What I Want in the iPhone 14: New Design Tweaks, USB-C and MorI

The iPhone 13 and 13 Professional sit among the many finest telephones you should purchase in 2022, due to the lineup’s very good all-around efficiency and digicam abilities. However, Apple could possibly 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 just a few potential design and digicam updates (possibly even an upgraded selfie digicam). 

Though Apple’s subsequent iPhone virtually actually will not debut till this fall (here is every thing you must learn about its rumored launch date, worth and new design), I believed it was value getting my want checklist in early to offer 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 below 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 goal, housing because it does the front-facing digicam and the assorted 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 screen that is lower away. So it is time for a greater answer that lets that display screen actually shine. 

Maybe Apple might excellent under-display cameras which might be there however primarily invisible. We have seen that already on telephones from ZTE and Vivo, however the know-how 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, retaining the show unbroken. 

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

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 screen, let’s pop a fingerprint scanner underneath there too. Apple’s Face ID works effectively for probably the most half, or at the very least it did earlier than the pandemic hit. Sporting masks in public is a way more frequent incidence 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 sporting a masks due to the iOS replace, I feel Apple ought to nonetheless carry again fingerprint scanning.

In-screen scanning know-how is frequent 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 had been as soon as on the again or aspect of the cellphone. It is not a step backward to place this know-how in — it could merely be acknowledging that possibly the world wants a unique answer to what we had earlier than — which might be mentioned of so many issues.

A much bigger zoom and bigger sensor for iPhone 14’s digicam

The iPhone 13 Professional digicam is excellent, taking lovely pictures within the daylight and capturing vibrant, sharp photographs in the midst of the evening. It is the most effective cameras you’ll find on a cellphone, however I am a photographer, so naturally I will demand extra.

The primary factor I would like here’s a greater 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 atmosphere, for getting up shut on these particulars that will merely be misplaced should you took your shot with a large angle lens. Even the 4x zoom on Google’s new Pixel 6 Professional was sufficient of a bounce to permit for extra telephoto-style pictures. 

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 an excellent greater 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 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 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 completely different cable for once I wish 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 according to the remainder of the trade feels about as possible as asking giraffes to possibly strive having shorter necks like the remainder of us, OK? You too, swans. Donkeys, you are positive, you have obtained sufficient occurring.

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

A foldable iPhone 14

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

However Apple has an honest monitor document of taking an present innovation and truly discovering a solution to make it work effectively 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 principally the one pill that issues. And I like foldable telephones. They’re enjoyable and so they permit a giant display screen that is nice for movies and picture modifying to fold in half and be way more pocket pleasant. 

So I would like to see Apple’s tackle this style of machine and see what its staff would do with a product that is midway between an iPhone and an iPad. Possibly 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 only some 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 high 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, take a look at all of the iPhone 14 rumors we have heard to date together with its launch date and worth. You may as well check out one of the best options in iOS 15.5. Plus, we break down the finest iPhones you should purchase proper now.