{"id":25,"count":12018,"description":"[caption id=\"attachment_888289\" align=\"alignnone\" width=\"780\"]\"iPhone:<\/a> The iPhone is the world\u2019s most popular smartphone.[\/caption]\r\n\r\nThe iPhone is Apple\u2019s smartphone. Launched in 2007, it is Apple\u2019s best-selling product, representing around half of the company\u2019s revenue for more than a decade.\r\n\r\nThe slim device's innovative touchscreen interface revolutionized the way users interact with smartphones. Apple continually updates the iPhone, releasing new models with new features every year.\r\n\r\nThe iPhone runs on a proprietary operating system known as iOS, which shares many features with iPadOS, macOS, watchOS and visionOS. iOS 18<\/a> is the current version.\r\n\r\nIn 2025, the iPhone lineup currently includes four flagship models \u2014 a regular iPhone and an iPhone Pro, in both medium and large sizes. Apple announces these models every year in early September. Apple continues to offer older models for sale at a reduced price after they\u2019ve been replaced. A budget iPhone SE<\/a> sits at the bottom of the lineup and typically receives updates every few years.\r\n

Table of contents: Everything you need to know about the iPhone<\/h3>\r\n
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  1. iPhone history<\/a>\r\n
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    1. Original iPhone<\/a><\/li>\r\n \t
    2. iPhone 3G and 3GS<\/a><\/li>\r\n \t
    3. iPhone 4<\/a><\/li>\r\n \t
    4. iPhone 4s<\/a><\/li>\r\n \t
    5. iPhone 5<\/a><\/li>\r\n \t
    6. iPhone 5s and 5c<\/a><\/li>\r\n \t
    7. iPhone 6, 6 Plus and 6s<\/a><\/li>\r\n \t
    8. iPhone 7 and iPhone 8<\/a><\/li>\r\n \t
    9. iPhone X<\/a><\/li>\r\n \t
    10. iPhone XS, XS Max, XR, 11 and 11 Pro<\/a><\/li>\r\n \t
    11. iPhone 12 and iPhone 13 lineup<\/a><\/li>\r\n \t
    12. iPhone 14, 15 and 16 lineup<\/a><\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\n<\/li>\r\n \t
    13. iPhone features<\/a>\r\n
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      1. iPhone Camera<\/a><\/li>\r\n \t
      2. Camera Control<\/a><\/li>\r\n \t
      3. Dynamic Island<\/a><\/li>\r\n \t
      4. iPhone screen<\/a><\/li>\r\n \t
      5. StandBy<\/a><\/li>\r\n \t
      6. iPhone storage<\/a><\/li>\r\n \t
      7. iPhone Photos<\/a><\/li>\r\n \t
      8. iMessage on iPhone<\/a><\/li>\r\n \t
      9. iPhone Backup<\/a><\/li>\r\n \t
      10. Find My iPhone<\/a><\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\n<\/li>\r\n \t
      11. iPhone Accessories<\/a>\r\n
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        1. MagSafe<\/a><\/li>\r\n \t
        2. MagSafe chargers<\/a><\/li>\r\n \t
        3. MagSafe cases<\/a><\/li>\r\n \t
        4. MagSafe wallets<\/a><\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\n<\/li>\r\n \t
        5. Latest news<\/a><\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\n

          iPhone history<\/h2>\r\n

          Original iPhone<\/h3>\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_472505\" align=\"alignnone\" width=\"780\"]\"Promotional<\/a> The original iPhone that changed it all.[\/caption]\r\n\r\nApple unveiled the original iPhone on January 9, 2007<\/a>, at Macworld Expo in San Francisco.\r\n\r\nIt was the first smartphone with an all-screen design, capacitive touchscreen and advanced modern software with full web browsing capabilities. Phones before the iPhone came with physical keyboards, required you to click around with arrow keys for navigation instead of tapping the screen, and ran limited proprietary software.\r\n\r\nThe iPhone\u2019s 3.5-inch touchscreen display and powerful software (based on Mac OS X) set it apart from the competition. These two technologies enabled all kinds of innovation in the interface that we still use today: the Home screen of apps, inertial scrolling, slide to unlock<\/a>, pinch to zoom and a software keyboard.\r\n\r\nThe original iPhone lacked many major features, though. There were no third-party apps or App Store<\/a>, because the software was still being developed. That would not arrive until the following year. The camera didn\u2019t take video, only very low-resolution pictures. Cellphone cameras in 2007 were not expected to be good. There was no copy and paste feature \u2014 the design team hadn\u2019t figured out a good interface for it yet. iMessage wouldn\u2019t launch for another few years \u2014 the iPhone only supported SMS\/MMS texting.\r\n

