The iPhone 18 Pro's big camera update is all about the small gains The Verge Apple debuts iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max apple.com Best iPhone 18 Pro preorder deals: Get a free phone from AT&T, T-Mobile, Visible, an...
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PUBLISHED WED, SEP 16, 2026 1:57 PM UTC • 6 MIN READ
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The Pro camera's major upgrade offers minor image quality improvements - whether or not you know what an f-stop is.
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Last week, Apple announced an iPhone unlike any it has made in the past. An iPhone that has seemingly already led several other phone manufacturers to pursue entirely different designs for their flagship products. A remarkably distinct device with the kind of "I can't believe they did that" software touches that Apple sometimes pulls off when it's at the top of its game.
Forward Outlook & Market Perspective
The 18 Pro and Pro Max are in the unusual position of being the second-most interesting iPhones that Apple is launching this year. The foldable iPhone Duo stole the show at Apple's launch event, but it's not arriving until next month. In the meantime, the 18 Pro cometh, and it is extremely familiar even with a totally new hardware feature in the camera.
It is so similar to the iPhone 17 Pro that it can use the same cases. Have you used an iPhone 17 Pro? Great, you now know what it's like to use the 18 Pro. There are no surprises, and unless you're a truly committed smartphone photographer, no hugely compelling reason to pick an 18 Pro over a 17 Pro if you can find one on sale. It's what we've come to expect from what was the flagship iPhone: excellent and utterly iterative.
Manual exposure controls in the native camera app, finally Marginal improvements to image quality Photographing sunstars with a smartphone camera rules
$100 more expensive than last year Manual exposure controls are tiny Higher storage tiers are quite pricey
Manual exposure controls in the native camera app, finally Marginal improvements to image quality Photographing sunstars with a smartphone camera rules
$100 more expensive than last year Manual exposure controls are tiny Higher storage tiers are quite pricey
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