iPhone 16 Ruler
Actual size, on screen

What fits on the iPhone 16 screen – and what doesn't

• an index card (long side, 3×5)127 mm / 5.00 infits in one go (14.1 mm to spare)
• a 4×6 photo (short side)101.6 mm / 4.00 infits in one go (39.5 mm to spare)
• a playing card (long side)88.9 mm / 3.50 infits in one go (52.2 mm to spare)
• a CD case (long side)142 mm / 5.59 in0.9 mm too long – measure in 2 passes
• a 4×6 photo (long side)152.4 mm / 6.00 in11.3 mm too long – measure in 2 passes
• a US dollar bill (long side)155.96 mm / 6.14 in14.8 mm too long – measure in 2 passes

The iPhone 16 screen in numbers

• The screen is 141.1 mm (5.56 in) tall – 5.8 quarters laid end to end
• 1.65 times the long side of a credit card (85.6 mm)
• There are 181 physical pixels in every centimetre, 460 in every inch
• The finest 1 mm tick is 18.1 pixels apart

Compared with nearby models

Screen height compared with the iPhone 16 (65.1 × 141.1 mm).

• iPhone 15 Plus2023 · 71.2 × 154.4 mm13.3 mm taller
• iPhone 15 Pro Max2023 · 71.2 × 154.4 mm13.3 mm taller
• iPhone 16 Plus2024 · 71.2 × 154.4 mm13.3 mm taller
• iPhone 16 Pro2024 · 66.6 × 144.8 mm3.6 mm taller

Models with the exact same scale

• iPhone 14 Pro
• iPhone 15
• iPhone 15 Pro

How this ruler stays true to size

The iPhone 16 packs 460 pixels into every inch and draws 3 physical pixels per CSS pixel, so one millimetre is 6.04 CSS px. The ticks are rebuilt from that number and the live pixel ratio each time the page opens, which is why no calibration is needed on this model. The right side of the strip is metric (mm/cm) and the left side is inches in 1/16 steps; 1 inch = 25.4 mm.

If the ticks look off (display zoom or font-size settings change the ratio), hold a credit card against the screen – its long side is 85.6 mm – and use the card calibration. The calibration tool and the full device list are in Japanese, but the controls are simple: pick card or coin, drag to match. 日本語版はこちら.