          iPhone 3G and iPhone 3GS<\/h3>\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_432312\" align=\"alignnone\" width=\"780\"]\"iPhone<\/a> The iPhone 3G was a big step forward.[\/caption]\r\n\r\nThe iPhone 3G in 2008 brought a much improved wireless connection<\/a>. The original was limited to the 2G Edge network, with typical download speeds a measly 0.1 Mb\/s. Without Wi-Fi, downloading emails or browsing the web was nigh unusably slow. The 3G radio significantly helped.\r\n\r\nIt also added GPS, offering precise location tracking in Google Maps.\r\n\r\nThe iPhone 3G switched out the two-tone design for a plastic shell, in either black or white. The headphone jack was no longer recessed, allowing for more kinds of headphones to be plugged in.\r\n\r\nThe iPhone 3GS in 2009 was the first model to get a faster processor, making it twice as fast. It also had a higher resolution 3 MP camera capable of recording video.\r\n

          iPhone 4<\/h3>\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_888381\" align=\"alignnone\" width=\"780\"]\"iPhone<\/a> The iPhone 4 had a timeless and beautiful design.[\/caption]\r\n\r\nThe iPhone 4 in 2010 was a huge leap forward when it debuted in 2010<\/a>. Its design, with glass on the front and back sandwiched around a silver stainless steel band, is one of the most iconic. It still feels very premium and nice in the hand to this day.\r\n\r\nThe Retina display doubled the resolution of the screen, so text is easier to read and images and video look crisper and higher-resolution. It maintained the same 3.5-inch size, but with pixels doubled from 480 \u00d7 320 to 960 \u00d7 640 resolution. Apple rolled out Retina displays across the rest of its product lineup, onto the iPad in 2011, the MacBook Pro in 2012 and the iMac in 2014.\r\n\r\nIt introduced the first front-facing \u201cselfie\u201d camera on an iPhone, and brought with it FaceTime video calling. (Although, at first, you could only FaceTime other people who had an iPhone 4.)\r\n\r\nIt also had the first Apple silicon chip, called the A4. Apple had acquired PA Semiconductor two years prior<\/a> in 2008. Apple would continue to develop all of its own processors for the iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch in-house, until eventually switching the Mac to Apple silicon<\/a> in 2020.\r\n\r\nThis iPhone is famous for leaking before its official introduction<\/a>. A prototype iPhone 4 was accidentally left in a bar by an Apple engineer. It ended up in the hands of\u00a0Gizmodo<\/em>, which bought it for $5,000 and published all kinds of details about its design and features.\r\n\r\nIn the United States, the iPhone 4 was the first model to be offered on Verizon<\/a>, ending its exclusivity with AT&T. Interestingly, the Verizon iPhone 4 had a different physical design<\/a>, with antennas repositioned around the outside. This design would be used on the iPhone 4s.\r\n\r\nThose antenna lines on the outside were famous for causing the iPhone to lose some of its signal strength<\/a> if they were covered up by your hand. Steve Jobs was called back home from his Hawaii vacation in order to hold a press conference addressing the issue. In the end, Apple offered customers a free bumper case that would cover up the lines, and future models were designed with the antenna lines in different spots that are harder to cover up.\r\n\r\nYet another snag would hit the iPhone 4, as the white model was delayed by ten months<\/a>. Evidently, the brighter color led to light leaking into the camera sensor.\r\n

          iPhone 4s<\/h3>\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_448286\" align=\"alignnone\" width=\"780\"]\"iPhone<\/a> The iPhone 4s introduced us to Siri, clad in gray linen.[\/caption]\r\n\r\nThe iPhone 4s in 2011 was a significant internal upgrade<\/a>. It again had a significantly faster chip inside, the A5. It was the first iPhone to get 4G LTE connectivity. The rear camera was also now capable of recording 1080p video, with some image stabilization.\r\n\r\nThe iPhone 4s was most famous for introducing Siri. The first generation voice assistant, then in beta, could set timers, read and send texts, play music from your library, perform math calculations via Wolfram Alpha, give information on movies and actors from Wikipedia, and more. (Not much has changed on that front.)\r\n\r\nIt was also the first iPhone not to be introduced by Steve Jobs. The keynote was hosted by CEO Tim Cook; the iPhone 4s was introduced by Phil Schiller and Scott Forstall. The iPhone 4s was announced on September 4, 2011; Jobs died the following day<\/a>.\r\n\r\nFrom this point onwards, new iPhones were introduced in September, with few exceptions.\r\n

