We JUST got a huge flurry of iPhone 14 Pro leaks over the weekend that help confirm a lot of the
leaks and rumors that we just weren’t sure about until this point, including reports that design
is NOW FINALIZED and we shouldn’t see any more changes after this point, which is great news!
And now before I get into the very interesting details about which
port the iPhone 14 Pro is the most likely to come with, let’s first get into what
everyone’s been talking about this weekend, and that’s the brand new hole-punch cutout display!
About a month and a half ago, we started to see confirmation for the original display leak
from ShrimpApplePro which showed two cutouts replacing the current Face ID notch!
Now initially, the idea was that the extra hole on the side would be invisible,
with part of the Face ID system shining through it, leaving a nice pill-shaped cutout
perfectly centered in the middle, but that ended up getting debunked with some rumor confirmation.
And that confirmation actually came from Ross Young, who is a display analyst with a 100%
track record in terms of Apple leaks, including perfectly predicting the display
size of the iPad mini 6, as well as Mini-LED and ProMotion coming to the new MacBook Pros.
On January 12th, he said that this display panel leak was real,
and that the extra hole-punch would remain visible, with a new unique two-hole concept.
And even though it looks a bit weird, the idea is that it would allow the iPhone to continue to
look completely different from any other design out there, which is very important to Apple.
But what ended up happening was that everyone on the internet started to
create renders of this new design, with hole punch cutouts that were pretty small and sleek.
But over this weekend, we got a MAJOR leak from a Weibo source that completely spoiled the party.
A display schematic was leaked by a Chinese source,
showing a much larger dual cutout than people expected, but the most important
part is that it actually kind of looks like it could be an official leaked schematic.
And even better, it was confirmed by MULTIPLE sources including
Jon Prosser who said he was able to independently confirm
that this schematic is legitimate and that this was the likely size of the cutouts.
Now the weird thing is that the size doesn’t really match the original display panel leak
from ShrimpApplePro, who by the way has been saying that his panel leak
was from the backside, so it should actually be flipped when on the iPhone,
matching the cutout orientation of this new schematic leak.
But the part that doesn’t really match up is the size,
since the cutouts on the original display panel leak seem to be quite a bit smaller.
And thankfully, ShrimpApplePro sent out a newsletter on Sunday
to explain the entire situation with the size difference.
Apparently, back in August, he said that the cutouts will be WEIRDLY BIG,
basically confirming these recent schematic leaks that look big!
And then to explain the difference in the
size of his original display panel leak and the new schematic, Shrimp believes
that this new schematic is for the 6.1” iPhone 14 Pro model, while his panel leak
was of the larger 6.7” model, which is why the cutouts look smaller against the larger display.
So it looks like Apple is gonna be taking the simple route of tweaking the Face ID sensor
system, then cutting around it, and then removing the black paint of the current notch we have,
which would lead to a design that looks like this,
which is exactly what I showed you guys in a video I made a month and a half ago.
And while a lot of people online aren’t happy with this news of the cutouts being larger
than expected, I personally think it’s gonna look great, especially on the Max model which I prefer,
and it’s gonna put the notch to shame.
And speaking of the notch, Shrimp confirmed that this new cutout design
is only for the Pro models, while the regular 14 and 14 Max models
will continue to come with the same old notch that we have on the 13 models.
And this right here was actually an old leak from Ross Young,
which he recently confirmed once again on the weekend.
But the most important confirmation that he gave us was that next year,
all four of the iPhone 15 models will come with this new dual-hole design,
hopefully with smaller holes than we saw in the schematic, but nevertheless,
this means that the notch will finally be going away for good on the iPhone!
So if you’re planning on skipping the iPhone 14 this year, next year will
be awesome for the lower-end iPhone 15 models now that the notch will be gone.
And as far as 120hz ProMotion technology, Ross Young confirmed that for the iPhone 15 lineup,
it’s still only gonna be on the Pro models and not
any of the lower-end models, so I would still recommend going for the Pro models
because 120hz has been my favorite feature so far with my 13 Pro Max.
Now on top of all of these display and design leaks,
we also got some important leaks concerning the general features and specs.
For example, we got a report from Taiwan’s economic daily news
that the iPhone 14 lineup should have a battery life improvement thanks to a new
5G chip which will be produced using TSMC’s new 6nm process which is more efficient.
But on top of that, it also means that we should get less overheating
while using 5G, which has been causing some problems with the current iPhones
while running high-performance tasks on 5G like gaming.
But the part that I’m really looking forward to is the addition of WiFi 6E with the new 6Ghz band,
which will be a much bigger deal than WiFi 6, which didn’t seem to change much at all.
Going further, we got some reports from a Korean blogger who claims that the iPhone 14 Pro
will come with 8GB of RAM this year, and this is after an Analyst Jeff Pu
said that we should be getting 8GB, so I’m pretty confident that this is gonna happen.
And now another leaked feature that we finally got some more clarity on
is under-display Touch ID which has been leaked for many years already.
And you guys may know, I’ve been saying that ever since Apple allowed Face ID to work with masks,
I honestly don’t think Apple will ever need
under-display Touch ID, and it looks like all of the leaks are pointing to this happening.
First of all, Shrimp Apple Pro confirmed that Touch ID
will not be coming to the iPhone 14 Pro, which is something he’s been saying since August.
And even more recently, LeaksApplePro has reported
to iDropNews that Apple is no longer working on under-display touch ID
for the iPhone, which basically means that they’re completely scrapping the idea.
And in my opinion, this makes sense because Face ID is completely exclusive to Apple.
There’s literally nothing out there that’s like it, while under-display fingerprint scanners are
everywhere, so I think Apple will stick with Face ID for many years, maybe even
decades as they improve on the technology by adding even more layers of security to it.
Now finally, the last thing I want to talk about is the port situation,
and as you guys may know, I made a video a couple of months back discussing why I
think it makes sense for the iPhone 14 Pro to come with USB-C instead of Lightning.
And within that video, I made the very important point
that when Apple revealed Lightning, they said that it would be the port
that they’d use for the next decade, and guess what, that was back in 2012.
So this basically confirms that either this year or next year, Apple will be ditching
Lightning on the iPhone, and I personally think it’s gonna be this year because they might as
well do it alongside the full redesign, especially since we’re expected to get
a 48MP camera on the Pro models for shooting 8K video, so we’ll need the faster transfer speeds!
But since making that video, Apple has apparently discontinued the iPhone Lightning Dock,
which could be a major hint that points to them beginning to ditch Lightning completely!
And even though the last thing Ming-Chi Kuo said about USB-C on the iPhone was
that Apple would stick to Lightning, that was actually back in March of last year,
so maybe things have changed, and that’s what I’m hoping for!
But no matter what happens, the important thing is that the dual cutout Face ID display design
is now confirmed to be coming, and it’s gonna help the iPhone look a lot better than before.
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