My High 5 Needs for Apple’s iPhone 14: New Design Tweaks, USB-C and Extra

The iPhone 13 and 13 Professional sit among the many greatest telephones you should purchase in 2022, because of the lineup’s very good all-around efficiency and digital camera abilities. However, Apple might be bumping up the specs and possibly altering up the iPhone’s look later this 12 months. Rumor has it that Apple’s iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Professional are on their means with a couple of attainable design and digital camera updates (possibly even an upgraded selfie digital camera). 

Though Apple’s subsequent iPhone virtually actually will not debut till this fall (this is the whole lot you need to find out about its rumored launch date, value and new design), I assumed it was value getting my want record 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 specific order then, listed here are my prime hopes for the iPhone 14.

No notch on the iPhone 14

The notch. It has to go. Sure, it is served its function, housing because it does the front-facing digital camera and the varied scanners to allow you to unlock your cellphone simply by it. And whereas the notch did get barely smaller on the iPhone 13, it is nonetheless a giant chunk of display that is minimize away. So it is time for a greater resolution that lets that display actually shine. 

Maybe Apple may excellent under-display cameras which can be there however basically 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, conserving the show unbroken. 

I would 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. 

Learn extra: iPhone 14 Would possibly Kill the Notch, however Just for the Professional

In-screen fingerprint scanner in addition to Face ID

Talking of issues hidden within the display, let’s pop a fingerprint scanner beneath there too. Apple’s Face ID works properly for probably the most half, or not less than it did earlier than the pandemic hit. Sporting masks in public is a way more frequent prevalence than it was previous to the pandemic, and earlier than the discharge of iOS 15.4 in March, face unlock merely did not work with out additionally pairing up with an Apple Watch. Though now you can unlock your iPhone whereas carrying a masks because of the iOS replace, I feel Apple ought to nonetheless deliver again fingerprint scanning.

In-screen scanning expertise is frequent now, with inexpensive 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 facet of the cellphone. It isn’t a step backward to place this expertise in — it could merely be acknowledging that possibly the world wants a distinct resolution to what we had earlier than — which could be stated of so many issues.

A much bigger zoom and bigger sensor for iPhone 14’s digital camera

The iPhone 13 Professional digital camera is excellent, taking lovely photos within the daylight and capturing shiny, sharp photographs in the course of the evening. It is the most effective cameras yow will discover on a cellphone, however I am a photographer, so naturally I’ll demand extra.

The primary 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 in opposition to the Samsung Galaxy S22 Extremely‘s whopping 10x zoom. Zoom lenses are very good instruments for locating attention-grabbing compositions in your surroundings, for getting up shut on these particulars that will merely be misplaced in the event 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 digital camera, I am all the time eager to see total enhancements in high quality. So let’s additionally slap a fair larger picture sensor in there — possibly 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 era of digital camera improve we have had, the much less I must take my digital camera out with me. 

Perhaps with the iPhone 14 I can simply promote my DSLR and shoot solely on my cellphone.

USB-C charging to exchange 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 machine on my desk I must discover a totally different cable for once I need to cost it. All my Android assessment 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 huge 32-pin connector first seen on the iPod and that was a ache, too. So anticipating Apple to step in keeping with the remainder of the business feels about as probably as asking giraffes to possibly strive having shorter necks like the remainder of us, OK? You too, swans. Donkeys, you are superb, you have received sufficient happening.

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

A foldable iPhone 14

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

However Apple has an honest monitor file of taking an present innovation and truly discovering a approach to make it work properly sufficient to have an effect in our lives. Apple did not invent tablets, however the iPad was the primary one that basically 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 enable a giant display that is nice for movies and picture modifying to fold in half and be rather more pocket pleasant. 

So I would like to see Apple’s tackle this style of machine and see what its group would do with a product that is midway between an iPhone and an iPad. Perhaps not because the solely cellphone it launches, however possibly as an extra one, known as the iPhone 14 Fold that sits above the iPhone 14 Professional. And whereas there are just a few foldable iPhone rumors to recommend that it will ever be an actual factor, I would put good cash on a working Apple folding cellphone idea sitting someplace proper now deep down in its analysis labs on that spaceship campus. 

However these are my prime 5 issues I would 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. 

For extra, try all of the iPhone 14 rumors we have heard to this point together with its launch date and value. You may also check out the most effective options in iOS 15.5. Plus, we break down the greatest iPhones you should purchase proper now.