What but happened? Apple unveiled 2 new Pro-tier iPhones, the iPhone 13 Pro and the iPhone xiii Pro Max, today during its California streaming presentation. These premium models represent the best of what Apple has to offer in a smartphone, and it starts with the new A15 Bionic CPU.

Apple's latest custom silicon features two high-operation cores and four high-efficiency cores. There'south also a new 16-core Neural Engine capable of 15.8 trillion operations per second and a 5-cadre GPU that's up to 50 pct faster than the leading competition. In fact, Apple claims it's the fastest graphics subsystem in any smartphone, ever.

Like last year'south models, the iPhone 13 Pro and Pro Max ship with 6.one-inch and half-dozen.7-inch OLED displays, respectively. This time around, yet, Apple has included an all-new Super Retina XDR display with ProMotion. This applied science allows the brandish to automatically sense what's happening on the screen and adjust the refresh rate appropriately, from 10Hz all the mode up to 120Hz.

The brandish is protected by Apple's Ceramic Shield coating, with a textured matte glass roofing on the rear. A surgical-grade stainless steel band encompasses the new Pro models, which are offered in four colors including graphite, aureate, argent and sierra blue. The front-facing notch that houses the TrueDepth camera system is 20 percentage smaller, no doubt a bonus for those that are balky to the notch.

The new iPhone Pro models besides retain the same IP68 water resistance as last twelvemonth'southward offerings.

Bated from the bigger displays, about probable look to a Pro model iPhone for its rear camera system. This year's models feature three cameras.

The 77mm telephoto boasts a six-chemical element, f/2.eight discontinuity lens with a 3x optical zoom while the wide-angle utilizes a seven-element lens with an f/1.5 aperture. The ultra-broad camera employs a six-chemical element lens with an f/ane.8 discontinuity, and all have a sapphire crystal lens covering for enhanced scratch resistance. In full, you get 6x optical zoom range beyond the entire system, and all cameras feature Night mode.

Apple says the wide-angle camera has a larger sensor with i.ix µm pixels to reduce noise. Combined with its f/one.5 aperture, the iPhone 13 Pro and Pro Max beget a "massive improvement" in low-light situations: up to 2.2x when compared to iPhone 12 Pro and virtually 1.5x when compared to iPhone 12 Pro Max.

(A close-up paradigm of a leaf captured using the iPhone'southward new macro style.)

The new ultra-wide photographic camera, meanwhile, enables macro photography for the first time on an iPhone. This manner features a minimum focus distance of just 2 centimeters, allowing you to get closer to your subjects than ever before. The macro function also extends to video to include Slo-mo and Time-lapse.

Speaking of video, Apple has introduced a new Cinematic mode which records in Dolby Vision HDR and is highlighted past rack focus, assuasive for focus transitions between subjects. You can elect to let the feature adjust the focus automatically, or manually control the transitions. And, you can fifty-fifty arrange focus afterward a video has been captured, à la Lytro.

The new Pro iPhones also back up ProRes, the video codec Apple tree introduced way back in 2007 for post-product piece of work.

(Recording video on the iPhone 13 Pro).

Notably, Cinematic mode is limited to 1080p at xxx frames per second for recording videos with shallow depth of field. 4K video can exist captured at upward to 60 frames per second, and ProRes video tops out at 4K 30fps (or 1080p at 30fps if you have the 128GB model).

As for battery life, the standard Pro model is rated for up to 22 hours of video playback while the Pro Max tin hold out for upwards to 28 hours. According to Apple tree, this is ane.five hours and 2.5 hours longer than final year's models, respectively, and the iPhone 13 Pro Max now offers the longest battery life of whatever iPhone.

Notably, at that place was no mention of back up for LEO satellite communications as was rumored tardily last month.

Apple'due south iPhone xiii Pro and Pro Max become up for pre-guild on September 17 starting at 5 a.m. Pacific. Pricing starts at $999 for the 128GB iPhone thirteen Pro, and $one,099 for the iPhone thirteen Pro Max. Both will exist bachelor in 128GB, 256GB, 512GB and 1TB capacities (the latter, for the outset time). Look for them to launch on September 24.