It’s a small thing, quite literally, but it soon feels utterly natural in day-to-day use and although it doesn’t have a huge impact on usability, there’s a palpable sense of delight the first few times you see it in action. The iPhone 14 Pro comes, as you’d expect, with a new Apple chipset inside and this – the A16 Bionic – delivers performance gains that are precisely in line with previous iPhone iterations. It’s a hexa-core processor with a pair of performance cores running at 3.5GHz and four efficiency cores running at up to 2GHz and is built on a 4nm fabrication process. HDR, Panorama, Bokeh Mode, Night Mode, Portrait Mode, Pro Mode, Automatic Mode, Red Eye Correction, Burst Mode, Slow Motion, Time Lapse, Depth Auto Focus, Time-of-Flight Camera, Macro Customise your notifications so you never miss them. Choose a sensory alert, such as vibration or an LED light flash.

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Sound Recognition on iPhone sends you a notification when it detects an important sound, such as the doorbell or even a baby crying. Elsewhere, the display is thoroughly brilliant. It’s colour accurate, with an impressive Delta E of 1 versus sRGB, and it looks absolutely phenomenal when playing HDR video material, whether that be home movies shot on the iPhone’s Dolby Vision rear cameras or Dolby Vision TV shows on Disney Plus. Apple Retail UK Limited acts as the credit broker and not the lender. Pricing is before the application of a trade-in credit. Monthly pricing requires a 24-month instalment loan with 0% APR from Barclays Partner Finance, which is a trading name of Clydesdale Financial Services Limited, a member of the Barclays Group. Clydesdale Financial Services Limited is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (Financial Services Register number: 311753). Registered in England. Registered No: 2901725. Registered office: 1 Churchill Place, London, E14 5HP. Subject to application and status. Full terms apply. And, while not obvious, the iPhone 14 Pro also offers a whole host of camera improvements. There’s a 65% larger, 48MP resolution sensor for the main camera. The ultrawide sensor is twice as large, too, and it also has a wider aperture to allow more light in. The selfie camera at the front now has autofocus and a brighter aperture as well.

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Given how much work must have gone into the Dynamic Island and Always-On display, you might have forgiven Apple for leaving the display improvements at that. But that isn’t the case here, with Apple beefing up HDR courtesy of increased maximum brightness. Note that the newer version of this phone, the iPhone 15 Pro Max, is now available. Expensive = Better?

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Of course, the big new thing this year is that the old bathtub notch has been removed and replaced by two, more space-efficient cutouts: one for the infrared projector and camera and the other for the new selfie camera. The 14 Pro’s screen surrounds them above, below and in-between. READ NEXT: Our full round-up of the best smartphones available Apple iPhone 14 Pro review: Dynamic Island and Always-On display What Apple hasn’t done this year – again – is introduce USB-C charging, with the iPhone 14 Pro still featuring a Lightning connector on its bottom edge. The much-rumoured Touch ID sensor hasn’t materialised, either, while in Europe and the UK we still get a SIM tray. Only US users are losing that this year. There’s a whole raft of new and upgraded features on the video front as well. Last year’s Cinematic mode is no longer restricted to 1080p and can now be captured in 4K resolution. There’s the all-new Action Mode, too, which applies action camera-like stabilisation to video footage (more on this below). Finally, one of the most eagerly awaited changes for Apple loyalists. Both this Pro Max and its younger brother, the 14 Pro, become the first phones from the Californian company to say goodbye to what many people considered the worst part of the previous design. Instead, we welcome the so-called Dynamic Island, a new "window" of notifications that grows or shrinks depending on the number and type of notifications. In fact, it's something like a dynamic, pill-sized, floating notch...

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This doesn’t turn your iPhone into an action camera, of course (it’s not tough enough for that) and the GoPro can deliver its ultra-smooth video at the much higher resolution of 5.3K 60fps whereas the iPhone 14 Pro is capped at 2.8K 60fps. However, it’s an impressive feat nonetheless and the fact that it records in Dolby Vision HDR means as long as it’s viewed on a suitable screen, your video will look absolutely stunning. Apple iPhone 14 Pro review: Performance The price has gone up, which you’d expect in the current climate, but not by swingeing levels, and Apple has introduced a handful of fairly significant usability and safety improvements including Dynamic Island, the Always-On display, crash detection and SOS via satellite (although only in the US and Canada right now). Apple says the A16 Bionic also brings 50% more memory bandwidth than the A15 Bionic, which supposedly helps with GPU performance, while a revamped ISP (image signal processor) enables improved camera performance (see above). In the various benchmarking tools we use, the A16 Bionic delivers better results across the board but there’s nothing out of the ordinary here. Last year’s A15 Bionic delivered similar improvements in both GPU and CPU-related tasks, as did the A14 Bionic before that.

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Other upgrades include the widely anticipated move to the 4nm A16 Bionic chipset, car crash detection and a new satellite emergency SOS system (although this is only available in the US and Canada initially). The ultrawide camera exhibits slightly less of a dramatic improvement but there it is better, especially in low light where it captures slightly crisper, cleaner and less noisy images. It’s the new selfie camera that exhibits the least benefit, however, though the ability to autofocus should improve the ratio of hits to misses over time. The display has rounded corners that follow a beautiful curved design, and these corners are within a standard rectangle. When measured as a standard rectangular shape, the screen is 5.42 inches (iPhone 13 mini, iPhone 12 mini), 5.85 inches (iPhone 11 Pro, iPhone XS, iPhone X), 6.06 inches (iPhone 14, iPhone 13 Pro, iPhone 13, iPhone 12 Pro, iPhone 12, iPhone 11, iPhone XR), 6.12 inches (iPhone 14 Pro, iPhone 15, iPhone 15 Pro), 6.46 inches (iPhone 11 Pro Max, iPhone XS Max), 6.68 inches (iPhone 14 Plus, iPhone 13 Pro Max, iPhone 12 Pro Max) or 6.69 inches (iPhone 14 Pro Max, iPhone 15 Plus, iPhone 15 Pro Max) diagonally. Actual viewable area is less.

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Battery life claim refers to larger models. All battery claims depend on network configuration and many other factors; actual results will vary. Battery has limited recharge cycles and may eventually need to be replaced. Battery life and charge cycles vary by use and settings. See apple.com/uk/batteries and apple.com/uk/iphone/battery.html for more information. One thing to get out of the way early doors is that the 48MP sensor doesn’t produce 48MP images by default. Instead, like most other smartphones that employ high-resolution sensors, Apple uses pixel binning, combining four pixels into one to reduce the resolution to 12MP and, in theory, producing superior image quality. You can judge for yourself by the samples below but the difference in most circumstances is minimal. In good light, I noticed the iPhone 14 Pro captured colours that looked a touch less yellow and more neutral but detail levels in good light and low light seemed to be largely the same. It’s clear that a lot has changed in terms of componentry, however. The main camera has had a massive resolution boost from 12MP to 48MP and the sensor is also 65% larger than before, although note that the aperture is a slightly dimmer f/1.8 compared with f/1.5 previously. The 12MP ultrawide camera’s sensor is almost twice as big, too, and Apple’s TrueDepth selfie camera benefits from both autofocus and a brighter f/1.9 aperture.