          iPhone 5<\/h3>\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_264202\" align=\"alignnone\" width=\"780\"]\"iPhone<\/a> The iPhone 5 and 5s raised the size of the screen for the first time.[\/caption]\r\n\r\nThe iPhone 5 in 2012 was the first model to come with a bigger screen<\/a>, raising it from 3.5 inches to 4. It increased the height of the display without changing the width, making it a standard 16:9 aspect ratio. Apple marketing claimed that the new display was still easy to use with one hand, as one thumb could easily reach over to the opposite edge or up to the very top. The taller screen allowed for an extra row of icons on the Home Screen, or an extra email to display in your inbox.\r\n\r\nThe iPhone 5 came in a very dark black finish, that had a tendency to chip away as it aged.\r\n

          iPhone 5s and 5c<\/h3>\r\nThe iPhone 5s in 2013 brought two major innovations.\r\n\r\nTouch ID let you authenticate your iPhone using a fingerprint sensor built into its Home Button. With one simple click of the button, you could wake up your iPhone and instantly unlock it. Prior to Touch ID, many people didn\u2019t set up their phone with a passcode. This significantly increased the security of iPhone users everywhere.\r\n\r\nThe A7 chip inside the iPhone 5s was also the first 64-bit chip in a smartphone. This gave the iPhone 5s a much longer lease on life than previous models. The iPhone 5s launched with iOS 7, but can be updated to iOS 12.5.7 \u2014 that\u2019s five major updates. Previous models had only received three or four.\r\n\r\nIt also came in three colors: Silver, Space Gray and a new Gold.\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_244629\" align=\"alignnone\" width=\"640\"]\"iPhone<\/a> The iPhone 5c was Apple's most colorful iPhone yet.[\/caption]\r\n\r\nAfter the debut of the iPhone 5s, instead of continuing the sale of the iPhone 5 at a lower cost, Apple replaced it with the iPhone 5c. It was essentially an iPhone 5, but with a colorful plastic shell instead of the similar-looking metal body.\r\n

          iPhone 6, 6 Plus and 6s<\/h3>\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_296762\" align=\"alignnone\" width=\"780\"]\"iPhone<\/a> The iPhone 6 had a more simple design that stayed for many years.[\/caption]\r\n\r\nThe iPhone 6 and 6 Plus in 2014 dramatically increased the size of the screen<\/a>, now to 4.7 and 5.5 inches. (This was also the first time Apple debuted two models in one generation.) The iPhone 6 and 6 Plus were a huge hit<\/a>, as \u201cphablets\u201d had taken off as a category among Android phones.\r\n\r\nThe iPhone 6 was the first iPhone to have a protruding camera. While this change was wildly controversial at the time, it now seems quaint. Its single lens looks like a tiny blemish on the back compared to today\u2019s iPhones, with gigantic multi-camera arrays.\r\n\r\nIt also adopted a more basic design, with a rounded aluminum body, that would stay for many years.\r\n\r\nThe iPhone 6s in 2015 was a large internal upgrade<\/a>. The A9 chip significantly boosted performance by 70%. A second-generation Touch ID sensor was much faster. The display introduced 3D Touch \u2014 a pressure-sensitive layer that added an extra dimension to interaction. In addition to a tap, you could press. This would let you preview an email without opening it, or you could press the edge of the screen to quickly switch apps. The camera also introduced Live Photos for the first time.\r\n

          iPhone 7 and 8<\/h3>\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_444851\" align=\"alignnone\" width=\"780\"]\"iPhone<\/a> The iPhone 7 came in a brilliant Jet Black finish.[\/caption]\r\n\r\nThe iPhone 7 in 2016 brought with it a haptic Home Button<\/a>. The button no longer physically clicked, but instead used a precisely controlled motor to simulate a button click. The iPhone 7 Plus was the first iPhone to introduce a dual-lens camera system, offering a telephoto optical 2\u00d7 zoom. Portrait Mode combined the image from both lenses to simulate a shallow depth of field effect, also known as \u2018bokeh.\u2019\r\n\r\nIt also came in a special Jet Black color, with a highly polished black aluminum finish.\r\n\r\nThe oft-forgotten iPhone 8 was introduced in 2017 at the same time as the iPhone X<\/a>, with many of the same internal components, but without the radical new all-screen design. It featured a similar design to the prior iPhone 7, with a rectangular screen and a Home Button, except with a glass back to support wireless charging.\r\n

