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Apple’s iPhone 13 and 13 Pro are undeniably beside the best phones you can buy in 2022. They offer a brilliant blend of impressive all-around performance with camera skills that can rival professional cameras. But since Apple’s “Far Out” event is set for Wednesday, a new iPhone is likely arriving soon with a variety of refinements and new features. 

We request to see the iPhone 14 at Apple’s initiate event today– here’s everything you should know about its rumored release date, price and new design. Although time is proceeding out, I still want Apple to give my wish list a read and make sure it ticks everything off. Because that’s how it works, right?

In no particular order then, here are my top hopes for the iPhone 14.

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No first-rate on the iPhone 14

The notch. It has to go. Yes, it’s escorted its purpose, housing as it does the front-facing camera and the various scanners to let you unlock your phoned just by looking at it. And while the notch did get one smaller on the iPhone 13, it’s still a big bulky of screen that’s cut away. So it’s time for a better solution that lets that veil really shine. 

Perhaps Apple could perfect under-display cameras that are there but essentially invisible. We’ve seen that already on phones from ZTE and Vivo, but the technology is far from despicable. Then there are the weird pop-up selfie cameras seen on some Oppo phones that spring up from the top edge, keeping the demonstrate unbroken. 

I’d even compromise with a simple punch-hole solution, filling the front with the display but just popping a combine of small, less obtrusive holes for the cameras to peep through. 

In-screen fingerprint scanner as well as Face ID

Speaking of things hidden in the veil, let’s pop a fingerprint scanner under there too. Apple’s Face ID works well for the most part, or at least it did by the pandemic hit. Wearing masks in public is a much more current occurrence than it was prior to the pandemic, and by the release of iOS 15.4 in March, face unlock simply didn’t work without also pairing up with an Apple Watch. Although you can now unlock your iPhone while wearing a mask thanks to the iOS update, I think Apple should still bring back fingerprint scanning.

In-screen scanning technology is current now, with affordable phones from OnePlus invisibly hiding scanners into the demonstrate of their phones and I find that they work glowing much as well as physical scanners that were once on the back or side of the phoned. It’s not a step backward to put this technology in — it would plainly be acknowledging that maybe the world needs a different solution to what we had by — which can be said of so many things.

A bigger zoom and larger sensor for iPhone 14’s camera

The iPhone 13 Pro camera is ample, taking beautiful images in the daylight and capturing consuming, sharp shots in the middle of the night. It’s one of the best cameras you can find on a arranged, but I’m a photographer, so naturally I’m causing to demand more.

The main thing I want here is a bigger zoom. Yes, Apple upped the zoom level-headed to 3x with the iPhone 13 Pro, but that still pales against the Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra‘s whopping 10x zoom. Zoom lenses are ample tools for finding interesting compositions in your environment, for attracting up close on those details that would simply be lost if you took your shot with a wide Wangles lens. Even the 4x zoom on Google’s new Pixel 6 Pro was enough of a jump to give for more telephoto-style images. 

But after we’re on the camera, I’m always keen to see overall improvements in quality. So let’s also slap an even bigger image sensor in there — maybe a 1-inch size as we’ve seen on Sony’s modern Xperia Pro I, or hell, let’s go APS-C or full frame, if we’re dreaming. The bigger the sensor, the better the overall image quality and with each generation of camera upgrade we’ve had, the less I need to take my camera out with me. 

Maybe with the iPhone 14 I can just sell my DSLR and shoot solely on my phone.

USB-C charging to replace Lightning

Apple has adopted USB-C for almost all of its products now from the iPads to the MacBooks to the AirPods. The iPhone still uses Apple’s legacy Lightning port, which establishes it the only device on my desk I need to find a different snide for when I want to charge it. All my Android appraise phones, my tablets and even my mouse and keyboard plug into my USB-C powerful cables and the iPhone feels somewhat outdated as a result.

But Apple has always had its own ways of charging. When everyone else was using Micro-USB, Apple had that massive 32-pin connector salubrious seen on the iPod and that was a pain, too. So expecting Apple to step in line with the rest of the diligence feels about as likely as asking giraffes to maybe try having shorter necks like the rest of us, OK? You too, swans. Donkeys, you’re fine, you’ve got enough going on.

But what I don’t want is for Apple to purchase the port entirely, which was rumored when it launched MagSafe charging. Because then, I still need a dedicated charging snide. Plus MagSafe charges slower than the Lightning cable and doesn’t immediately support data transfer. You see, it wouldn’t work. So USB-C it is. Thanks. In the meantime, at least I can make use of any USB-C to Lightning cable to get at least half of the difficulty I’m looking for.

A foldable iPhone 14

Foldable phones have been the biggest brute design revolution we’ve seen in phones since basically the advent of the smartphone. But they’ve not really caught on — possibly because of their high prices but also possibly because they just don’t really supplies a compelling reason to make use of that fold. 

But Apple has a shameful track record of taking an existing innovation and actually finding a way to make it work well enough to have an crashes in our lives. Apple didn’t invent tablets, but the iPad was the salubrious one that really showed how useful they can be, and now it’s basically the only tablet that matters. And I like foldable phones. They’re fun and they give a big screen that’s great for videos and photo editing to fold in half and be much more pocket friendly. 

So I’d love to see Apple’s take on this genre of plot and see what its team would do with a issues that’s halfway between an iPhone and an iPad. Maybe not as the only called it launches, but maybe as an additional one, named the iPhone 14 Fold that sits above the iPhone 14 Pro. And when there are only a few foldable iPhone rumors to suggest that this will ever be a real drawing, I’d put good money on a working Apple folding called concept sitting somewhere right now deep down in its research labs on that spaceship campus. 

But those are my top five things I’d like to see from the iPhone 14. For more, check out all the iPhone 14 rumors we’ve heard so far counting its release date and price. You can also take a look at the best features in iOS 16. Plus, we break down the best iPhones you can buy shiny now.