Apple will equip the iPhone 16 Professional and iPhone 16 Professional Max — the corporate’s purported Professional fashions anticipated to launch later this yr — with an upgraded digital camera setup, in accordance with TF Securities Worldwide analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, who claims that Apple will improve the ultra-wide angle digital camera on this yr’s Professional fashions, whereas the smaller iPhone 16 Professional can be geared up with the tetraprism telephoto digital camera setup discovered on the iPhone 15 Professional Max. The corporate can also be tipped to equip the iPhone 17 collection with an upgraded selfie digital camera.
In a Medium put up, Kuo states that Apple will improve the iPhone 16 Professional and iPhone 16 Professional Max from a 12-megapixel sensor to a 48-megapixel sensor — the sensor is predicted to output 12-megapixel pictures which are pixel binned, in accordance with Kuo, however the {hardware} improve will result in improved picture high quality in comparison with the iPhone 15 Professional fashions.
The analyst says that Taiwan-based Genius Digital Optical can be a serious provider of the ultra-wide angle lens on the iPhone 16 Professional fashions, and the agency can also be on observe to provide the tetraprism telephoto lens for the smaller iPhone 16 Professional mannequin, bringing its optical zoom efficiency on par with the bigger Professional mannequin.
Final yr, Apple geared up the iPhone 15 Professional with an upgraded telephoto digital camera that provides as much as 5x optical zoom. Earlier leaks recommend the iPhone 16 Professional can even be geared up with related digital camera {hardware} that permits the identical performance. The iPhone 16 Professional can also be anticipated to sport a bigger 6.27-inch show, which ought to drive extra customers — an estimated improve of 5 to 10 % — to improve when the telephone arrives, in accordance with Kuo.
Kuo additionally predicts that Apple will improve the iPhone 17 collection with a brand new selfie digital camera from a 12-megapixel sensor with a 5P lens to a 24-megapixel digital camera with a 6P lens, enhancing the picture high quality “considerably”. As the first provider for the entrance cameras on the iPhone, Genius’ income is predicted to rise considerably, Kuo says, as the value of a 6P lens is one hundred pc to120 % larger than 5P lenses.
