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iPhone Generations

In this page you will find all iPhone generations with the most popular iPhone feature added with each new iPhone. I will emphasize on the features that Apple introduced to push the sale and make that generation iphone the product of that year.

You will see that with each new iPhone generation apple would introduce something new that was either new to the world, new to smart phones, or new technology that was never seen before on another hand held devices. The idea is of course to market the new iPhone generation and encourage people with previous iPhone to upgrade to the new iPhone.

Of course with every new iPhone, the screen size and iPhone screen resolution, the hardware, the processor, the camera, and the internals are always in a continuous improvement. You will see speed boost of at least 2 time or or more from one iPhone the next generation iPhone. This will apply in all apple iPhones.

But I will be focusing on those unique features that are new to the industry. For those iPhones that really didn't offer something unique, I will just call them having new internals which would imply that this iPhone generation didn't offer something really unique compared to the previous generation.

Also as you move from one iPhone generation to another, the same features of the previous generations are usually carried over to the new iPhone plus some new added unique features.

When the feature is fist introduce to that specific iPhone generation, you will see it for that iPhone, but I will not repeat it as you would assume that apple wouldn't usually remove a feature but would kept adding new features to the new iPhone.

For example, if Apple introduced water resistance capability to iPhone 7, then you would assume that the next generation iPhone 8 will also have that feature and so on.

iPhone Xr: October 26, 2018

6.1" screen size
Lower screen resolution of 828 x 1792 points
326 (PPI) Pixel Per Inch
No force touch (force touch removed from iPhone Xr only)
Comes in colors

iPhone Xs and iPhone Xs Max: September 21, 2018

Faster internals
Pixel per inch = 458 PPI
Improved Face ID
Same design as iPhone X
Same 5.8" screen size as iPhone X
New 6.5" screen size for iPhone Xs Max at 458 PPI

iPhone X: November 3, 2017

New design
Face ID
Edge to edge display
No home button
New gestures
Pixel per inch = 458 PPI

iPhone 8 & iPhone 8 Plus: September 22, 2017

Same design as iPhone 7
Same as iPhone 7 with new internals
4.7" and 5.5" same screen sizes as previous iPhone generation

iPhone 7 & iPhone 7 Plus: March 31, 2016

Water resistance IP67
Remove the mechanical home button and replaced it with a force and touch sensitive button with taptic engin feedback.
Remove the headphone jack and replace it with lightening port headphone for audio.

iPhone 6s & iPhone 6s Plus: September 19, 2015

Apple introduced force touch (on the screen so when you apply pressure to the screen you can get menus and more options, similar to a right click on a computer mouse.)
Second generation Touch ID
Same screen size as previous iPhone generation
Faster internals