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Alphr | Thomas McMullan, Jonathan Bray

...if you want to be at the forefront of the next revolution in smartphone technology – and, make no mistake, that's precisely what 3D Touch offers – there's nothing else to do but buy an Apple iPhone 6s. It also happens to be a mighty fine smartphone.

Pocket-lint | Stuart Miles

An iPhone S update year usually means a couple of new features that most people could take or leave, but the iPhone 6S is the most exciting S model for a long time. It bucks the usual trend, delivering a phone that will offer plenty to iPhone users new and old alike.

Know Your Mobile | Michael Grothaus

The iPhone 6s, as expected, doesn't look like much from the outside. It is exactly the same as the iPhone 6, save for the slight difference in weight, and Apple has largely left the aesthetics alone, meaning if you weren't a fan of the plastic strip and nubbin-style camera sensor then, well, you're not going to like this one all that much either.

Expert Reviews | Katharine Byrne

For anyone with an iPhone 5S or older, the iPhone 6S is a brilliant upgrade introducing a ton of new features. However, the iPhone 6 still rears its head at this point, as it's still a brilliant phone and, for the more frugal buyer, a lower cost option while they wait for the iPhone 7.

BGR | Zach Epstein

Apple's iPhone 6s design is stunning and modern, the fit and finish are completely unrivaled, and iOS 9 offers a simple yet powerful and versatile user experience that cannot be matched. Add to that a third-party app ecosystem that is still superior to rival platforms, and you have the complete package.

T3 | Gareth Beavis

If there'd been something tangible to grab onto with the new iPhone - a longer lasting battery, a higher-res screen - then perhaps it would have been easy to recommend this model without question. But even still, if you're an iPhone fan then there's no question which is the right one to go for, with the 6S offering future proofing a really fun new interface to play with.

What Hi-Fi?

There's nothing revolutionary here, nothing that will suddenly turn your head to iOS. But what Apple is so good at, and what is so clear in the 6S, is its attention to detail – adding in clever features that work and upgrades that matter, all of which come together to deliver an experience that few can challenge.

The Gadget Show

The iPhone 6s is easily the best iPhone to date, boasting a hugely impressive camera, even faster Touch ID and solid build quality. Apple's clearly pushing forward, but it does lag a bit behind in terms of battery life and features like waterproofing.

Stuff | Elissa Loi

"Everything's changed" is pushing it, but within the 6s' familiar body lies a surprising amount of innovation.

OtherGadgetGuy | Valens Quinn

The 6s has certainly caught up to the specifications found on many competitor's smartphones, however, instead of rushing to be first out with megapixels, CPU cores and gigahertz, Apple has refined and perfected the 6s to really benefit from the advances, and offer a best-in-class experience.

phoneArena | Ray S.

This year's iPhone 6s manages to shake off the perception that 'S'-generation iPhones are less exciting than their "full-fledged" predecessors (or successors), and it does so by not only building upon the already strong foundation of the iPhone 6, but actually introducing radically new, thought-out, meaningful concepts.

Engadget | Chris Velazco

... the combination of iOS 9 and some well-built hardware help makes the 6s one of the best iPhones ever made... even if we wish it had some of the 6s Plus' niceties.

Australian PC World | Tony Ibrahim

The iPhone 6 was Apple's starting point; the 6s is an iPhone perfected.

Eurogamer | Damien McFerran

As ever, the iPhone 6S comes with a premium price tag, but if you're already a card-carrying Apple devotee, that won't present much of a stumbling block. On top of the excellent OS and super ergonomics, this is quite simply the most powerful smartphone money can buy.

Digital Trends | Jeffrey Van Camp

A class-leading camera and 3D Touch bring major new functionality to the gold standard in smartphones.... if you're still on an older Android phone or iPhone, this is a great upgrade. And if you want to get noticed, buy it in rose gold - the new color.

Tom's Guide | Mark Spoonauer

The iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus feature breakthrough 3D Touch displays and the fastest mobile processor yet, but the bigger Plus is the better value.

Brighthand | Ed Hardy

Excellent performance and new features like a pressure sensitive touchscreen and 12 megapixel camera help make the iPhone 6s the best phone Apple has offered yet. Still, a longer battery life would have made it even better.

news.com.au | Rod Chester

The iPhone 6S may not be the big leap that the introduction of the iPhone phablets was last time, but it does have some key features that will stand out as turning points in the tradition of the S model iPhones that have come before.

