Debuting with iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max, Dynamic Islands offers a variety of fun and exciting new ways for users to interact with events, alerts and notifications.
Eye-catching design, the most advanced display ever on a smartphone
- iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max feature a beautiful medical-grade stainless steel and textured matte glass design in four stunning colors. Available in 6.1-inch and 6.7-inch models1, both models feature Super Retina XDR displays with ProMotion technology, and an always-on display for the first time on iPhone, supported by a new 1Hz refresh rate and multiple power-saving technologies. This makes the new Lock screen more useful, with the time, widgets, and “live news” at a glance. The advanced display also brings the same HDR maximum brightness as Pro Display XDR, which is also the highest outdoor brightness on a smartphone: up to 2,000 nits, twice the brightness of iPhone 13 Pro.
Both models feature a Super Retina XDR display with ProMotion technology, and an always-on display that debuts on iPhone for the first time, supported by a new 1Hz refresh rate and multiple energy-saving technologies.
In addition, iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max use a ceramic crystal cover, which continues to provide industry-leading durability features. It is stronger than any smartphone glass and protects the body from accidental splashes of common liquids. It is splash-proof, water-resistant and dust-resistant2.
“Dynamic Island”: Interactive User Experience
- “Dynamic Island” allows users to interact with iPhone in a brand new way. It adopts a design that integrates hardware and software to display important prompts, notifications and activities in real time. In conjunction with the launch of “Dynamic Island”, the original depth sensing lens has also been redesigned to take up less display area. In addition to not blocking the screen content, “Dynamic Island” will also remain active at all times, and users only need to long press to use various control functions. Applications running in the background, such as “Maps”, “Music” or “Timer” apps remain visible at all times and can be used at any time; and third-party applications that provide information through “Real-time Updates” on iOS 16, such as ball game situation or carpooling related information, can also give full play to the wonderful features of “Dynamic Island”.
A new level of Pro camera system
- The Pro camera system on iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max pushes the limits of what’s possible in a smartphone, allowing every user, whether everyday or professional, to capture the best photos and videos.
- With the introduction of the Light and Shadow Engine, the Pro Camera system of iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max brings further breakthroughs in computational photography. Through the deep integration of hardware and software, it greatly improves the medium to low-light shooting performance of each camera.
The new ultra-wide-angle camera provides better macro photography capabilities, and with the light engine, the shooting performance in medium to low light environments is improved by up to 3 times.
The four-in-one pixel sensor brings benefits to professional workflows, making ProRAW more delicate and moving, showing unprecedented details.
More Pro camera system updates and features include:
- The new 12-megapixel ultra-wide-angle camera is equipped with 1.4-micron pixels, making images clearer, sharper and richer in details, further improving the already powerful macro shooting function.
- Better telephoto camera with 3x optical zoom.
- The new front-facing TrueDepth camera features an ƒ/1.9 aperture for better photos and videos in low-light environments. And for the first time, the camera uses autofocus, which allows it to focus faster, even in low light or when taking photos of groups from a distance.
- The new True Tone flash has been completely redesigned with an array of nine LEDs that change patterns depending on the focal length chosen.
- Powerful computational photography advantages, such as “Night mode”, Smart HDR 4, “Portrait mode” with portrait lighting effects, “Night mode” portrait photos, “Photography Style” function for customizing personal colors, and Apple ProRAW.
- The new “Action Mode” can shoot extremely smooth videos and can cope with large amounts of shake, motion and vibration. This mode can even be used when shooting videos in the middle of action.
- “Movie Effect Mode” now supports 4K video recording at 24fps or 30fps.
- Professional-grade video capture workflow, including ProRes3 and end-to-end Dolby Vision HDR.
“Car accident detection” function
- The iPhone 14 series introduces breakthrough safety features designed to provide emergency support at critical moments. With a new dual-core accelerometer that can detect up to 256G of G-force data, and a new high dynamic range gyroscope, the iPhone’s “Car Crash Detection” feature can detect serious car accidents. When the user loses consciousness or cannot use iPhone, it can automatically call emergency services. These features are built on existing components, such as the barometer can now be used to detect changes in cabin air pressure, GPS introduces more speed change data, and the microphone can identify the impact noise of serious car accidents4. The motion algorithm designed by Apple has been trained with more than 1 million hours of real road driving and car accident record data to provide better accuracy. When used with Apple Watch, “Car Crash Detection” can smoothly play the unique functions of the two devices to provide users with efficient assistance. When a serious car accident is detected, Apple Watch will display an interface for calling emergency services because Apple Watch is usually closest to the user; if iPhone is likely to receive a better signal, the relevant function will be displayed on iPhone.
Crash Detection uses special components and an Apple-designed algorithm to detect serious crashes and automatically call emergency services if a user loses consciousness or is unable to use their iPhone.
A16 Bionic: The fastest chip in a smartphone
- The A16 Bionic chip in iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max is far ahead of the competition, unlocking unparalleled experiences like “Dynamic Islands”, all-day battery life6, and amazingly powerful computational photography capabilities. Equipped with two high-performance cores and four high-efficiency cores, the new 6-core CPU is up to 40% faster than other competitors, making it easy to handle complex and heavy tasks. The A16 Bionic uses a faster 5-core GPU with 50% higher memory bandwidth, which is ideal for games and apps with extremely high image processing requirements; it is also equipped with a new 16-core Neural Engine that can process up to 17 trillion operations per second. The A16 Bionic chip uses Apple’s cutting-edge fusion architecture to combine performance and energy saving, providing better performance than the competition with extremely low power consumption.
- As the foundation of the Pro Camera system, A16 Bionic powers amazing computational photography capabilities. The CPU, GPU, Neural Engine, and Image Signal Processor work together super-smoothly to power the latest camera hardware, processing up to 4 trillion operations per photo.
Powerful mobile features and 5G
- iPhone provides users with ultra-fast download and upload speeds, better streaming speeds, and real-time connectivity with 5G, helping users stay connected, share, and enjoy content7. iPhone support for 5G now extends to more than 250 mobile network providers from more than 70 markets and regions around the world, and also expands support for independent networks. eSIM allows users to easily connect or quickly transfer their existing mobile data plans electronically, which is more secure than using a physical SIM card, and also allows users to use multiple mobile data plans on one device. The SIM card slot has been removed from the US models of iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max, allowing users to set up their devices faster and easier.
