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The iPhone 11 Pro range: A retrospective on Apple’s best value phone It’s that rare word in the Apple ecosystem… a bargain? Why are you looking at the iPhone 11 Pro? Two main reasons. The first is I genuinely think it’s useful to reflect on a device after it being in my life for a long time. At best, most reviews are published after a week or two of use. That really doesn’t tell you a huge amount about the long term implications of a device — especially one you use as much as your phone....

The iPhone 12 Pro can measure people’s height — here’s how Time to update your Tinder I’ve got an iPhone 12 Pro — how can I measure people’s height? First off: odd question. I’m not sure just because youcanmeasure people’s height that you should. But hey, I’m here to pass on information, not be the arbiter of what you do with said knowledge. Let’s get into it. Your opening move is firing up the Measure app on your iPhone 12 Pro (or 2020 iPad Pro, as that has a LiDAR sensor too)....

It was just this week that we got a date forApple’s iPhone 13 event, but the rumor mill has already moved on to the next big thing. Leaks and rumors about the iPhone 14 are already starting to pile up, and they suggest it’s going to be the biggest redesign of the device since the iPhone X was revealed in 2017. LeakerJon Prossertoday showed off some unofficial renders of the upcoming device, which suggest two immediate differences: there’s no camera bump and no notch, removing two of the biggest complaints about the iPhone’s design since the iPhone X....

The iPhone 12 series had its share of camera improvements, including ProRAW anda LiDAR sensorfor Pro models. However,the overall imaging quality didn’t see as much of an improvement as in the iPhone 11 over the iPhone Xs. This year, Apple is planning to switch things up with its camera set up and introduce autofocus in the ultra-wide-angle sensor. According to renowned Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, the company will introducethis functionality in the Pro modelslaunching this year, and bring it to non-Pro models in 2022....

Today’s Apple eventwas pretty low-key, as far as these things usually go. There wasn’t much we didn’t already know from rumors over the past few weeks, and the hardware changes in the iPhone 13 and iPhone 13 Pro were largely what you’d expect from yearly updates. Instead, the coolest announcement may have been a software one — albeit one enabled by the new A15 Bionic processor. It’s called Cinematic mode, and I think it’s going to majorly change the way people create video content with their smartphones....