Here’s five iPhone 14 features that we’re looking forward to when we expect it will land in 2022, both based on rumor and speculation.
The iPhone 12 range was released in late 2020, so the next Apple phones we’re looking forward to are the iPhone 13 handsets – but all the rumors suggest a lot of small improvements. That means we might have to wait until Apple’s 2022 phones, the supposed iPhone 14 range, for the big changes that could bring iPhones into the future. Some of these big changes are advances that might be coming, but not in time for the iPhone 13. Ergo, we expect things like finally losing the notch to happen in the iPhone 14 – in which case, we’d expect a punch-hole to house the selfie camera, but it’s always possible Apple puts it under the display – which would make sense given all its Face ID-enabling sensors. We’re over a year out from the iPhone 14 release, and plenty of things can change before then. Chief among the uncertainties is the name: some rumors suggest Apple could return to its ‘S’ nomenclature and make the 2021 phones the ‘iPhone 12S,’ meaning the 2022 Apple handsets could be the iPhone 13 – but before we confuse you any more, let’s just refer to this upcoming generation as the iPhone 14 we expect to come out next year until we hear differently. Given we haven’t heard much about the iPhone 14 range, we’ll share what we have and expound on what we’d like to see come in Apple’s phones, including features we’ve already seen debut in Android phones and advanced perks we’ve seen sketched out on Apple patents. Here’s everything we know – and what we want – in the iPhone 14. One rumor suggests that the iPhone 14 will finally ditch the notch – and given it comes from noted Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, we’d give it more consideration than other predictions this far out. Other Android phones lost their notches years ago, but Apple has kept the notch to hide the front-facing sensors (dot projector, infrared camera, and flood illuminator) that enable Face ID. But the rumor notes the iPhone 14 may ditch the notch and just have a punch-hole for the selfie camera – though it’s unclear where those sensors would go. It’s possible the sensors would get a smaller notch, or they’d be minimized – perhaps combined into fewer units – and placed alongside the selfie camera for an elongated punch-hole.
