Apple iPhone 11 review
Apple iPhone 11 has two 12MP snappers, both wide
The iPhone XR featured just one camera in its back — a 12MP shooter with OIS and bright lens. The iPhone 11 adds a second camera — the new 12MP ultrawide snapper.
The iPhone 11 features the same wide and ultrawide 12MP cameras as the Pro models at the back, it just lacks the zoom snapper. It has the same selfie arrangement at the front, too.
So, the iPhone 11 has an all-new dual camera with 12MP sensors. The main shooter has large 1.4µm pixels, wide 26mm f/1.8 lens, optical image stabilization (OIS) and Dual Pixel AF. Night Mode is available on this camera, and Deep Fusion should come with an update, too.
The new member of the family is a third 12MP sensor with 1.0µm pixels sitting behind the 13mm (120°) ultra wide-angle lens. There is neither stabilization nor autofocus for this camera.
The selfie camera got an upgrade, too. The 3D TOF snapper stays for Face ID, portraits, and various Animojis. But the actual selfie snapper is now a 12MP shooter behind wider 23mm f/2.2 lens — up from 30mm lens on the previous iPhones. Apple kept the old view though — if you shoot in portrait — it will simulate 32mm lens view and save a 7MP selfies as before while rotating the iPhone in landscape uses the full 12MP resolution and FoV. There is a virtual switch for this view, so while it is kind of automated, you can always change it manually.
The new main snapper on the iPhone 11 enjoy expanded ISO sensitivity, there are new min/max exposure times, too.
The cameras always talk to each other, so when you switch between them, they already know the correct focus, exposure, and tone mapping settings. This applies for both stills and videos.
The first thing anyone will notice is the viewfinder — you can see outside of the viewfinder thanks to some proper camera calibration, which allows seeing what will be left outside of the frame in real-time. This change may not sound that important at first, but we can confirm it really makes for a more immersive camera experience.
The viewfinder
But if you enable Photo Capture Outside the Frame and/or Video Capture Outside the Frame, you can reap the benefits from this awesome calibration later in settings. The new camera app automatically captures what is outside the frame of the main view with information from the ultrawide snapper. Then the Photos app will automatically suggest you grab a wider shot if there were people cut from a group photo or parts of a building were left out, and similar features.
This extra footage requires extra space, so we’d imagine the 64GB model will be hardly enough, but the good news is if you don’t use the extra info, it will be deleted after 30 days. At least you don’t need to think about that, too.
Shooting a group photo
It works mostly as advertised — if you open Photos and have a person cut, you will see a new icon popping at the top right corner and after a second you will see the improved photo or video. You can either keep it this way — automatically adjusted, or you can hit this button and revert to original.
Photos app • Auto edited • Auto crop • This is out-zoomed of the original crop • Settings
Note that you can disable the automatic adjustments from the Camera settings and instead you will be able to choose the crop later from the new Editing mode. Just go there to Crop, tap the multi-crop icon and see all this new processing power in action.
Crop out of frame 13.7MP sample — auto adjusted
And by the way — this is Crop Outside Frame is not exclusive to photos, you can do it in videos too and apply similar edits.
We have to admit that features like this Crop Outside Frame are what often distinguished Apple from the rest — the software magic was quite the thing at the past, but it vanished for a few years. And we are happy to see Apple is returning to its roots and hope to see even more of the new processing power harnessed in the future.
And speaking of power, the Crop Outside Frame for videos makes use of the two snappers at the back, but some third-party apps like Filmic can use all three snappers (including the selfie cam) to capture and save video simultaneously. And you can do that in up to 4K at 60 fps. How about that?!
Other new features coming thanks to the new A13 Bionic chip is the Night Mode and Deep Fusion.
The Night Mode icon pops up automatically when a low-light occasion presents itself, and it will take a pseudo-long-exposure shot, handheld of course. You will see the seconds suggested next to the Night Mode icon, but if you tap on it, you can change the simulated long exposure or altogether disable it. Usually, it’s between 1 and 3 seconds, but sometimes the phone allows you to go for up to 30 seconds depending on the environmental light or the lack of it.
