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inch Super Retina XDR display featuring Always-On and ProMotion. Dynamic Island, a magical new way to interact with iPhone. 48MP main camera for up to 4x greater resolution. Use Cinematic mode now in 4K Dolby Vision up to 30 fps and Action mode for smooth, steady handheld videos. Made With Recycled Materials, Arsenic Free Display, Mercury Free Display, Free of Brominated Flame Retardants, PVC Free, Beryllium Free The price has gone up, which you’d expect in the current climate, but not by swingeing levels, and Apple has introduced a handful of fairly significant usability and safety improvements including Dynamic Island, the Always-On display, crash detection and SOS via satellite (although only in the US and Canada right now). The ultrawide camera exhibits slightly less of a dramatic improvement but there it is better, especially in low light where it captures slightly crisper, cleaner and less noisy images. It’s the new selfie camera that exhibits the least benefit, however, though the ability to autofocus should improve the ratio of hits to misses over time. Of course, the big new thing this year is that the old bathtub notch has been removed and replaced by two, more space-efficient cutouts: one for the infrared projector and camera and the other for the new selfie camera. The 14 Pro’s screen surrounds them above, below and in-between.

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iPhone 14 Pro Max. Pro. Beyond. All Systems Pro. Capture incredible detail with a 48MP main camera. Experience iPhone in a whole new way with Dynamic Island and Always-On display. Introducing Dynamic Island, a truly Apple innovation that's hardware and software and something in between. It bubbles up music, FaceTime and so much more - all without taking you away from what you're doing. A16 Bionic, the ultimate smartphone chip. Superfast 5G cellular. One thing to get out of the way early doors is that the 48MP sensor doesn’t produce 48MP images by default. Instead, like most other smartphones that employ high-resolution sensors, Apple uses pixel binning, combining four pixels into one to reduce the resolution to 12MP and, in theory, producing superior image quality. You can judge for yourself by the samples below but the difference in most circumstances is minimal. In good light, I noticed the iPhone 14 Pro captured colours that looked a touch less yellow and more neutral but detail levels in good light and low light seemed to be largely the same. There are other changes, too. The sensor-shift optical image stabilisation system is now into its second generation. Apple says it has improved the way it processes low- and mid-light images, by applying its “Deep Fusion” tech further up the imaging pipeline.

In many ways, this makes it the very epitome of an iterative Apple iPhone release. It’s boring, yes, and expensive of course but the iPhone 14 Pro is, inevitably, the best iPhone Apple has released so far.

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It’s a small thing, quite literally, but it soon feels utterly natural in day-to-day use and although it doesn’t have a huge impact on usability, there’s a palpable sense of delight the first few times you see it in action. Elsewhere, the display is thoroughly brilliant. It’s colour accurate, with an impressive Delta E of 1 versus sRGB, and it looks absolutely phenomenal when playing HDR video material, whether that be home movies shot on the iPhone’s Dolby Vision rear cameras or Dolby Vision TV shows on Disney Plus. What’s perhaps more interesting is that Snapdragon-based smartphones are finally catching up when it comes to GPU performance. If not CPU speeds, where – slightly embarrassingly – the iPhone 12 Pro is still faster than the fastest Android has to offer. This is presumably why Apple isn’t too worried about leaving the non-Pro iPhone 14 on the A15 Bionic this year – it’s still perfectly fast for most people. Camera features: 48MP Main, 12MP Ultra Wide, 12MP 2x Telephoto, 12MP 3x Telephoto, Adaptive True Tone flash, Photonic Engine, Deep Fusion, Smart HDR 4, Portrait mode with advanced bokeh and Depth Control, Portrait Lighting with six effects, Night mode.What Apple hasn’t done this year – again – is introduce USB-C charging, with the iPhone 14 Pro still featuring a Lightning connector on its bottom edge. The much-rumoured Touch ID sensor hasn’t materialised, either, while in Europe and the UK we still get a SIM tray. Only US users are losing that this year. Apple says the A16 Bionic also brings 50% more memory bandwidth than the A15 Bionic, which supposedly helps with GPU performance, while a revamped ISP (image signal processor) enables improved camera performance (see above). In the various benchmarking tools we use, the A16 Bionic delivers better results across the board but there’s nothing out of the ordinary here. Last year’s A15 Bionic delivered similar improvements in both GPU and CPU-related tasks, as did the A14 Bionic before that. Battery life hasn’t improved, per se, but it hasn’t at least got worse. In our video test, which we run with the phone in flight mode and the screen set to a brightness level of 170cd/m2, it lasted a respectable 20hrs 40mins. Give or take a minute, this is the same as the iPhone 13 Pro last year. The Always on Display doesn’t appear to have an impact on real-world battery life, either. I haven’t admittedly been using the phone very long but initial impressions indicate that it’ll easily last a day and more with moderate use. Proximity Sensor, Accelerometer (G-Sensor), Barometer, Gyroscope Sensor, Magnetometer, Light Sensor

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The iPhone 14 Pro comes, as you’d expect, with a new Apple chipset inside and this – the A16 Bionic – delivers performance gains that are precisely in line with previous iPhone iterations. It’s a hexa-core processor with a pair of performance cores running at 3.5GHz and four efficiency cores running at up to 2GHz and is built on a 4nm fabrication process. LiDAR-Scanner, Ultra Wideband (UWB), Wi-Fi 6 (ax), Optical Zoom, Mobile Communications Standard 5G, 120Hz Display More than that, though, it can even display wallpaper or photographs from your library in full screen and it will dim and brighten depending on the ambient light, keeping it just bright enough to be visible. In some images, however, it did seem that the new “Photonic Engine” processing had made a difference. In the below image of the church, for example, the iPhone 14 Pro has far more detail in the grass in the foreground. You see the biggest difference when you capture your images in ProRAW format. To do this, you need to enable the feature in the camera’s settings menu, then tap the RAW toggle button in the camera app before taking a photograph. In this mode, the camera captures full-res 48MP images and the difference in detail capture is simply stunning – just look at the close-up comparisons below – the ProRAW image, processed in Photoshop, has a huge amount more fine detail than the 12MP image shot in default mode. Even after resizing the 48MP image down to 12MP there’s still a huge amount more detail in the ProRAW image. The only negative is that the images do occupy much more space in your iPhone’s storage – at around 73MB per photograph in ProRAW versus a mere 1.4MB – and you’ll only get the most out of them if you process them yourself carefully but if you don’t mind doing that, then I can’t imagine shooting in any other way on the iPhone 14 Pro. READ NEXT: Our full round-up of the best smartphones available Apple iPhone 14 Pro review: Dynamic Island and Always-On displayThis doesn’t turn your iPhone into an action camera, of course (it’s not tough enough for that) and the GoPro can deliver its ultra-smooth video at the much higher resolution of 5.3K 60fps whereas the iPhone 14 Pro is capped at 2.8K 60fps. However, it’s an impressive feat nonetheless and the fact that it records in Dolby Vision HDR means as long as it’s viewed on a suitable screen, your video will look absolutely stunning. Apple iPhone 14 Pro review: Performance Given how much work must have gone into the Dynamic Island and Always-On display, you might have forgiven Apple for leaving the display improvements at that. But that isn’t the case here, with Apple beefing up HDR courtesy of increased maximum brightness. Note that the newer version of this phone, the iPhone 15 Pro Max, is now available. Expensive = Better?