ITProPortal | Wayne Williams

The iPhone 6s is a superb phone. It's just the right size for me (I really couldn't cope with the likes of the 6s Plus), and 3D Touch has huge potential. It's not an essential feature just yet, but it likely will be once more developers embrace it. I'd have liked a better screen, and longer battery life, but the truth is I really don't have any complaints with either.

Mashable | Christina Warren

With 3D Touch, the new camera and Live Photos, the iPhone 6S is a compelling upgrade. It still feels like an iPhone 6 in the hand, but the user experience is enhanced and improved.

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.

Trusted Reviews | Andy Vandervell

Every other year Apple puts an 'S' on the end of its last phone, buffs it up with a few tarty new features and delivers it to splendid applause. The iPhone 6S is that phone this year, and it adds some clever new 'taptic' features, camera improvements and a radically faster processor to last year's iPhone 6.

Digital Spy | Matt Hill

Apple's iPhone 6S is very much a case of smartphone evolution, not revolution. Building on the strong foundations of last year's iPhone 6, this smaller sibling to the iPhone 6S Plus adds just enough improvements to stave off the rising Android onslaught, making the firm's best a fair amount better.

Wired UK | Michael Rundle and Jeremy White

If you have a model older than a 6 then this upgrade is undoubtedly worth it without any caveats. The iPhone 6s, as well as the 6s Plus with its optical image stabilization now available on video in low light, is a superb handset and even though it doesn't break away from the 6 ... it's still excellent.

AnandTech | Ryan Smith & Joshua Ho

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

BreakingNews.ie | Martyn Landi

The innovation here lies underneath: in 3D Touch, the better camera and 4K compatibility. What the 6s is, is an improvement in several key areas to the iPhone 6 – and given that the 6 and 6 Plus were the best smartphones of last year, if you're yet to upgrade from a 5 or lower, now might be the time.

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.

The Australian | Chris Griffith

The hardware is not spectacularly different, but the 6s changes the way we interact with phones. With the new 3D Touch feature, many important smartphone operations are just a tap away. It's really a great phone.

Marie Claire | Lea Goldman

the 6s is tricked out with utterly useful-and absolutely addictive-new features that once again set the bar pretty high for the category. If you are a busy person and always on the go the iPhone 6s overdelivers.

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 Sydney Morning Herald | Sam Grobart

With prodigious speed, well-thought-out interfaces, and flawless hardware-software integration, these new iPhones provide the tool for whatever it is you're doing and just let you do it. The best thing about the 6s and 6s Plus isn't all the new stuff to pay attention to, it's all the stuff you never notice.

Yahoo! Tech | David Pogue

The speed and the 3D Touch features are the meat of the upgrade. The rest is just "s" gravy, but really delicious gravy. Apple upgraded the screen, the glass, the aluminum, the processor, the camera, the WiFi circuitry, the cellular, it's definitely worth the upgrade.

USA Today | Edward C. Baig

The camera has allot of sharpness and color on pictures under all sorts of lighting conditions. The new rose gold finish model is a looker. Though not a dramatic upgrade, iOS 9 collectively adds a gaggle of useful features, notably a smarter Siri, among other things.

Buzzfeed | John Paczkowski

It's a great phone. You should probably buy it if you're considering buying an iPhone. The 3D Touch is likely the biggest innovation to the iPhone UI since the iPhone UI. Also the camera on the iPhone 6s takes better pictures than its predecessor.

The Telegraph | Rhiannon Williams

If you can justify the price, are fully committed to the iOS / OS X ecosystems and prefer the smaller end of the phablet spectrum, the iPhone 6s could well be the one for you.

Bloomberg | Sam Grobart

With prodigious speed, well-thought-out interfaces, and flawless hardware-software integration, these new iPhones provide the tool for whatever it is you're doing and just let you do it. The best thing about the 6S and 6S Plus isn't all the new stuff to pay attention to, it's all the stuff you never notice.

TechCrunch | Matthew Panzarino

Both the iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus are worth your attention and, if it's in your budget, a purchase. The camera alone is worth the price of admission - it's truly great - and the glimpse into the future of three dimensional computing is just a bonus.

Daring Fireball | John Gruber

The S models are about showing off Apple's engineering prowess. Storage capacities and battery life are unchanged from last year's iPhones. Everything else - the materials they're made from, the performance of their custom CPU/GPU, the quality of the cameras, the smoothness of the user interface - is noticeably, tangibly improved.

