My picture comparisons had been primarily between the iPhone 13 Professional, the iPhone 14, the iPhone 14 Professional, the iPhone 15, and an occasional Google Pixel 6 Professional picture for good measure. The pics I took on the iPhone 15 seemed dramatically higher than those captured on the iPhone 13 Professional — the 15 captured extra element and more true colours, had higher publicity management, and didn’t lag in any respect when capturing in lower-light settings.
Relying on the scene, it was tough to inform the distinction between photographs captured on the iPhone 14 and 14 Professional fashions (particularly the iPhone 14 Professional) and the iPhone 15 digicam. An iPhone 15 picture of a plate of wagyu beef at a dimly lit sizzling pot restaurant confirmed better dynamic vary and extra element than the identical pic taken on the iPhone 14. Throughout a sundown picture shoot at my go-to seaside, which featured a shawl of fog—San Francisco’s favourite accent—I observed that the iPhone 14 picture seemed barely extra blown out than the sundown captured on the iPhone 15. However my good friend’s iPhone 14 Professional pictures? Seemed the identical, if not higher, than my iPhone 15 #sundown pics.
The whole digicam system on the iPhone 15 does supply extra granular management over your pictures than the iPhone 14 does, even when among the ensuing photographs aren’t stunningly higher than the prior technology’s. The largest replace is that the iPhone 15 has the flexibility to seize each 24-megapixel and 48-megapixel photographs, which could be preset beneath “Decision Management” in your telephone’s digicam settings. However this function is optimized for capturing at 1X in respectable gentle, whereas in case you shoot at .5X or ultrawide, the digicam will default again to 12-megapixel captures.
The iPhone 15 now has an extra 2X optical zoom possibility; the iPhone 14 solely supplied .5 and 1X zooms. Portrait mode on the iPhone 15 could be activated mechanically when the digicam detects a portrait-worthy picture, although in my expertise, the iPhone 15 has but to deem any of my topics worthy of portraiture. Additionally, in Portrait mode, now you can management the depth of the picture and zoom out to seize much more information from the scene. That is admittedly a pleasant function add.
Nonetheless, actual images nerds are going to wish to go greater.
Dancing Queen, iOS 17
All new iPhones are going to ship working iOS 17, and—excellent news—your previous iPhone can now run it too. We’ve assembled a round-up of our top features, together with my new favourite, transcribed voice notes in messages, and improved autocorrect, which allowed me to write down “f*cking A!” to my editor in Slack and didn’t change it to “ducking.”
StandBy mode additionally turns your iPhone into a wise pill of types if you flip it on its facet, lock it, and prop it up on a appropriate charging dock.
I’d be remiss if I didn’t point out Dynamic Island, which is as a lot of a {hardware} function as it’s a software program function, due to the way in which Apple reengineers the front-facing digicam module to make Dynamic Island work. This was beforehand out there on iPhone 14 Professional telephones, and now it’s on the 15. It’s principally a widget. However a stay, clickable one. It makes use of that actual property on the prime of the telephone to indicate you what track is taking part in on Spotify, your timer countdowns, the standing of your Uber journey. My expertise with Dynamic Island was restricted earlier than utilizing the iPhone 15, and I’m shocked to say I form of find it irresistible.
OK, love is a powerful phrase. Nobody ought to actually love a telephone. I just like the iPhone 15. Let’s go away it at that.
Replace, September 19 at midday EDT: The story was up to date to right some worth and mannequin quantity info for older iPhones that was incorrect.
