Hey Apple, this is what I need to see on the iPhone 14

The iPhone 13 and 13 Professional are among the many finest telephones it is potential to purchase in 2022 due to their nice all-round efficiency and excellent digicam abilities. However being the impatient, demanding tech addict that I’m, I’ve already set my sights on the rumored iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Professional. We virtually actually will not see these telephones till this coming fall, however I assumed it was value getting my wishlist in early to provide Apple the time it must put all of my concepts into motion. As a result of that is the way it works, proper?

In no explicit order then, listed here are my high hopes for the iPhone 14.

No notch on the iPhone 14

The notch. It has to go. Sure, it is served its objective, housing because it does the front-facing digicam and the assorted scanners to allow you to unlock your telephone simply by taking a look at it. And whereas the notch did get barely smaller on the iPhone 13, it is nonetheless an enormous chunk of display screen that is lower away. So it is time for a greater resolution that lets that display screen actually shine. 

Maybe Apple may excellent under-display cameras which are there however primarily invisible. We have seen that already on telephones from ZTE and Vivo, however the expertise is much from excellent. Then there are the bizarre pop-up selfie cameras seen on some Oppo telephones that spring up from the highest edge, holding the show unbroken. 

I might even compromise with a easy punch-hole resolution, filling the entrance with the show however simply popping a few small, much less obtrusive holes for the cameras to peep by way of. 

In-screen fingerprint scanner in addition to Face ID

Talking of issues hidden within the display screen, let’s pop a fingerprint scanner beneath there too. Apple’s Face ID works nicely for probably the most half, or a minimum of it did earlier than the pandemic hit. Now, with sporting masks in public a way more widespread incidence in each day life, face unlock merely would not work with out additionally pairing up with an Apple Watch. I do not need it to go away altogether, however let’s deliver again fingerprint scanning for these instances when our faces are hidden.

In-screen scanning expertise is widespread now, with reasonably priced telephones from OnePlus invisibly hiding scanners into the show of their telephones and I discover that they work just about in addition to bodily scanners that have been as soon as on the again or aspect of the telephone. It isn’t a step backward to place this expertise in — it might merely be acknowledging that perhaps the world wants a distinct resolution to what we had earlier than — which will be stated of so many issues.

An even bigger zoom and bigger sensor for iPhone 14’s digicam

The iPhone 13 Professional digicam is excellent, taking stunning photos within the daylight and capturing vibrant, sharp photographs in the midst of the night time. It is among the best cameras you will discover on a telephone, however I am a photographer, so naturally I’ll demand extra.

The principle factor I would like here’s a larger zoom. Sure, Apple upped the zoom stage to 3x with the iPhone 13 Professional, however that also pales towards the Samsung Galaxy S21 Extremely‘s whopping 10x zoom. Zoom lenses are excellent instruments for locating attention-grabbing compositions in your surroundings, for getting up shut on these particulars that might merely be misplaced in case you took your shot with a large angle lens. Even the 4x zoom on Google’s new Pixel 6 Professional was sufficient of a soar to permit for extra telephoto-style photos. 

However whereas we’re on the digicam, I am all the time eager to see total enhancements in high quality. So let’s additionally slap a good larger picture sensor in there — perhaps a 1-inch dimension as we have seen on Sony’s current Xperia Professional I, or hell, let’s go APS-C or full body, if we’re dreaming. The larger the sensor, the higher the general picture high quality and with every technology of digicam improve we have had, the much less I must take my digicam out with me. 

Possibly with the iPhone 14 I can simply promote my DSLR and shoot solely on my telephone.

USB-C charging to interchange Lightning

Apple has adopted USB-C for nearly all of its merchandise now from the iPads to the MacBooks to the AirPods. The iPhone nonetheless makes use of Apple’s legacy Lightning port, which makes it the one gadget on my desk I must discover a completely different cable for once I need to cost it. All my Android evaluate telephones, my tablets and even my mouse and keyboard plug into my USB-C energy cables and the iPhone feels considerably outdated consequently.

However Apple has all the time had its personal methods of charging. When everybody else was utilizing Micro-USB, Apple had that large 32-pin connector first seen on the iPod and that was a ache, too. So anticipating Apple to step according to the remainder of the business feels about as possible as asking giraffes to perhaps strive having shorter necks like the remainder of us, OK? You too, swans. Donkeys, you are advantageous, you have bought sufficient occurring.

However what I do not need is for Apple to take away the port fully, which was rumored when it launched MagSafe charging. As a result of then, I nonetheless want a devoted charging cable. Plus MagSafe fees slower than the Lightning cable and would not at present assist knowledge switch. You see, it would not work. So USB-C it’s. Thanks. Within the meantime, a minimum of I could make use of any USB-C to Lightning cable to get a minimum of half of the comfort I am in search of.

A foldable iPhone 14

Foldable telephones have been the most important bodily design revolution we have seen in telephones since mainly the appearance of the smartphone. However they’ve not likely caught on — presumably due to their excessive costs but in addition presumably as a result of they only do not actually supply a compelling cause to utilize that fold. 

However Apple has an honest monitor document of taking an present innovation and really discovering a method to make it work nicely sufficient to have an effect in our lives. Apple did not invent tablets, however the iPad was the primary one that actually confirmed how helpful they are often, and now it is mainly the one pill that issues. And I like foldable telephones. They’re enjoyable they usually permit an enormous display screen that is nice for movies and photograph enhancing to fold in half and be far more pocket pleasant. 

So I might like to see Apple’s tackle this style of gadget and see what its workforce would do with a product that is midway between an iPhone and an iPad. Possibly not because the solely telephone it launches, however perhaps as a further one, known as the iPhone 14 Fold that sits above the iPhone 14 Professional. And whereas there are only some foldable iPhone rumors to counsel that this can ever be an actual factor, I might put good cash on a working Apple folding telephone idea sitting someplace proper now deep down in its analysis labs on that spaceship campus. 

However these are my high 5 issues I might prefer to see from the iPhone 14. A few of them are extra credible than others however who is aware of what the rumors will level to over the approaching months.