One of the strongest weapons of iPhones has long been their photo system, which is why many Apple users buy them repeatedly. Apple is of course very aware of this fact and is trying to gradually improve the cameras of its iPhones to offer the best possible photography options. And it seems that next year we should see iPhones 18 Pro (Max) will receive a truly fundamental upgrade, which will quite possibly be the most fundamental in recent years.
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According to the very reliable analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, he wants to Apple in 2026, the new iPhones will again be a little closer to DSLR cameras. Specifically, they want to deploy variaa variable aperture, thanks to which the user could, in very simple terms, adjust how much light is let through the lens into the camera sensor, thereby affecting the depth of field and so on. Currently, iPhones have a fixed aperture, which is fully open, so that light falls on the sensor in maxAll effects associated with depth of field are then created primarily in software and although their quality is very decent, with the "physical" variaOf course, this solution cannot be compared to a standard aperture. So perhaps AppHopefully, his vision will be brought to a successful conclusion and the photography capabilities of iPhones will really skyrocket next year.
Provariable aperture was already offered years ago by Samaung and probably other manufacturers as well. Nakonec they removed this function because it has little practical use. Reducing the amount of light to the sensor that mobile phones have is nonsense and given that most people, for example, can take portraits with a nicely blurred background, closing the aperture does the opposite, everything is sharp. This could make sense at longer focal lengths, but there is a small sensor and worse light output in general. I would rather focus on the quality of the optics as such.