The Verge | Walt Mossberg

The iPhone 6S is the best smartphone out there, period. The iPhone 6S has a new, 12 megapixel rear camera which means sharper, more vivid photos. It's an evolutionary model, but with enough new core features to justify an upgrade

The Verge | Nilay Patel

There just aren't other companies that can roll out a feature like 3D Touch and make it work in a way that suggests the creation of entirely new interface paradigms, and every other phone maker needs to figure out exactly why Apple's cameras are so consistent before they can really compete.

pocketnow | Hayato Huseman

If you're someone who values customization or hardware expandability, then you're probably better suited looking towards other options from Samsung, Motorola, or LG, but if you want a phone that does most things well straight out of the box, works everywhere, and has plenty of third-party support for apps and accessories, it's really hard to go wrong with the iPhone 6s

NotebookCheck | Patrick Afschar Kaboli, Daniel Schmidt

Better is the enemy of good, which is why the Apple iPhone 6S cannot get to the top of our smartphone ranking, just like its predecessor. Nevertheless, the latest Apple smartphone is once again a great and extremely powerful piece of technology.

CNET UK | Scott Stein

The newest iPhones are top-to-bottom better phones with lots of enhancements; iPhone 6 owners don't need the upgrade, but everyone else should seriously consider it.

What Mobile | Thomas Wellburn

Apple are at a difficult point in their life. When you've been at the top for so long, people almost expect every product to innovate and break records. While the iPhone 6s definitely tries in those fields, not everything is perfect this time round.

TechPP (Technology Personalized) | Nimish Dubey

If the money is not an issue, we would recommend going for the new devices as they do offer more. However, if photography is not a passion with you and 3D touch has no geeky appeal for you, then we guess you can stay with your current devices.

Gadgets Now | Anupam Saxena

if you're looking to buy your first (or second) iPhone and want to save some cash, we feel the iPhone 6 is the perfect device offering a great window to Apple's software ecosystem and some useful features that you'll need. The same also holds true if you are looking to cross over from the Android world.... the iPhone 6S offers a great smartphone experience and the key here is consistency and stability.

TechRadar | Gareth Beavis

Apple's done what we all expected - finely balanced its 'S' phone. 3D Touch is a genuine innovation, and the phone works fluidly at nearly every task - but it's very similar to 2014's model.

OtherGadgette | Moe Thet War

Apple's history shows that the S models only have a handful of supposedly "evolutionary" but ultimately fun features compared to their predecessors... The 6s brings us 3D touch. Really, though, it's when the number changes that you should seriously consider changing phones.

IT PRO | Ingrid Fadelli, Caroline Preece, Katharine Byrne, Adam Shepherd, Nicholas Griffen, Rene Millman, Clare Hopping

It doesn't have as much stamina, but this is still a worthy successor... 3D Touch is a genuine time-saver and the improved camera and performance give it the slick, modern feel we've come to expect from Apple flagships. The phone's reduced battery life is our only major complaint.

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.

S21

The Apple iPhone 6s has a faster A9 processor, improved cameras, pressure-sensitive touchscreen, and is less prone to bending. It comes in new colour options too. As always, Apple has delivered a good product, but it's vastly over-priced.

NDTV Gadgets | Kunal Dua

With Live Photos, improved camera performance, and faster touch ID are nice - the latter being annoying as well - 3D Touch is perhaps the biggest improvement in the new iPhone models, and one that will definitely find its way to more phones in the future, and not just ones made by Apple.

V3 | Madeline Bennett

The iPhone 6S offers the same decent screen and great performance of the iPhone 6, and 3D Touch is an impressive piece of tech and a useful addition. But it's disappointing that battery life has decreased.

The Inquirer | Madeline Bennett

The iPhone 6S offers the same high-quality screen and great performance of the iPhone 6, and 3D Touch is an impressive piece of tech and a useful addition. But it's disappointing that battery life has been affected to such an extent by the Taptic Engine.

The Guardian | Samuel Gibbs

Apple's latest iPhone has a better camera, pressure sensitive 3D Touch screen, faster processor and quick fingerprint sensor, but lives fast and dies before bed

Gizmodo UK | Chris Mills

If you want or need to buy a new iPhone, buy this iPhone. Everything else aside, the faster guts will make it last longer than any other before it. 3D Touch and Live Photos are equally fantastic. But they're not reasons to upgrade from an older (but perfectly good) iPhone 6 or even 5s for that matter.

The Wall Street Journal | Joanna Stern

It is a slightly better iPhone. The battery life has not improved although to all other performance has. The 6s does offer a better camera and is more durable then it's predecessors.