Auto Night Mode • You can control the exposure
Night Mode is available on the main shooter only and does not work on the ultrawide snapper.
Deep Fusion will be released as a software update — it’s Apple’s version of HDR+. It takes 4 photos before you press the shutter, 4 when you do and then 1 long exposure. Then it picks the best shots and fuses them together.
An upgraded version of Smart HDR is available on all snappers for Photos, and we left it on as it is by default, but as most of the camera settings — it is also tucked away in the Settings menu. It’s high-time Apple moves these on the viewfinder or at least integrate them within the camera app itself.
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Apple iPhone 11 review
Display
Quite a few things have changed since the iPhone XR, but the screen is not one of them. The iPhone 11 packs the same Liquid Retina 6.1″ IPS LCD screen with 326ppi and a giant notch on top.
The actual screen resolution is 828 x 1,792 pixels, which is not bad, but not high either. In our experience, pictures and videos do look great on this screen, the text is sharp enough, and most of the time, we didn’t mind this 326pp density. But if you put an iPhone 11 Pro next to the 11, you’ll know you are using a panel of lower quality.
Another thing the iPhone 11 screen doesn’t offer is HDR10 or Dolby Vision — the contrast ratio required by these HDR video standards is only achievable with an OLED screen it seems.
The proprietary True Tone adjustments, however, are available. This is an automatic white balance correction using a six-channel ambient light sensor. The algorithm corrects the white balance according to the ambient light making the whites and grays rendition more accurate.
Just like on the other new iPhones, the touch input has the same 120Hz polling rate for zero-like touch latency. The screen refresh rate is still capped at 60Hz though.
Apple promises a maximum brightness of 625 nits for the iPhone 11 and screen contrast ratio of 1400:1. We measured 644 nits of maximum brightness and combined with the not so dark blacks, the contrast ratio turned out 1500:1.
| Display test | 100% brightness | ||
| Black, cd/m 2 | White, cd/m 2 | ||
| 0.428 | 644 | 1505 | |
| 0.425 | 700 | 1647 | |
| 0 | 805 | ∞ | |
| 0 | 660 | ∞ | |
| 0 | 679 | ∞ | |
| 0 | 389 | ∞ | |
| 0 | 803 | ∞ | |
| 0 | 453 | ∞ | |
| 0 | 643 | ∞ | |
| 0 | 525 | ∞ | |
| 0 | 743 | ∞ | |
| 0 | 353 | ∞ | |
| 0 | 574 | ∞ | |
| 0 | 366 | ∞ | |
| 0 | 789 | ∞ | |
| 0 | 571 | ∞ | |
| 0 | 605 | ∞ | |
The display on the iPhone 11 has an excellent color accuracy — we measured an average DeltaE of 1.1 and a maximum deviation of 2.4 against sRGB. The iPhone 11 supports DCI-P3, and it will automatically switch to this gamma when DCI-P3 content is sent to the screen.
One fantastic thing is that the iPhone 11 display keeps a similar level of accuracy even while you are lowering the brightness down to as low as 2.3 nits.
Battery life
The iPhone 11 is powered by a 3,110 mAh battery — a slight improvement over the XR’s 2,940 mAh and about the same as the new iPhone 11 Pro’s. The phone supports wireless charging (Qi-compatible), and it can also fast charge with 18W chargers thanks to the USB Power Delivery support.
Unfortunately, the iPhone 11 ships with the old 5W Apple charger and it will replenish a mere 18% of the empty battery in 30 mins. A full charge could take as much as 4 hours.
If you opt for Apple’s or other compatible 18W fast charger — it will recharge about 55% of the iPhone 11’s depleted battery in 30 min.
We completed our battery test on the iPhone 11, and it did great. The iPhone 11 can do about 18 hours of 3G calls, 15 and a half hours of web browsing on a single charge, or you can watch videos for about 18 and a half hours. Adding the efficient standby to the mix returned an excellent battery endurance rating of 94 hours — up from 78 hours on the iPhone XR and better than the 86 hours of the iPhone 11 Pro.
