

Apple has expanded the software suite for the camera somewhat to offer improved low-light performance across all the cameras on the phone.

The wide-angle camera on the back of the iPhone 14 has a larger sensor and a faster aperture, and it promises 49 percent better low-light photo performance than its predecessor. The main practical benefit from those improvements is that the camera should have better low-light performance. It’s not much of a jump (and we didn't notice it) but hey, we’ll take what we can get since few things are more important than battery life.Īs for photo quality, we’ll look at some comparison shots in the camera section of this review, but here’s the quick rundown: there’s a new front-facing, TrueDepth camera with a faster aperture and support for autofocus.

Whereas the iPhone 13 advertises up to 19 hours of video playback, the iPhone 14 promises up to 20. The iPhone 14’s most important advantages over the iPhone 13 are in battery life and photo quality. It also has the same system-on-a-chip (SoC), the A15, so it offers identical performance, though the thermals are reportedly a little better for sustained performance, and there's a tweak that should slightly improve graphics performance, too. It has the same design and, at least at launch, the same feature set. The iPhone 14 is barely a step up over 2021’s iPhone 13. Most of the review will discuss the 14 Pro and 14 Pro Max, but we’ll discuss the regular 14 briefly in its own section here, and we’ll assess the phones together in the performance and cameras section of the review. Still among the best smartcameras you can buyīecause the iPhone 14 is such a modest year-over-year update, we’ve lumped it in with the 14 Pro in this review.The Dynamic Island (if you really want to call it that).
