{"id":265859,"date":"2026-06-06T10:10:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T14:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/06\/i-hope-the-iphone-18-pros-unnecessary-camera-tech-doesnt-make-it-to-the-iphone-20\/"},"modified":"2026-06-06T10:55:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T14:55:14","slug":"i-hope-the-iphone-18-pros-unnecessary-camera-tech-doesnt-make-it-to-the-iphone-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/06\/i-hope-the-iphone-18-pros-unnecessary-camera-tech-doesnt-make-it-to-the-iphone-20\/","title":{"rendered":"I hope the iPhone 18 Pro’s unnecessary camera tech doesn’t make it to the iPhone 20"},"content":{"rendered":"

I hope the iPhone 18 Pro’s unnecessary camera tech doesn’t make it to the iPhone 20<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.phonearena.com\/news\/the-iphone-18-pro-unnecessary-camera-tech-could-hurt-iphone-20-pro-sales_id180880<\/a><\/p>\n

Publish Date: 2026-06-06 10:10:00<\/a><\/p>\n

Source Domain: www.phonearena.com<\/a><\/p>\n

The iPhone 18 Pro doesn’t need to start a new fire. It just needs to keep the iPhone 17 fire alive until the iPhone 20 \u2013 the anniversary job \u2013 arrives in 2027.<\/p>\n

The phenomenal success of the iPhone 17 family is happening in a very interesting context. While the US’ overall smartphone market is declining almost 6% in Q1 2026 (compared to 2025), Apple’s smartphone sales grew 1.3% year-over-year at home. <\/p>\n

And we’re in the middle of the RAMpocalypse storm. Hey, I hope<\/span> it’s the middle; fingers crossed that this isn’t only the beginning<\/span>.<\/p>\n

Because of it, both the vanilla Galaxy S26\u00a0and\u00a0the iPhone 17<\/span> Pro arrived with a $100 price hike last September. But not even Apple’s new $1,099 price drove people off: Apple really hit a gold mine with the iPhone 17<\/span> series.<\/p>\n

We got meaningful upgrades both on the outside and inside and people responded. We voted with our wallets.
\nDreaming about a repetition of that same phenomenon with the iPhone 18<\/span> is unreasonable.<\/p>\n

The iPhone 18<\/span> series is shaping out to be a nice, safe, boring and predictable upgrade over the iPhone 17<\/span>. There’s nothing wrong with that \u2013 real upgrades happen once every two years (or more).<\/p>\n

But Apple is about to make a mistake if it pours unnecessary upgrades on the iPhone 18<\/span> Pro.<\/p>\n

Miss me with that variable aperture!<\/h2>\n

<\/p>\n

\"Unofficial <\/p>\n

Unofficial iPhone 18 Pro renders. | Image by Macworld<\/p>\n

Word on the street is that the iPhone 18 Pro Max (and iPhone 18<\/span> Pro, for that matter) might adopt a variable aperture for their camera systems.This, if rumors hold true, could cause prices to go up once again, since a variable aperture requires more hardware.<\/p>\n

I hope this doesn’t happen and if Apple manages to keep the $1,099 starting price for the iPhone 18<\/span> Pro by NOT installing a variable aperture, that’d be great.<\/p>\n

Beyond money, there’s the actual question of practicality.<\/p>\n

A variable aperture is…<\/p>\n

Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I hope the iPhone 18 Pro’s unnecessary camera tech doesn’t make it to the iPhone…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":265860,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/m-cdn.phonearena.com\/images\/article\/180880-wide-two_1200\/I-hope-the-iPhone-18-Pros-unnecessary-camera-tech-doesnt-make-it-to-the-iPhone-20.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[120],"tags":[80,81],"class_list":["post-265859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-iphone","tag-iphone-17","tag-iphone-18"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265859"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265859"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":265861,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265859\/revisions\/265861"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}