Apple's Fusion camera

The new camera on iPhone 16 with multiple personalities explained

There's a new phrase is being used to describe the iPhone 16 series rear camera: the 48MP Fusion camera. The resolution? That's not new.

But the other word, Fusion, is. Apple uses the term Deep Fusion for its computational photography processing, which helps dramatically improve low-light shooting in particular. But it didn't describe the iPhone 15 as having a Fusion camera in the previous generation. So what's up? Is 'Fusion' used in part to make it seem the iPhone 16 gets more of a camera upgrade than it really has? Sure, probably. But there's also some substance behind the name. Potentially.