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Re: iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max

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Can't I just point my camera at an AI generated image? And it will get the stamp of authenticity?

It would be great if they could use the LiDAR scanner to sign a depth map of the scene in front of the camera. It would show if you photographed a flat image.

They could use the camera aperture to take a second photo and calculate blur.

Re: iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max

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I love that it has a feature to prove images came from the real world: > Users can now prove the authenticity of a photo taken on iPhone 18 Pro models with Apple Reference Image, powered by the new sensor in the Main camera that can sign every pixel it sees. When a photo is taken in the new Reference mode, the camera captures signed sensor data that Private Cloud Compute develops into an unalterable reference image.5…

Finally. Android phones have been shipping with C2PA since last year, so it's great that the final holdout has capitulated, though with its own set of nonstandard tools.

https://c2paviewer.com/articles/samsung-galaxy-s25-c2pa

https://security.googleblog.com/2025/09/pixel-android-truste...

https://c2paviewer.com/supported-devices

Re: iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max

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Can't I just point my camera at an AI generated image? And it will get the stamp of authenticity?

It would be great if they could use the LiDAR scanner to sign a depth map of the scene in front of the camera. It would show if you photographed a flat image.

The sensor already uses phase detection autofocus. You can create a depth map out of it. iPhone X used its dual cameras and that phase data for depth maps.

Re: iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max

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> The last Mini was iPhone 8 sized It was smaller than the iPhone 8. It was slightly thicker (0.01"), shorter (by 0.27") and narrower (0.13"). And it had a bigger display despite being overall smaller. It was bigger than the 5, though.

maybe I'm misremembering the dimensions of the 8. I did, however, take a series of photos comparing the Mini to the SE- and the packaging of the 6 (I think I gave the phone away but still had the box). https://imgur.com/a/iphone-mini-vs-iphone-5-vs-iphone-6-case...

https://www.apple.com/iphone/compare/?modelList=iphone-13-mi...

The SE was the one that shared the 8's dimensions, the Mini was smaller than both. That Mini appears to be in a case, so the comparison photos aren't as useful as they'd be otherwise.

(Also, it looks like I couldn't do arithmetic earlier or typo'd the number, the Mini is 0.12" narrower, not 0.13").

Re: iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max

#165

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Can't I just point my camera at an AI generated image? And it will get the stamp of authenticity?

It would be great if they could use the LiDAR scanner to sign a depth map of the scene in front of the camera. It would show if you photographed a flat image.

Pretty sure it does that already.

Re: iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max

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No I need better phone app developers. The fastest phone has the same issues. New phones are just as sluggish. And, it's a phone , there's not going to be fast networks everywhere, and a whole generation of poor developers was raised to believe that the network was always present and always fast. And on the iOS side, Tahoe inserts all sorts of overdone, ridiculous animations that slow down phone interaction, but dela…

Not that you aren't correct, but Tahoe is a MacOS release, not iOS. I assume you mean iOS 18 (the version before iOS 26)?

Tahoe is macOS 26. The corresponding iOS version is iOS 26

iOS 18 corresponds to macOS 15 (Sequoia)

Re: iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max

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Seems like at this point each year the biggest new feature is a new color.

It works with normies.

My wife just preordered an 18 pro. She’s the family photographer and is still on a 128gb iPhone 12, so it’s time for an upgrade and she fell in love with the cherry color.

She bought the 12 instead of the more appropriate 12 pro years ago because she loved the purple that she couldn’t get with a 12 pro.

Edit:typo

Re: iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max

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Did they just announce the ultimate solution to image authenticity online? Instead of proving some image on some platform is not AI or severely edited, we can simply prove it was original by verifying unforgeable signature made by a camera / microphone baked into each image produced by it. And of course in future it could be done for video and audio! This would be absolutely HUGE!

From what I understand, the feature renders a signed reference image from raw sensor-data "alongside the final image".

Still no solution if the image posted online is not that reference image or that reference image is actually a photo of an AI picture.

Re: iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max

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I doubt any phone battery is lasting 5+ years. But I can say modern iPhones are pretty easy to swap the battery on. They designed it so the back plate gets removed to open the phone rather than the screen. No more risk of cracking the display.

>I doubt any phone battery is lasting 5+ years. Just coming up to five years on mine and it is still at 87% capacity.

iPhone 11 coming up on 7 years old in December, still at ~85% capacity.

Really it mostly depends on how heavily you use it, and maybe to a lesser extent charging habits (charging slowly, not charging to 100%, etc).

Re: iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max

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I doubt any phone battery is lasting 5+ years. But I can say modern iPhones are pretty easy to swap the battery on. They designed it so the back plate gets removed to open the phone rather than the screen. No more risk of cracking the display.

>I doubt any phone battery is lasting 5+ years. Just coming up to five years on mine and it is still at 87% capacity.

That is genuinely shocking to hear. You have to be like 3+ sd above the mean. Do you know how many charge cycles you have? I recall that most batteries need replacing after 300-500 cycles.
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