Apple Unveils the iPhone 16 With an Extra Button, Bigger Screen, and Apple Intelligence

If determination are 2 things Apple thinks its iPhone fans like, its large screens and camera tricks. Apple yet pulled the expanse disconnected its upcoming iPhone 16, iPhone 16 Plus, iPhone 16 Pro, and iPhone 16 Pro Max phones astatine its neon-streaked Glowtime event connected Monday. While the Pro models are larger than they’ve ever been, the header diagnostic is simply a carnal “camera control” fastener that’s expected to beryllium a small much versatile than conscionable utilizing the measurement fastener to drawback pics.

Oh, but possibly determination are 3 things Apple thinks its fans enjoy. Those long-promised AI features, dubbed Apple Intelligence, returned astatine Glowtime. Some of those antecedently touted intelligence features volition usage camera control. The iPhone 16 should beryllium the telephone to header galore of these caller AI integrations, though customers who pre-ordered the telephone successful clip for the September merchandise volition inactive request to hold astatine slightest different period to get ChatGPT connected their phones.

The iPhone 16 lineup looks a spot similar the iPhone 15—save for the pill-shaped camera array connected the basal models—but this time, the Pro exemplary is simply a bigger beast than the basal iPhone. While the regular iPhone 16 has a 6.1-inch show and the iPhone 16 Plus has a 6.7-inch screen, the Pros present athletics a 6.3-inch, and the Pro Max is 6.9 inches. Sure, the Google Pixel 9 Pro changed up surface sizes with an XL version, but Apple seems to deliberation its customers privation much surface existent estate, period.

A bevy of caller colors are disposable for pre-order, including the rumored ugly brownish “gold titanium” color archetypal hinted astatine successful leaks past month. The regular iPhone 16 besides comes successful green, pink, blue, and achromatic shades. More than anything, it seems Apple’s promoting many of the aforesaid hardware tweaks with the basal iPhone 16 and the Pro models, though the much costly phones are going to athletics other camera capabilities similar 4K slow-mo astatine 120 FPS. 

How Does the Camera Control Button Work connected iPhone 16?

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Apple has made a large accumulation retired of the “shot connected iPhone’ schtick with erstwhile iPhone releases (though, of course, with thousands of dollars of other instrumentality and post-processing). The woody present is that you’ll really consciousness similar a lensman with immoderate of the other buttons connected the iPhone 16. This takes the signifier of a low-profile power connected the close broadside of your phone. You usage it to motorboat the Photos app, instrumentality a picture, oregon adjacent swipe done a fewer rudimentary camera controls. Finally, Apple’s brought that “taptic” button it couldn’t marque enactment connected the iPhone 15.

With a airy press, you tin agleam up immoderate controls similar zoom oregon exposure. A afloat property volition really instrumentality a photo. It’s not precisely similar a DSLR, wherever a fractional property locks the exposure, and a afloat click volition drawback the pic. However, successful a aboriginal update Apple promises it volition adhd a two-stage shutter to fastener absorption and exposure. That volition beryllium beauteous significant, and it feels similar an evident summation that those who preorder volition miss retired connected astatine first. Apple besides said it would let it to beryllium utilized successful third-party photograph apps specified arsenic Kino.

The cameras are each receiving immoderate insignificant upgrades nary substance if the sensors are arranged vertically oregon successful a triangle. 

The Pro models volition spot an improved ultrawide lens from the erstwhile 12 MP to a 48 MP sensor. The Pro’s periscope lens present allows for a 5x optical zoom, aforesaid arsenic the Pro Max. If that’s not enough, Apple says the Pro models tin present grounds 4K astatine 120 FPS, allowing for 60 FPS, 30 FPS, oregon a lower-frame 24 FPS slow-mo video effect. A caller “Audio Mix” diagnostic connected the Pro versions allows editors to marque immoderate tiny adjustments to dependable aft they grounds it.

For those who hoped to spot Spatial Videos connected a basal iPhone, the regular 16s support them connected their caller stacked camera setup. However, if you already spent $3,500 connected a Vision Pro, you tin crook immoderate regular representation oregon adjacent artwork into a faux-3D Spatial representation present with VisionOS 2.

What Will iOS 18 Software Look Like connected iPhone 16?

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Apple upgraded the iPhone 16 and 16 Plus phones with the A17 Bionic from past year’s iPhone 15 Pro. As expected, the engineers astatine the extremity of 1 Infinite Loop person shoved an A18 Bionic spot successful the iPhone 16 Pro and Pro Max. If you privation amended graphics processing, you’d opt for a instrumentality with the A18 Pro Bionic spot that comes with other GPU cores and enactment for ProMotion and always-on displays. The 6-core Pro mentation besides comes with a 16-core NPU that could grip immoderate inheritance AI tasks a spot better. Either way, they should beryllium marginally much businesslike and almighty than the iPhone 15’s A16 Bionic.

The different payment of the caller iPhones is the accrued RAM, which present stands astatine 8 GB compared to the erstwhile 6 GB connected the iPhone 15. That’s mostly to assistance powerfulness the AI features.

Each telephone is meant to enactment iOS 18 close retired of the box. However, galore of the promised Apple Intelligence generative AI features are inactive getting immoderate clip to bake successful Tim Cook’s crowded baking ovens. First connected that database is ChatGPT integration, which is coming “later this year.” In addition, “later this year,” Apple volition let Camera Control to propulsion up Apple Intelligence features similar a Google Lens-like hunt with the photos users take. The diagnostic could besides adhd events to users’ calendars oregon hunt for places to bargain immoderate you’re presently model buying for. 

If you haven’t tried retired the iOS 18 beta, it offers immoderate extra customization options for the location screen, enactment for RCS, and dozens of different small quality-of-life improvements. Combined with the remainder of Apple’s OS slate we expect to driblet this month, determination volition beryllium a fewer caller features for each iPhone owners, careless of whether you bargain the newfangled iPhone 16 conscionable for AI and a peculiar camera button.

While we were expecting iPhone 16 to motorboat with the fabled ChatGPT integration, that’s seemingly inactive not coming until aboriginal this year, arsenic precocious arsenic October according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. Live telephone transcriptions and Magic Eraser-like representation editing tools should get aboriginal this year, according to Apple. Even the touted AI representation generator titled “Image Playground” that the Cupertino institution showed disconnected astatine WWDC 2024 won’t beryllium successful clip for the iPhone 16’s release.