Apple announces the iPhone 16 Pro

Apple announced nan iPhone 16 Pro lineup astatine Monday’s merchandise event.

The company’s caller flagship smartphones person somewhat bigger screens crossed some models: 6.3 inches connected nan iPhone 16 Pro and 6.9 inches connected nan iPhone 16 Pro Max (up from 6.1 inches and 6.7 inches, respectively, connected nan iPhone 15 Pro and 15 Pro Max). The bodies of nan phones are erstwhile again made from titanium. It comes successful 4 colors: black, white, natural, and a caller “desert titanium.” Apple besides claims that nan iPhone 16 Pro Max has “the champion iPhone artillery life ever.”

The iPhone 16 Pro lineup comes pinch nan A18 Pro chip, pinch a 16-core Neural Engine that it says will connection “amazing performance” for Apple Intelligence features, including 15 percent faster capacity than nan iPhone 15 Pro. It besides has improved graphics capacity acknowledgment to a 6-core GPU that’s 20 percent faster than nan iPhone 15 Pro’s A17 Pro.

The iPhone 16 Pro has a 48MP “fusion camera,” a caller 48MP ultrawide camera, and a 12MP 5x telephoto camera — which, connected nan regular iPhone 16 Pro, has nan tetraprism creation that was exclusive to nan iPhone 15 Pro Max. The iPhone 16 lineup besides has nan caller Camera Control fastener to nan iPhone 16 lineup, and Apple says that arsenic portion of a package update later this year, nan fastener will get a two-stage shutter. Apple is introducing caller photograph styles, and you tin alteration nan styles successful your photos aft you return nan picture.

The iPhone 16 Pro will besides beryllium capable to seizure 4K video astatine 120fps, and you tin set playback velocity aft seizure successful nan Photos app.

Apple is besides touting improved audio hardware connected nan iPhone 16 Pro, including 4 “studio quality” mics. You’ll besides beryllium capable to seizure spatial audio erstwhile signaling spatial video.

Apple is launching these caller phones arsenic it makes a push into AI pinch its Apple Intelligence features, immoderate of which are group to beryllium disposable successful beta successful October. (The institution claims that each of its caller iPhones this twelvemonth person been designed “for nan crushed up” for Apple Intelligence.) Like different tech companies, AI is simply a large attraction for Apple this year, and nan institution already showed disconnected respective AI-powered devices astatine its most caller Worldwide Developers Conference, including an upgraded Siri and integration pinch OpenAI’s ChatGPT.

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