Our battery tests were automated thanks to SmartViser, using its viSer App. The endurance rating above denotes how long a single battery charge will last you if you use the Apple iPhone 11 for an hour each of telephony, web browsing, and video playback daily. We’ve established this usage pattern so that our battery results are comparable across devices in the most common day-to-day tasks. The battery testing procedure is described in detail in case you’re interested in the nitty-gritty. You can check out our complete battery test table, where you can see how all of the smartphones we’ve tested will compare under your own typical use.
Speakers
The iPhone 11 has stereo speakers, just like the iPhone 11 Pro and XR. The first speaker is at the bottom, while the earpiece acts as a second one. The output is very balanced, and the only thing we noticed was the earpiece lack in bass compared to the bottom primary, but its loudness seemed similar.
Apple says these speakers support spatial audio and subjectively the sound indeed seems less directional and more, well, spatial when compared to other phones.
Our tests confirmed Apple is using a proper loudspeaker for the earpiece and it is loud. The 11 Pro Max and the 11 Pro models offer a bit more bass from its top tweeters, and that makes them even more balanced than the iPhone 11 model.
Nevertheless, the sound is pretty rich, the bass is deep enough helped by the bottom speaker, and after playing multiple songs, videos, and games, we consider the iPhone 11 speakers to be among the better setups you can get in a smartphone today.
All three iPhone 11s pulled a Very Good mark in our loudspeaker test, just a couple decibels shorter of the Excellent mark. But having this spatial audio do make the new iPhones sound (subjectively) louder than this test suggests.
| Speakerphone test | Voice, dB | Music, dB | Ringing | Overall score |
| 70.8 | 72.3 | 76.0 | Very Good | |
| 68.9 | 74.0 | 76.2 | Very Good | |
| 68.1 | 73.8 | 79.5 | Very Good | |
| 71.2 | 73.8 | 80.7 | Very Good | |
| 71.5 | 75.7 | 78.9 | Very Good | |
| 71.2 | 76.8 | 80.6 | Excellent | |
| 70.1 | 72.8 | 85.7 | Excellent | |
| 76.0 | 74.6 | 79.0 | Excellent | |
| 76.9 | 74.8 | 79.3 | Excellent | |
| 70.9 | 73.8 | 90.9 | Excellent | |
| 79.8 | 77.4 | 91.6 | Excellent |
Audio quality
Apple no longer includes a Lightning to 3.5mm audio adapter in the retail package of its iPhones, which means that the quality of the audio output you will be getting is entirely dependent on the adapter you get or the DAC built into your headphones if they are of the Lightning port type.
We performed the test using the official Apple adapter, so our findings will only be relevant if you go with that one. Clarity turned out excellent with an active external amplifier, although stereo separation is not ideal. However, there’s virtually no degradation with headphones, meaning that you’d be getting some of the most accurate output in that case.
Loudness was only average though and some way behind the flagship standard these days. Still, that would make little difference to anyone but those with super high impedance headphones and a taste for deafening volume levels.
| Test | Frequency response | Noise level | Dynamic range | THD | IMD + Noise | Stereo crosstalk | +0.05, -0.16 | -94.2 | 93.9 | 0.0017 | 0.015 | -80.8 | +0.14, -0.04 | -94.2 | 93.8 | 0.0010 | 0.018 | -77.6 | +0.04, -0.02 | -90.5 | 90.4 | 0.0014 | 0.013 | -93.0 | +0.14, -0.23 | -90.4 | 90.3 | 0.0046 | 0.211 | -47.0 | +0.03, -0.04 | -92.2 | 92.0 | 0.0015 | 0.0079 | -92.7 | +0.06, -0.03 | -91.9 | 91.7 | 0.0020 | 0.037 | -77.0 | +0.02, -0.01 | -93.6 | 93.5 | 0.0010 | 0.007 | -85.2 | +0.31, -0.26 | -92.1 | 91.9 | 0.0060 | 0.302 | -55.1 | +0.03, -0.01 | -93.0 | 92.6 | 0.0023 | 0.021 | -89.6 | +0.10, -0.05 | -92.0 | 91.4 | 0.0034 | 0.106 | -74.8 |
Apple iPhone 11 frequency response
You can learn more about the tested parameters and the whole testing process here.
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