The next iPhones won’t arrive until this fall, but a new report has revealed that a new, much brighter screen is in store for the iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max, 20% brighter than the current iPhone 15 Pro.
Apple iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max: Do this year’s iPhones have much brighter screens?
According to Weibo leaker Instant Digital, the iPhone 16 Pro and Pro Max will have a screen with a peak brightness of 1,200 nits in normal use, compared to the 1,000 nits on the iPhone 15 Pro.
May 12 update below. This post was first published on May 11, 2024.
The iPhone 15 Pro also offers a peak brightness of 1,600 nits for HDR content, and it is believed that subsequent models will match this HDR brightness.
Instant Digital has a decent track record, including a recent report that the iPad Pro would have a nano-texture glass option and the front camera would be on the landscape edge. Both rumors were confirmed on Tuesday, May 7, when the new iPad Pro was announced.
Something else was confirmed at that launch: that the iPad Pro would use something called Tandem OLED, a system that uses two OLED screens together (in tandem, you might say) to create a bright enough screen that one OLED by itself would not be possible. to manage.
Apple described the iPad Pro screen as “the most advanced screen in the world.” So it looks like Apple has a similarly major screen upgrade in store for this year’s Pro iPhones.
The typical iPhone brightness level has been 1,000 nits for almost three years: the 1,000 nits level was introduced in 2021. This means that if this report is correct, the iPhone 16 Pro’s daily brightness will be noticeably higher than it is now. These brightness levels are important, especially for users who tend to look at their phones outdoors. We can all relate to seeing screens that are too dim to see in sunlight, especially through sunglasses.
There have already been several reports of updates to the iPhone 16 series, such as a new strategy for the new generation of processors, more advanced camera lenses, a new thermal design to prevent overheating, an improved battery life, a new microphone to improve Siri, a additional button, designed for video recording and an improved main camera sensor. So the suggestion that the screen is about to get much brighter is another exciting promise. Let’s see if it’s fulfilled.
May 11 update. The new design of the next iPhone won’t be limited to a much brighter screen, although that’s certainly a significant improvement. It is thought that the design of the cameras is also about to change. That makes sense, because it’s an important upgrade element.
But while the new iPad Pro has dropped the ultrawide camera completely, it looks like the iPhone 16 Pro will see a pixel increase from 12 megapixels to 48 megapixels.
A new report from 9to5Mac notes that multiple rumors all point in this direction, to deliver an ultrawide camera that performs better, especially in low-light environments, and possible improvements in recording spatial video.
The report also claims that the 5x optical zoom telephoto lens on the iPhone 15 Pro Max could come to both the iPhone 16 Pro Max and the smaller iPhone 16 Pro.
Other camera design improvements could include a new coating for the lenses that would minimize internal reflections to improve images. Finally, there could be an all-new main camera sensor, likely with the same 48-megapixel resolution as now, but using stacked sensor technology that, as the report says, “enables the photodiodes themselves – the bit that actually captures the light – be significantly larger for the same total pixel size.