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New iPhone 18 Pro leak highlights big upgrade for most popular camera

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Why This Matters

The upcoming iPhone 18 Pro's significant camera hardware upgrades, including a larger main camera module, could set a new standard for smartphone photography, impacting both consumer experiences and industry competition. These enhancements highlight Apple's focus on professional-grade features, appealing to users seeking advanced photography capabilities in their devices.

Key Takeaways

iPhone 18 Pro is rumored to offer an especially big leap in camera improvements, and a new leak points to the Main camera being a key highlight this year.

Much larger Main camera module coming in iPhone 18 Pro, says leaker

In recent years, Apple has leaned more than ever into the iPhone Pro line offering a truly “pro” camera system.

For this year, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman has been hinting at big upgrades coming. He said recently that iPhone 18 Pro will offer “some of the biggest camera hardware upgrades in the lineup’s history.”

However, based on the few rumored new features, it’s been unclear what might merit such a big claim.

Today though, Weibo leaker Fixed Focus Digital has a new post that provides some hints.

He says the iPhone 18 Pro line’s Main camera upgrade is “confirmed” and results in a more than 2mm increase in the “aluminum alloy back panel.”

In other words, the camera plateau may be getting even thicker this year than what had previously been rumored.

Why such a significant increase? In a follow-up post, the leaker says it’s due to an “Enlarged main camera module.”

Though we still don’t know full details, apart from a widely rumored variable aperture feature, it sounds like iPhone 18 Pro’s Main camera will have much larger internal components than iPhone 17 Pro’s camera.

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