The iPhone 12 Pro will have support for recording videos in 4K resolution at 240 frames per second. Here’s how it works
With the iPhone 12 Pro and Pro Max, it will be possible to record 4K videos with the slow motion feature. The new top of the line smartphones that Apple will present in a few weeks will be able to handle 120 and 240 fps at maximum resolution. The current iPhone 11 stop at a 4K resolution at 60 frames per second.
These are, as usual, rumors but the source is authoritative: Max Weinbach of XDA-Developers, who talked about it on the YouTube channel EverythingApplePro. The same channel, to understand us, which first gave and then confirmed the news that the iPhone 12 Pro will have a screen with a 120 Hz refresh rate. Winbach is certain that the new iPhones will have this performance because he analyzed the code of the iOS 14 camera app, which will arrive right along with the iPhone 12. From the code, finally, it also emerges that not all iPhone 12 cameras will be able to record at 120 or 240 fps.
iPhone 12: how 4K slo-mo works
The change in the code of the new iOS 14 camera app is basically an update of what’s already in the current app and what an iPhone 11 can do today. The “slofies” feature, i.e. slow motion selfie, has been introduced on this model. You can then use it only from the front camera, with a maximum frame rate of 60 fps if we set the 4K resolution. If we want to record at 240 fps, however, we have to lower the resolution to 1080p. If Weinbach was right, then, with iPhone 12 and iOS 14 we will have an upgrade of this feature, which will go from the current 1080p at 240 fps to 4K 240 fps.
iPhone 12: the 120 Hz screen
In the same video published by EverythingApplePro it is also reiterated that the iPhone 12 Pro will have a screen with 120 Hz refresh and ProMotion technology, the same one already used by Apple on other devices for a few years. Another leaker, Ice Universe, confirms that 120 Hz will come at least on the iPhone 12 Pro and Pro Max.
Confirmation of the possibility of the new iPhones to be set to 120 Hz comes once again, but indirectly, from the iOS 14 code where a function was found to limit the screen refresh rate to 60 Hz when necessary. Which means that, normally, next-generation iPhones will be able to go beyond 60 Hz refresh rate.