          iPhone X<\/h3>\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_888411\" align=\"alignnone\" width=\"780\"]\"iPhone<\/a> The iPhone X is still a sharp, modern-looking phone.[\/caption]\r\n\r\nThe iPhone X in 2017 was the most dramatic redesign of the iPhone since its introduction<\/a>. (Apple still pronounces the X as \u201cten.\u201d)\r\n\r\nThe all-screen design abandoned the Home Button that had been present since the very beginning, along with the chunky bezels on the top and bottom. The screen reached all the way to the edge, allowing for a significantly larger screen in a phone was largely the same physical size.\r\n\r\nShrinking the proximity sensor, ambient light sensor, speaker and camera \u2014 along with the new Face ID sensors \u2014 led to a large notch in the top of the screen. The iPhone 13 Pro would reposition the speaker even higher, allowing the notch to shrink; the iPhone 14 Pro would replace the notch with the Dynamic Island.\r\n\r\nThe A11 chip inside the iPhone X was the first to include a Neural Engine, for better performance with machine learning-based tasks and features. The Neural Engine would later become an integral part of Apple silicon, powering Apple Intelligence on the iPhone 15 Pro and later.\r\n

          iPhone XS, XS Max, XR, 11 and 11 Pro<\/h3>\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_575843\" align=\"alignnone\" width=\"780\"]\"The<\/a> The iPhone XS marked the return of gold.[\/caption]\r\n\r\nThe iPhone XS debuted on September 12, 2018<\/a>. The A12 chip inside was a monumental leap forward, with a 50% faster GPU and 8\u00d7 faster Neural Engine. The modern all-screen design now came in two sizes \u2014 the iPhone XS Max was the same phone, in a much larger 6.5-inch size.\r\n\r\nThe iPhone XR debuted at the same event, as a lower-cost model with a similar design. It featured a lower-resolution LCD display rather than an OLED panel, with a screen size squarely in the middle at 6.1 inches.\r\n\r\nThe iPhone 11 lineup replaced all three models on September 10, 2019. Last year\u2019s iPhone XR was revised to become the iPhone 11<\/a>, with a much-upgraded camera. The iPhone XS and XS Max became the new iPhone 11 Pro and Pro Max<\/a>, featuring much brighter displays, a new triple-camera layout and far greater battery life.\r\n

          iPhone 12 and iPhone 13 lineup<\/h3>\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_725314\" align=\"alignnone\" width=\"780\"]\"iPhone<\/a> The iPhone 12 was the first with 5G.[\/caption]\r\n\r\nThree became four with the new iPhone 12, 12 mini, 12 Pro and 12 Pro Max, featuring a fresh redesign with flat edges all around. These models were the first iPhones with 5G connectivity, and introduced the MagSafe line of chargers and accessories. The entry-level models were finally bumped from an LCD display to OLED, like the Pro models.\r\n\r\nThe quadruplets carried over the following year as well, with the iPhone 13 lineup. The iPhone 13 Pro and Pro Max now featured always-on displays, letting you keep an eye on your notifications and the time while your phone is locked.\r\n

          iPhone 14, iPhone 15 and iPhone 16 lineup<\/h3>\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_868093\" align=\"alignnone\" width=\"780\"]\"iPhone<\/a> The iPhone 15 and 16 Pro (pictured) switched from polished stainless steel to a matte titanium frame.[\/caption]\r\n\r\nThe iPhone 14 lineup dropped the mini. It now consisted of the iPhone 14, iPhone 14 Pro, iPhone 14 Pro Max and an iPhone 14 Plus \u2014 a budget phone with the same screen size as the Pro Max. The iPhone 14 introduced Emergency SOS via Satellite<\/a>, for contacting emergency services in remote locations. On the pro models, the notch was replaced by a new Dynamic Island \u2014 a floating black cutout in the display, that can show background tasks like timers and navigation up in the status area. The main rear camera could take 48 MP photos for the first time.\r\n\r\nThe iPhone 15 lineup switched all models away from Lightning to the industry-standard USB-C connector. The lower-end models<\/a> now featured the Dynamic Island. On the iPhone 15 Pro<\/a>, the traditional ring\/mute switch was replaced by a customizable Action button. The pro models support Apple Intelligence.\r\n\r\nThe iPhone 16 lineup introduced a new Camera Control button<\/a> for quickly opening and operating the camera. It is also pressure-sensitive for detecting half-presses and touch-sensitive for swiping along the surface. The lower-end models<\/a> also received the Action button. All models support Apple Intelligence. The Pro models<\/a> can now seamlessly shoot 4K 120 fps video.\r\n

          iPhone Features<\/h2>\r\n

          iPhone camera<\/h3>\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_869772\" align=\"alignnone\" width=\"780\"]\"Desert<\/a> The camera dominates the back of the iPhone.[\/caption]\r\n\r\nThe camera is one of the iPhone\u2019s most prominent features, with a large multi-camera system dominating the back of the phone on the pro models. Here\u2019s a quick guide to the features of the iPhone\u2019s camera:\r\n

          Photo modes<\/strong><\/h4>\r\n