Stuff Verdict

The Apple iPhone 14 is a superb smartphone even though the minimal hardware upgrades take the shine off – potential purchasers will want to consider older models as a result.

Pros

Still an incredible smartphone

Brilliant battery life gets a bit better

Excellent camera system gets a bit better

Cons

Last year’s Pro hardware

Wireless charging slow by modern standards

No USB-C; it’s now well overdue

Introduction

There’s no denying Apple produces some of the best smartphones going. But iPhone development cycle has a problem – itself.

The iPhone 11 brought a superb night mode. iPhone 12 brought a big design change. The iPhone 13 then remixed that formula with battery life and display brightness boosts. But it looked the same, aside from a slight downsizing of the notorious screen ‘notch’ that houses the Face ID hardware and selfie camera.

The iPhone 14 is another reworking of the same idea, only without the Pro and Pro Max’s notch-replacing Dynamic Island feature. If you were looking for an iPhone 13 Mini, don’t bother – there isn’t one. And global currency changes mean that, while the range started at the same price points as the previous generation in the US, they were more expensive than their predecessors in the UK and Europe.