Apple’s 2020 iPhones will look somewhat different from their predecessors but one model will stand out in particular. And now, mistakenly, Apple just confirmed that.
Apple’s plan to release its smallest ever, bezel-less iPhone has just been uncovered in its new iOS 14 beta release. And it is the evolution of a six-year-old software feature in iOS 14 which gives the game away.
The culprit is ‘Display Zoom’. It is an accessibility tool that allows users to enlarge the user interface. In addition, it goes to make text, icons, and buttons easier to see.
How Apple achieves this is actually a hack: each iPhone simply displays the interface of the next smallest model with the same aspect ratio.
For example, the 19.5:9 iPhone Max models with their 6.5-inch displays show the interface of the 5.8-inch iPhones.
Meanwhile, the 16:9 5.5-inch iPhone Plus models show the interface from a 4.7-inch iPhone 8. It drops down to a 4-inch iPhone.
iPhone 12 Shows With Its New Features
But the 5.8-inch iPhone X, iPhone XS, and iPhone 11 don’t support Display Zoom because there is no smaller 19.5:9 aspect ratio iPhone. Until now.
The newly released third beta of iOS 14 allows these phones to drop from their native 1125 x 2436 resolution to 960 x 2079, which 9to5Mac was able to model and it produced, you guessed it, a 5.4-inch iPhone.
And out of that, there are two major takeaways. Second, this rubber stamps the life of Apple’s super portable iPhone after leaks from the eye-opening battery had done all but that. Second, Apple looks set to increase its iPhones entry-level pixel density dramatically.
The iPhone XR and iPhone 11 are fitted with 326ppi LCD screens. But, this new resolution on a 5.4-inch iPhone 12 results in around 425ppi, as well as OLED.
If there is a negative, and it’s a small one, the way Apple makes Display Zoom work means the 5.4-inch iPhone 12 will now be the only iOS 14 model not to support it. And zoom capabilities on a display this small would undoubtedly be useful.
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