iPhone 16 and iPhone 11 comparison: 5 reasons to make a breakthrough after 5 years

Apple launched the all-new iPhone 16 series this month with larger batteries, a new Camera Capture button, and more. The company calls them the first iPhones built for Apple Intelligence. People are holding on to their existing iPhones longer than everbecause smartphones are getting so much better. Today, I’m going to highlight the five big features you’ll gain if you finally decide to upgrade.

A much better screen: Super Retina XDR

Apple introduced OLED screens to non-professional iPhones in 2020. iPhone 11 or older, you will still be using an old LCD screen. With OLED, you’ll get a much higher resolution display, better colors, deeper blacks, and support for high dynamic range content.

In short, everything you look at will look much better with Apple’s Super Retina XDR display. It’s also much brighter, with the iPhone 16 supporting up to 2000 nits outdoors. iPhone 11 It has a peak brightness of 625 nits.

Personalized AI on your iPhone

Apple Intelligence It was introduced at WWDC in June, offering a completely new Siri experience with personal context. Writing Tools to improve your writing genmoji A new app that lets you create your own emojis ‘Cleaning’ feature To remove unwanted content from your photos and more.

Not all of these features are available at launch, but you’ll need an iPhone 15 Pro or iPhone 16 to use any of them. All-new Siri experience expected to arrive In the spring, it will be split into iOS 18.1 in October and iOS 18.2 in December, while everything else will be released before the end of this year.

Better battery experience

There’s a lot going on in the battery and charging department compared to the iPhone 16 iPhone 11. With the iPhone 15 series, Apple switched from Lightning to USB-C, providing a unified charging experience. Now you can use the same cable on your phone, laptop, and tons of other devices.

Batteries have also made great progress this year; iPhone 16 is tested for 5 hours more video playback than before. iPhone 11There is an increase of approximately 30%. Thanks to better battery life, you won’t have to worry about charging your iPhone as often.

Charging is also faster than ever; iPhone 16, 45W wired charging And 25W wireless charging (with MagSafe), whereas iPhone 11 it can only support up to 20W wired charging and 7.5W wireless charging.

Dynamic Island

Apple introduced Dynamic Island iPhone 14 ProIt replaces the traditional iPhone “notch”. It’s a network of hardware and software that allows users to interact with alerts, apps, and other forms of applications directly from the top of their iPhone. You can use it to control your music, answer phone calls, and any other interaction.

Dynamic Island also interacts with Live Events, so apps like Flighty can show your flight details right in the pill slot at the top of your iPhone.

Additional buttons

Two new buttons have been added to the iPhone since iPhone 11both the Action Button (in place of the mute switch) and the Camera Control “button”. Apple refuses to call Camera Control a button, but that’s what it is.

The Action Button continues to act as the mute button by default, but if you find you don’t want to change it often, you can set it to many other things like Focus Mode, opening the Camera app, turning on Flashlight, recording a video, and more. Voice Memo and much more. Also in iOS 18, apps will be able to create their own controls for both the Action Button and Control Center, so it’s a big step forward. You can read all about Action Button Here.

As for Camera Control, it’s a new toggle on the iPhone 16, giving users convenient and versatile new ways to use their iPhone cameras. When the button is pressed, the camera application will be opened from anywhere, and when the button is pressed from the camera application, a photo will be taken, and when it is held down, the video will start recording.

By default, sliding the button zooms. But when you half-press the button twice, a menu pops up to configure what you want the swipe action to do. You can configure between Exposure, Depth, Zoom, Cameras, Style and Tone. You can read all about what the Camera Control button does here: our summary.

Other minor features

• 48 MP camera with 2x optical zoom option
• Newer ultrawide camera that supports macro photography
• Better water resistance
• Sensor-shift optical image stabilization
• Cinematic mode video
• Action mode video
• Spatial photos and videos
• 5G support
• WiFi 7
• MagSafe wireless charging

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There are many great reasons why you should finally upgrade your system. iPhone 11 This is the year, especially if you’re running out of storage, don’t have enough battery life, or are otherwise finding yourself unsatisfied. If you don’t mind waiting another year, though, plenty of fun upgrades are coming next year with Apple’s next big iPhone refresh: iPhone 17Air.

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