In fact, this year we would have the biggest difference between the nonpro and the Pro models. And in this article, I want to cover ten big we leagues that have just come out.
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The Always On Display Has Been Revealed
Number one, the always-on display has been revealed for iPhone 14. So we heard about always on functionality coming to the promoters for a long time now.
Ross Young was the first to report that the iPhone 14 Pros will be dropping from a 10 Hz refresh rate to a 1 Hz refresh rate, essentially allowing Apple to add always-on functionality to the 14 Pro. Mark German has reported on this too, that Apple will be adding always-on functionality to the 14 Pro models.
But for the first time ever, the always-on functionality has been revealed and demoed. In Xcode 14 beta four, macromers writer Steve Moser found that there is actually a functional always-on-display mode in the latest beta of Xcode. This is visible if you open up the iOS simulator.
So for the most part, the always-on display is just a dimmed version of the lock screen. As we were all expecting for iPhone 14.
It seems like that whale widget gets less detailed in the always-on mode, so it kind of resembles the way it works on the Apple Watch, where it keeps the same watch face and it simply just dims it and simplifies it. But okay, how could Apple be so careless? How could they have missed such a big, unannounced feature being present in the latest Xcode beta? Well, Steve Ozzie also shared a video.
Now, if you play back this video in real-time, you won’t notice anything weird happening, but the moment you slow it down, that is when you’ll notice that before the iPhone 14 wakes up, you have a different mode, a mode in which the widgets and the text are fully white without a lot of detail.
So this is indeed a separate display mode, which is this new always-on functionality. So this is likely the reason why Apple missed it, because it was something that was really hard to see, and I don’t think it should have been present in this version of Xcode.
Another Twitter user found the same thing in Xcode 14 beta four. So Steve was not the only one. In fact, 95 Mac also found a few references in the iOS 16 beta regarding sleep states for wallpapers.
The sleep states essentially being a darker version and a unicorn version of the wallpapers that you have. So you can take a look at these side-by-side clownfish wallpapers, and you can see how the orange on the one on the right on the fish is actually gone and everything is basically it’s got this green tint to it.
But is there any way that it could also work on older iPhone models? And technically, yes, it could easily work on an iPhone 13 Pro, as that one has a 10 Hz refresh rate low enough for it to be always on display to still be more efficient. And if Apple really wanted to, they could also enable it on even older iPhones with a 60 Hz panel.
If you take a look at what Samsung did, the Galaxy S7, S8, S9. All of those had 60 Hz refresh rates and were also always on functionality. In fact, a user got the always-on functionality to work on an iPhone X using the iOS 16 betas. Now, this is likely a bug as it’s not supposed to work on the iPhone X, and it also looks a bit odd, like you still have the camera and the flashlight icons, which you’re not supposed to have and you are always on display. Maybe it was simply just an earlier version of it.
Also, this reminded me of 95 Mac reported a while ago that Apple has very likely tested the always-on functionality on older iPhone models too. So if you’re hoping to get us working on older iPhone models, I wouldn’t really get my hopes high because this is one of the key selling points of the iPhone 14 Pros, the reason why Apple is very likely to keep it exclusive to the 14 Pros.
Nightstand Mode
The next lead comes from Maguire Wood on iPhone 14, and we might just get the NightStand mode that we have on the Apple Watch on the iPhone 14 Pros. It’s actually one of my favorite features on the Apple Watch, and I use it every single night. Of course, you will have to have your iPhone charging and you also need to put it on a standard vertical stand to be able to see the time, but I think it’s an awesome feature.
And Maguire would also report that apparently the Always on Display on iPhone 14 will be disabled by default, and that to enable it, you will have to go into Settings and then Display and Brightness, and then enable it from there. That’s a bit strange for a brand new exclusive feature to be disabled by default on iPhone 14. Usually when manufacturers do this is because the battery life actually takes a big hit. So I’m just hoping that this isn’t the case for Apple, but from the looks of it, it might just be.
Faster A15 Processors
And then we have some updates regarding the processor for iPhone 14.
I was talking about more reports that the regular iPhone 14 would be using the A15 chip instead of the A16, which would be reserved for the Pro models. Now, I was saying that it is very likely that the A16 would be rebranded to the A16 Pro and then the A15 inside the iPhone 14 would be branded A16 just for marketing purposes.
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Yeah, I wasn’t really expecting to see any performance improvements with the base iPhone 14 model. However, according to Leaker Shrimp Apple Pro, that might not be the case as he still believes the iPhone 14 to be faster than the iPhone 13 due to a new seller modem. So that means faster 5G speeds.
