The Coolest Features In The New Apple iPhones

This year's new iPhones have arrived.

- Rob Marvin

The iPhone XS, iPhone XS Max, and iPhone XR build upon the iPhone X, all coming with edge-to-edge displays, Face ID, and a bevy of powerful cameras and processors.

The new flagship smartphone line doesn’t feature as many dramatic changes or game-changing features as in years past. But combined with the rollout of iOS 12 on Sept. 17, the devices have plenty to offer consumers who want to upgrade. Read on for a rundown of the most notable new features and improvements the XS, XS Max, and new entry-level iPhone XR.

Bigger, better OLED screens: The iPhone XS has the same size 5.8-inch OLED display as the iPhone X, but Apple says the phone’s Super Retina display packs more pixels and 60 percent greater dynamic range than its predecessor. The massive iPhone XS Max sets a new display size record with a 6.5-inch display made up of 3.3 million pixels.

A12 Bionic processor: Most of the new phones’ performance improvements stem from this 7nm chip, which has 6.7 billion transistors and an 8-core dedicated machine learning engine to analyze neural network data and figure out whether to run processes on the CPU, GPU, or neural engine. Apple said the A12 can process 5 trillion operations per second, compared with 600 billion operations with the A11 chip. All of this gives you significant performance bumps, with apps opening 30 percent faster while using less power.