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Apple’s i Phone 18 Pro has a dynamic-aperture main camera
The i Phone 18 Pro and 18 Pro Max have powerful new camera features.
The i Phone 18 Pro and 18 Pro Max have powerful new camera features.
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Apple announced the i Phone 18 Pro and i Phone 18 Pro Max at its event on Wednesday. The 18 Pro and Pro Max come in deep black, silver, “glacier,” and burgundy, with color-matched back glass. They also have a new A20 Pro chip and purportedly the longest battery in an i Phone. The i Phone 18 Pro starts at
During Wednesday’s presentation, Apple highlighted how the new phones are well-equipped to work with Apple Intelligence and Siri AI, including Siri AI’s more expressive voices.
The A20 Pro has a “brand new architecture” built on 2nm technology, like Apple’s M6 chip. It has a 6 core CPU with 2 “desktop-class” super cores and 4 efficiency cores. It also has a “significantly advanced” GPU with a 7 core design that enables a “40 percent” increase in performance, according to Sribalan Santhanam, VP of Apple’s silicon engineering group. Apple has also added a second neural engine for a total of 32 NPU cores.
In addition, the i Phone 18 Pro has a “next-generation vapor chamber” with three times the surface area as the one in the 17 Pro to help cool the phone. The i Phone 18 Pro has all-day battery life comparable to the i Phone 17 Pro Max, according to Rich Dinh, VP of hardware engineering. Video playback is 36 hours for the i Phone 18 Pro, and the 18 Pro Max gets 45 hours. Apple says just 15 minutes of wired charging provides 6 hours of video playback for the i Phone 18 Pro.
The i Phone 18 Pro also offers the “biggest camera improvement in years,” including a 48 megapixel variable aperture main camera, with 6 blades “thinner than a human hair.” In darker environments, the aperture opens up to let in more light, which means that night mode captures will be faster with better quality, Apple says. As for video, you can now take 4K resolution time-lapse videos in Dolby Vision HDR.
Apple is also offering “pro controls” to give you more manual control over your camera, like changing shutter speed to tweak motion blur. Pro controls are available for both photos and videos. There are improvements to photographic styles, offering texture and grain control. And Apple will support Google’s Synth ID content authenticity protocol, as well as a new “Apple Reference Image” standard.
A smaller Dynamic Island on the i Phone 18 Pro line can now show three Live Activities.
Apple is introducing the i Phone 18 Pro and Pro Max at its first event with John Ternus as CEO. He replaced Tim Cook on September 1st, with Cook moving into an executive chairman role on Apple’s board.
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