And also, this is very interesting, a new internal design, amongst other things. A new internal design. Could this mean better cooling for the chip? Could this mean a vapor chamber? More about the iPhone 14 right after this.
Vapour Chamber
So the vapor chamber is the next big league that I want to talk about on iPhone 14. Initially, this was reported by Michael back in 2021 that we would be seeing the even better performance and even faster 5G speeds with the iPhone 14 Pros. This resembles almost one-to-one what shrimp Bubble Pro was saying.
And then Maguirewood also had something to say about this, that the iPhone 14 Pro and Pro Max have been scoring higher than the regular models in benchmarks. But interesting enough, that is not because of the more powerful A16 chip rather than the A15, but because of better heat management. This to me definitely sounds like a vapor cooling chamber or at least some sort of an improved cooling system.
Most Android flagships use this already, so it’s not really anything new and it can actually make a big difference. Now, Apple hasn’t really used a vapor chamber up until now because they didn’t really need to. Their processors were very, very efficient and they didn’t really produce much heat. But I feel like now since Apple has reached a bottleneck in terms of the performance that they can achieve, they need to figure out new ways of improving that performance without necessarily changing the chips themselves.
Colors
Then we also have a leak on the colors also coming from Maguire Wood.
So apparently the iPhone 14 will come in green, so that’s still the same as now, a new purple, which will be replacing the pink may be similar to the iPhone twelve purple, then a blue, a black, maybe instead of midnight, a white, maybe instead of starlight, and then a red, same as now. And then in terms of the 14 Pro, this will come in green, so that’s staying. Purple, which is apparently replacing the Sierra blue, sadly.
Then silver, which is staying, gold, which is staying, and graphite, which is also staying. Now I do believe that we are very likely going to see some variations of these colors that are not changing so slightly different shades, and especially for the nonpro models, I think it would be awesome if Apple did release a true black and a true white as right now. If you really want to get those pure colors, you have to go with the Pro models.
Titanium Finish
Speaking of the colors and the design, I also want to touch upon the Titanium Finish that Apple was exploring the Titanium finish for the upcoming iPhones. In fact, they even had patents that showed ways of reducing fingerprints and smudges. But sadly, according to Mcguirewood, Titanium will not be happening anymore with the iPhone 14 Pros. Apple did actually make some prototypes according to him, but he didn’t really see any actual prototypes with a functioning board.
And the reason for this was apparently the fact that it was just too hard to work with and Titanium was simply not cost-effective enough for me. That would have been perfect. It’s 45% lighter than stainless steel, and smudges and fingerprints would have been less visible according to the Apple patents. And of course, Titanium is also more durable than stainless steel. So I think that would be the perfect finish on the promo.
Of course, we could still see this on other devices. There’s the Titanium Apple Watch Pro of course, which is coming, and then we might see a Titanium MacBook Pro or MacBook sometime in the future. So Apple is still testing Titanium, they haven’t given up just yet.
Reverse Wireless Charging
And then also according to McGuire Wood, we might get through reverse for the wireless charging. So the maximum magnets are stronger now, which is a plus, but most importantly, the wireless charging coil will now have the ability to properly charge devices using reverse wireless charging. This is a bit of a weird phrasing because I don’t know if you guys know, but you can still do that with the iPhone 13 Pros and the FM 13. If you use Apple’s maximum battery, you can reverse while they charge that.
So I don’t know how this is any better than that, but he was saying that at lunch this will be disabled, sadly, but that it might be getting enabled in iOS 16.5 later down the line.
Faster Charging
And then we also have faster charging from the current 20 watts wire charging to 30 watts according to Maguire Wood. Although we don’t really have any reports to say if this faster charging will actually be faster or simply just more powerful. Like Apple right now states 50% charge in 30 minutes. But keep in mind that with these new models, the batteries are also bigger, so it doesn’t necessarily mean that we would get like 20 minutes instead of 30 or 50%.
Smaller Changes
There are also a couple of smaller changes that I want to touch upon, which were also reported by Maguire Wood. So currently the front glass will be Gorilla Glass Victor Nothing new here. This has been used on other phones before, especially on Samsung phones, and it’s supposed to offer better scratch resistance and also better drop resistance. So basically the best of both worlds and the storage options are set to remain the same. So no more two turbine options like we’ve seen reported.
Price
And lastly, I want to touch upon the price. So we have an unverified rumor which was found by Mac rumors. This was posted originally on a Korean blog and it states that the iPhone 14, the base model, will have the same price as the iPhone 13 at 799. He did say that even though Apple is facing increased production costs and some supply chain issues, apple decided to keep the base price the same.
This isn’t that surprising, to be honest, considering that the iPhone 14 is remaining mostly unchanged from the iPhone 13.
