Apple Testing Two Major iPhone 18 Pro Camera Upgrades

Apple is actively investigating 2 large rear camera improvements for the iPhone, according to a reputable leaker.


The Weibo idiosyncratic known arsenic "Digital Chat Station" claims that Apple is investigating a caller main camera for the ‌iPhone‌ with a adaptable aperture. A adaptable aperture allows the camera to set the magnitude of airy that reaches the sensor. This means that successful acheronian environments, the aperture tin beryllium opened to person much light, portion successful airy environments, it tin beryllium closed to forestall over-exposure. It besides should supply users with greater power implicit extent of field, which refers to however crisp a taxable appears successful the foreground compared to the background.

The assertion corroborates a multitude of erstwhile rumors that the iPhone 18 Pro and ‌iPhone 18‌ Pro Max volition diagnostic an upgraded main camera with a adaptable aperture. In December 2024, Apple proviso concatenation expert Ming-Chi Kuo was archetypal to accidental that that the main rear camera connected some ‌iPhone 18‌ Pro models volition connection adaptable aperture. A much caller study from October 2025 said Apple was moving up with plans to bring the exertion to next-generation iPhones and was discussing components with suppliers.

Apple has ne'er utilized a adaptable aperture connected an ‌iPhone‌ camera before. The main cameras connected each of the ‌iPhone‌ 14 Pro done iPhone 17 Pro models person a fixed aperture of ƒ/1.78, and the lens is ever afloat unfastened and shooting with this aperture. Samsung Electronics antecedently brought a adaptable aperture camera to its Galaxy S9 and Galaxy S10 models successful 2018 and 2019, but owed to accrued thickness and precocious price, it dropped the diagnostic successful 2020.

Secondly, the leaker reiterated their assertion that that Apple is investigating a caller telephoto camera with a larger aperture for the ‌iPhone 18‌ Pro. The ‌iPhone 17 Pro‌ models diagnostic a telephoto camera with an ƒ/2.8 aperture. While the camera was upgraded to a 48-megapixel sensor, which was a important betterment implicit the 12-megapixel sensor utilized connected erstwhile generations, it retained the aforesaid aperture size. A larger aperture connected the ‌iPhone‌'s telephoto camera would chiefly amended airy gathering, sound performance, shutter speed, and inheritance separation.

Other rumors suggest that the ‌iPhone 18‌ Pro models could besides summation a teleconverter to summation effectual focal magnitude and amended zoom reach, arsenic good arsenic a 24-megapixel front-facing camera. They are expected to motorboat successful the autumn alongside the archetypal foldable ‌iPhone‌.
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