satisfaction drops to previously unimaginable levels while the vanilla iPhone 15 is getting all the love

iPhone 15 Pro satisfaction drops to previously unimaginable levels while the vanilla iPhone 15 is getting all the love،

(I can't get no) Satisfaction! This is what iPhone 15 Pro users are humming these days. They have been humming like this for several months – at the end of October 2023, we told you about iPhone 15 Pro having the worst user-generated reviews of any high-end iPhone model to date.

Now the iPhone 15 Pro is receiving even less public love, according to the most recent reports (via 9to5Mac). The vanilla iPhone 15, however, is getting more and more love. It's something. I'm sure the people in Cupertino were hoping for the exact opposite phenomenon, but here we are, living in the strangest of times. Or maybe times aren't so strange and there's a simple reason behind the decline in satisfaction among iPhone 15 Pro users…

What changed?

In late October 2023, a PerfectRec report examined nearly 700,000 user-generated reviews online and found that the iPhone 15 Pro received 5/5 stars from only 73% of these reviews. This was lower than the similar 5/5 scores of the iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 13 Pro.

The latest report from PerfectRec (by the way: these reports should be called “PerfectWreck”) applies the same methodology and finds that the cheapest iPhone15 and 15 Plus achieve an increase in customer satisfaction. Usually, Pro phones have higher ratings than the base variants, but not this time.

Today, only 66.1% of iPhone 15 Pro reviews now give 5/5 stars. And for the iPhone 15 Pro Max, that went from 77% to 72.5%.

On the other hand, the iPhone15 went from 68.2% to 78.1% and the iPhone 15 Plus went from 70% to 73.5% for 5/5 star ratings.

Over the past 30 days, the top three complaints about iPhone 15 Pro were, according to the report: