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We’ve spent the last day or two trying out some of the best new features from iPhone 13 Pro users will enjoy – and some who aren’t quite ready for prime time just yet.
Some of the changes to the iPhone 13 Pro compared to the previous iPhone 12 Pro are relatively minor, such as the notch size. Apple made the notch smaller, but the operating system is not taking advantage of this newly gained space.
New colors are a significant differentiation between 2021 and 2020. In addition to graphite, silver and gold, there is Sierra Blue, which replaces the previous Pacific Blue.
Comparison of the Sierra Blue iPhone 13 Pro and Pacific Blue iPhone 12 Pro Max
Comparison of the Sierra Blue iPhone 13 Pro with the Pacific Blue iPhone 12 Pro Max, Sierra Blue is a bit lighter in the back and sides, but it’s not a huge deviation.
In addition to the new color, there are several new exclusive live wallpapers. There are four live wallpapers that all look similar but with different color schemes. There are blue, green, pink, and yellow.
New live wallpapers
On your lock screen, these wallpapers will be animated with the moving light bars. They also support light and dark mode. You can only find these wallpapers on the iPhone 13 Pro and iPhone 13 Pro Max.
A15 Bionic processor
Inside the iPhone 13 Pro is the A15 Bionic processor. Apple in particular hasn’t touted its performance improvements on this processor over the A14, but they are there. Especially in the graphics department.
A15 Bionic is characterized by graphics
In the Geekbench Compute Metal graphics benchmark, we saw a performance jump from 9451 on the iPhone 12 Pro to 14275 on the iPhone 13 Pro. This is due to the A15 Bionic including an additional GPU core, now on five active cores.
The A15 Bionic is also the power behind the new ProMotion display with a refresh rate of 120 Hz and the huge leap in battery life. It’s only been a few days since we reviewed our iPhone 13 Pro, but we’ve certainly noticed prolonged battery usage even after testing so many features.
New cameras
Most impressive about the iPhone 13 Pro are the upgraded cameras. The new camera system went from a 2X telephoto lens on the iPhone 12 Pro to a 3X telephoto lens on the iPhone 13 Pro. This also allows up to 15x digital zoom and 3x optical zoom for videos.
New 3X telephoto lens
This year, both the iPhone 13 Pro and iPhone 13 Pro Max have the same cameras. This is a clear difference from 2020, where the iPhone 12 Pro Max had the better telephoto lens.
We were also blown away with the improvements to the ultra wide angle lens. If you switch from an aperture of f / 2.4 to f / 1.8, a lot more light falls on the sensor. With more light, it can focus faster, which can reduce the blurring in your shots. The aperture enhancement also results in less grain or noise in medium to low light environments.
Not to mention macro mode. Above are a few shots we’ve taken so far – but they look amazing when taken on a smartphone. They are well lit, very sharp and low in noise.
Cinema mode on and off
There’s more here to dwell on for our upcoming full review, like Cinematic Mode’s early weaknesses. We already talked about this in our iPhone 13 mini review, but the short version is that it feels like the early era of portrait mode. If it works, it works fine – but you can sometimes experience edge detection issues, occlusion issues, and bleeding blurring.
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