Apple iPhone 6s Plus deals and reviews

Know Your Mobile | Michael Grothaus

While not as good as the iPhone 7 with its dual lens camera, the iPhone 6s Plus is the best S-series upgrade ever. The 3D Touch display, the pure speed of the device, and the major improvements to the camera and Touch ID–every single thing is leagues better than the iPhone 6.

Alphr | Alan Martin and Jonathan Bray

Aside from Apple's pig-headed insistence on retaining a 16GB model – which is all the more baffling a decision now that 4K video and Live Photos are on hand to gobble it all up – the iPhone 6s Plus has no significant weakness. It's a great feat of smartphone engineering that ranks among the very best examples of the oeuvre.

Expert Reviews | David Ludlow

The iPhone 6S is full of genuinely new and useful features, including the excellent 3D Touch, the powerful A9 chip and a greatly improved camera.

Digital Versus | Romain Thuret

... the 6s Plus is actually the best iPhone to be launched to date. It gives you more or less the same basic experience as the iPhone 6s, but with massively improved battery life, which is sometimes even twice as long, depending on use.

T3 | Gareth Beavis

The iPhones 6S Plus is the best Apple phablet around. That's not exactly difficult when it's only got the 6 Plus as competition, but Apple's done enough to upgrade the 6S Plus in some key areas.

phoneArena | John V.

It's premium in design, incredibly responsive with its performance, and it even does a commendable job with its battery life and camera quality. Fundamentally, it has all the ingredients of being a wonderful phone. However, as we've seen this year, carriers have moved away from subsidy pricing, which means that phones are now purchased through these financing deals – or outright, that's if you have the disposable income to splurge.

IT PRO | Alan Lu

Unsurprisingly, the iPhone 6s Plus is a great smartphone both its own right as well as compared to its immediate predecessor and the competition. Although we're not convinced by Live Photos, everything else about this phone is useful and well-designed – especially 3D Touch which we expect to become standard on all iOS devices sooner or later.

Digital Spy | Matt Hill

... the iPhone 6S Plus is an all-round excellent smartphone, with an increasingly versatile operating system that has been iterated and evolved within an inch of its life, an impressive camera and the best app store around powering it.

Engadget | Chris Velazco

A long-lasting battery and optical image stabilization for its 12-megapixel rear camera help give the iPhone 6s Plus a slight edge over the regular 6s, although we wish it were a little easier to hold.

Phone Scoop | Eric M. Zeman

The 6s Plus is significantly better than its immediate predecessor, and most of the competition. The 6s Plus may look identical to last year's iPhone, but nearly everything that counts has been improved.

Tom's Guide | Mark Spoonauer

The iPhone 6s Plus offer a new way to interact with your phone in 3D Touch, along with a class leading A9 CPU and improve camera, the bigger and sharper screen on the Plus and its optical image stabilization for photos make it a better choice.

NDTV Gadgets | Kunal Dua

While the iPhone 6s Plus is rather ungainly to use on an everyday basis, its better camera and battery life make it Apple's 'real' flagship phone that we feel people should consider getting. You would probably want to get the 64GB version though.

SlashGear | Vincent Nguyen

Consistency, convenience, and speed. If you were ready to write-off the iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus as Apple merely tinkering with the - admittedly best-selling - iPhone 6 formula, you really need to think again. 3D Touch has the potential to be as game-changing in the way we interact with our smartphones as multitouch was, while 4K support could finally popularize Ultra HD video.

pocketnow | Michael Fisher

the iPhone 6s Plus is physically almost indistinguishable from last year's 6 Plus – and some of the challenges of that model remain on this one. Despite this, the iPhone 6s Plus is still one of the most expensive smartphones you can find in the mainstream market today.

TechnoBuffalo | Todd Haselton

The iPhone 6s Plus is a top-tier flagship, but it's probably not worth an upgrade if you have last year's model. And there are other great flagships to choose from.

Trusted Reviews | Evan Kypreos

If there were ever any doubts over Apple's ability to innovate following the passing of Steve Jobs then 3D Touch emphatically quashes them. The iPhone 6S Plus is a touch of genius, even if it is a little larger than it needs to be.

Pocket-lint | Stuart Miles

The iPhone 6S Plus is a lovely smartphone, but it's also a big and heavy one.

PC Advisor | Jim Martin

The iPhone 6S Plus is a remarkable phone, and it's without doubt the best iPhone Apple has ever made.

Mobile Choice | Sunetra Chakravarti

This is a fabulous phone. The iPhone 6s Plus is a very definitive and confident step by Apple in a direction they know they will succeed on, and almost a leap.

AnandTech | Ryan Smith & Joshua Ho

... the iPhone 6s, even when compared to iPhones alone, is especially noteworthy for the improvements to overall user experience.

Mashable | Lance Ulanoff

Apple's iPhone 6S Plus is a worthy upgrade that you don't actually need, but may want for the 3D Touch and stunning 4K video. It should please Apple fans and probably attract more than a few Android switchers.

City News | Mike Yawney

The iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus may not look radically different from last year's models but they set a new course for the iPhone.

Mobile Syrup | Daniel Bader

Despite no upgrades to battery life, and a disappointing 16GB of base storage, the tangible improvements, like the addition of 3D Touch, or the camera upgrades, are worth highlighting.

The Loop | Jim Dalrymple

Quick Actions, 3D Touch, faster Touch ID, 4K video, better photos, Live Photos-these are all things that are going to make the iPhone 6s even better for me as a user. In the time that I've been using the new iPhones, I haven't found anything I didn't like or that didn't work as it should.

The Independent | David Phelan

If your hands are comfortable with a bigger phone, the 6s Plus has lots to recommend it. The screen's full HD resolution is spectacular. There are other phones with higher pixel counts but pixels aren't everything and Apple's screen is pretty much unbeaten for glossy, classy good looks.

The Verge | Nilay Patel

...if you are thinking of buying a new phone, and you have anything older than an iPhone 6, you should buy an iPhone 6S Plus. It is the best iPhone ever made, and it is right now the best phone on the market.

NotebookCheck | Daniel Schmidt, Patrick Afschar Kaboli

So, is the new Apple iPhone 6S Plus currently the best smartphone on the market? Not really. The S6 models from Samsung are still one step ahead of the new iPhone. The 6S Plus is still one of the best smartphones, and certainly the best iPhone; and the most expensive.

TechSpot | Shawn Knight

Yes, this is the best iPhone Apple has ever made. But with so many excellent Android phones to choose from, defecting to Apple is a much harder sell than in years past.

Neowin | Timi Cantisano

Overall, the iPhone 6s Plus is the best iPhone to date. But, that's not surprising considering Apple's meticulous adherence to incremental changes without tampering with a winning formula. So whether this is your first time buying an iPhone or upgrading from an older model, Apple has added just the right amount in this "s" entry to make consumers happy.

TechPP (Technology Personalized) | Nimish Dubey

... we would go so far as to say that this is perhaps the most significant camera upgrade we have seen on the iPhone since 2011.

TechRadar | John McCann

Apple has reinvigorated its phablet without rewriting the playbook thanks to its smart 3D Touch technology and a more power under the hood. It's not the upgrade some will have been hoping for, but it's the upgrade we've got.

The Journal

More of the same on the outside, but some considerable improvements on the inside make this a good upgrade for non-iPhone 6 owners... It's refined, simple to use, has a great camera that adapts to most situations, and an app store that is prioritised by most developers.

The Inquirer | Madeline Bennett

The iPhone 6S Plus offers a large, good quality screen and great performance, while 3D Touch is an impressive piece of tech and a useful addition. The 6S Plus is a great choice of handset for anyone looking for a phablet with a premium build, although the cost could prove prohibitive.

TechAeris | Alex Hernandez

The iPhone 6s Plus is not a worthy upgrade over the iPhone 6 Plus, I would recommend waiting for the 7 if you're using a 6 now. That being said, if you're rocking anything that's 5s or below, then this is absolutely a great upgrade.

V3 | Madeline Bennett

The iPhone 6S Plus offers a large, good quality screen and great performance, while 3D Touch is an impressive piece of tech and a useful addition. The 6S Plus is a great choice of handset for anyone looking for a phablet with a premium build, although the cost could prove prohibitive.

The Guardian | Samuel Gibbs

Faster fingerprint sensor, slightly better camera, and novelties such as a pressure sensitive screen cannot make up for the lack of extended battery life

Stuff | Elissa Loi

The iPhone 6s Plus provides an expansive immersive experience thanks to its giant screen - but that's only if you can handle it

Australian PC World | Tony Ibrahim

The iPhone 6s Plus is a phablet undermined by compromise. There is no one iPhone that has excellent battery life, a large screen and a body that is comfortable. The ordinary 6s is stumped by mediocre battery life, and although the 6s Plus excels in this regard, its enormity discounts its appeal as a smartphone. People locked into Apple's ecosystem will have to live with one of these shortcomings, and this is why the phablet space remains dominated by Android.

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The iPhone 6s Plus comes with a faster A9 processor, a 12 megapixel camera with 4K video recording, and Apple's new 3D Touch feature. It's also been substantially strengthened to avoid problems with bending. Although it's a a wonderful piece of tech in many ways, it's phenomenally expensive.